Wonderfully Busy

As you can tell by the sporadic nature in which I've been updating this blog I have been spectacularly busy. I love being busy. When I started this blog I was very sick and couldn't even imagine that I'd be this swamped with work. Now, I'm so busy I haven't even had time to do anything in my sketchbook! This past month or two I've been taking my first art class, 2D Design. It's kept me busy with lots of work. Oh, and as an aside, I sold my first piece of artwork. Anyway, here's the artwork. I just want to say that my sketchbook size has gotten larger (11x14) and my scanner isn't that large. My full page pieces will need to be photographed and then I only have my iPhone to take pics with so just bear with me until I get a higher quality way of uploading my work.

Rocket Engine (classwork)

Texture Study (classwork)

Boxers

Cowboy Artist

Fisherman

Thirsty

Stance

I'm Alive But My Computer Isn't

I wanted to drop in and say that I'm still around. I feel pretty awesome at this time but something horrible happened! My computer is no more. I'll be setting up this old laptop so I can scan some more art in but my new wacom is kinda useless right now. Digital art is on hold. I'll be back to updating by the end of the week hopefully. Here's a bunch of art to make up for my absence. Actually, it's the rest of what I have uploaded. Enjoy. Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

Cartoon Cats

Heart

Robot

Robot Freddie Mercury

Screamer 4

Skull

Animals Inked

Bookshelf

Climber

Hay Bales In a Field

Hay Bales In a Field (Inked)

Coastal

Bone

Leaves 1

Leaves 2

Red Mask

Primitive Dock

Sea of Wheat

Treant

Treefolk

Warbles

Weasel

Oh Happy Day!

So as you can tell I'm not on extended leave and did not get the organ I was waiting for. I titled this post "Oh Happy Day!" not because I got a transplant or rather didn't, but because I just ordered a Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet and it will be here in 2 days. I absolutely cannot wait to move back into digital art. I say "back into digital art" because I used to do lots of digital art. I took a year off to improve my drawing skill because I was unhappy with my abilities. I spent that year getting back to basics with mostly just a pencil and sketchbook. I'm in the middle of my 7th sketchbook and I'm finally happy with my basics enough that in addition to traditional work I feel comfortable getting back to digital work as well. Drawing with a mouse would be too difficult though and this Wacom tablet will help me more fluidly transfer my skill. Anyway, here are two pieces like usual.

Screamer 2

Screamer 3

These are two more pieces in my screamer series. I went through a large stretch of depression due to my chronic illness and whenever it hit me like a bag of hammers I drew things like this. I often felt like screaming but instead I drew these. I still draw them when I get depressed as they have become therapeutic although I draw them much less than I used to. I'm not as depressed and hardly feel the need. Anyway, I can't wait for my tablet to arrive. I'm so excited. Thanks for reading about my brainsplosion.

Just FYI

I have a quick update for today. I may have another long absence coming up. I'll know more by tonight but I'm second in line for the transplant I need and the hospital has me on standby. It's bittersweet really. I want this transplant so bad but I'm terrified. Anyway, if I don't update for a couple months I'm in the hospital recovering. Here's a bonus sketch.

Screamer 1

 A quick gesture drawing using a soft pencil, probably 6B or 8B, of a person screaming. Being chronically ill can make you feel like screaming sometimes. I've never thought of it this way but this is one of a series of self portraits really. If I get a liver they'll soon turn into people smiling. Thanks for reading about my brainsplosion.

I'm Back

Sorry all for my recent absence. As most who have read my blog know I'm chronically ill. What most of you don't know is that I'm on several transplant lists. I recently had some complications with my spot on the list in the farther of the two regions I'm listed in as well as some medication substitutions. I had a couple of my meds changed because they have reduced side effects. Just this passed week I went to my second region of listing and had a horrible experience with traveling. My supposed one hour lay over was delayed due to storms until I was in the airport for six hours. Then my plane was in line on the runway for an hour and was eventually forced to take off heading south even though it was supposed to take off heading north west. Anyway, enough of my complaining and excuses. Here's a long overdue post with a bonus sketch to make up for lost time.

Horn Study

Demon

Coral Rock

Biker Cleavage

Blitz Helion

So here goes a quick description of each piece. The first is a horn study that I did in order to make some realistic looking horns on demons and other creatures. This was actually done chronologically after the second piece. I sketched the demon first (source image was from a magazine) and then I did a horn study. Coral Rock is a sketch I did while in Networking class. It was hard to listen to the professor drone on and having a sketchbook handy kept me awake. The source image came from the internet but I drew it without any of the people in it. The next piece was sketched and then inked. It was one off my first ink attempts and certainly one of my first figure attempts. I spent a lot of time on it. The last piece is the picture for the magic card Blitz Helion. I sketched and then used some really cheap colored pencils. With the quality and quantity colored pencils I have now it would come out a lot better. That's it for this post. Thanks for reading about my brainsplosion.