Old Sketch

It's fun for me to see where I have come from and the improvement I have made over time, so I share this as just a reflection of that.

Sagging Objects and Hybrids

Homework Challenges 2 & 3...
and 3 Take-2...

Challenge 2: Draw something that looks like it is melting or sagging

Well, I feel like I melt or sag without my coffee in the morning, so this is my coffee cup.


Challenge 3: Draw a hybrid of a fruit and an animal

I first thought of making the apple be the bellybutton of a baboon or ape type creature, but as you can see with the stem it didn't work too well. I thought it was extremely funny, but did not communicate what I wanted it to communicate, so I tried again...


Take-2: A fish with the bottom of the apple as the eye. I think it is not nearly as funny, but the intent is communicated better.


...you can decide.

Game Piece

Here is a game piece and card from the Charades for Dummies Game. (I've never played it.)

Here is the ninth sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in
_X_ Links in a chain
_X_ Cracker or potato chip
_X_ A ceramic animal
_X_ Something new you purchased this week
_X_ A game piece from any game

CREEPY!!

Homework Challenge 1: Draw fingers on feet and toes on hands...

It looks really strange and creepy I know, but it was fun anyway.

Illustration Friday: Citrus

Here's my version of the citron...I didn't realize the name came from the idea that this was the fruit Adam and Eve may have eaten in the Garden of Eden. At least they named it after Adam and didn't blame it all on Eve like some people do now...


I guess I'm really liking greens and olives in my color scheme (see last week's IF entry.)

What Came First? The Chicken or the Egg? Or the Beer?

The first is a ceramic work that was done by a student...it looked enough like a nest with eggs, so I figured I could draw it as a "ceramic animal."

I haven't bought much lately so the second is a beverage I bought last night.


Here are the seventh and eighth sketches in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in
_X_ Links in a chain
_X_ Cracker or potato chip
_X_ A ceramic animal
_X_ Something new you purchased this week

Non-Objective Drawing

This is an older drawing, but I just came across it, and thought I would post it.

Tasty Little Cracker

Here's the sixth sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in
_X_ Links in a chain
_X_ Cracker or potato chip

Face Drawing

Chain Links

Here's the fifth sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in
_X_ Links in a chain

Change Bowl

Here's the fourth sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in

Illustration Friday: Neighbor

I created this illustration right after I finished substituting for a Biology class. We watched a video on Gregor Mendel and genetics.

It was a subconsious connection because I didn't realize that I had been influenced by the video until I finished the illustration.

Bottle Still-Life

Here's the third sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle