Spring is here!

Go get a coffee with a friend in an outdoor patio :D

Stylize from observation?

I want to get to the point in where I can draw a model from observation in a stylized way and have fun with it. Here is another try.

watercolor figure painting

Watercolor is hard. Plus, a bit f a failed attempt at stylization. Live and learn.

I just need a safe place for this, for now

Early sketches for a character design project. I will post more in if there is progress about it.

I want to learn cartooning

This is a sketch that I decided to color, in small chunks from time to time, while working in other stuff :)

Back to sketching figure drawing

Finally! back to painting figures from observation. This one was a quick sketch from session with a new group I found, just a few blocks from my home in Quincy MA.

back to gouache

80% of the work I do every day at Pearson is with Illustrator, 15% Flash and about 5% Photoshop. Even in a recent book illustration job I did there, where I thought I would be able to go more painterly in my work, I was asked to do digital vector artwork. So this weekend of snowstorms and laziness, I decided to grab some simple sketches and try color them goauche, which I haven't touched since school. Suffice to say it was half fun and have pain, but it was meant to be a no-stress thing.

Starting next saturday I will start a 5 week long figure painting pose, so no more lady cats for a while :P