Let's draw!

After reading on Stuart Immanoneneoenonen's site a few days ago that he likes to ink with Pentel color brushes, I got one, and it's really cool. Much better than the Steadler Pigment Liner B that I used to use for simulated brush action.

I want to get a great big scanner, like tabloid size, so I can draw bigger and still scan it easily.

I want to see some of your pics, Mr. Rags!

oilyrags.blogspot.com

tharr yarr

If I actually HAD a scanner, I'd update a lot more.

I think you should post some draws too, Abbott (and lurkers.)

Here's what I did at "The Draw" DJ sketch night in Downtown LA last night:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2475710074_939ed57243_b.jpg

I am sooo out of practice in life drawing but it was soooo fun.

Also, what materials do you use? I use a 2B, sometimes HB pencil and Strathmore pad.

Most of my life drawing happens on the bus. There's a Dr. Sketchy thing once a month, though, and I'm thinking of checking it out.

I nearly always have two or three hand-sized sketchbooks with me in my man-bag. I like the moleskine plains, the Miquelrius graph-paper, and just recently got a kind of horse-hide bound one that doesn't have a manufacturer's stamp. Lately for pencils I've been using a 2h mechanical pencil or a 6b wooden pencil. I also have a papermate 'tough stuff' eraser stick for working negatively. Lastly, I gotta chunk of soft charcoal that I've been carrying around for ages, but I'm scared to unwrap it 'cause of the mess. I talked a little about my inking tools upstairs, although I misspelled 'Staedler.'

I went to a Dr. Sketchy thing on Saturday. It was fun, and three of the short sketches I made weren't totally shaming. I'll scan and post them on my drawblog after work.

I also drew the sickest thing I've ever made, called "Freudian Nightmare" which I will post on my blog and in the monster manual livejournal community. It is not safe. Not safe for work, not safe for home, not safe for school, not safe for pregnant or nursing women, not safe for men age 25 and older, not safe for children, just plain NOT SAFE. I am simultaneously repelled and delighted by it.

Cool, I alway wanted to go to Dr. Sketchy when I lived in Brooklyn. I did not know they had Dr. Sketchy's in other cities including L.A. Thanks!

The Draw is happening again this Wednesday, too. If I make it, I'll put more sketches up.

Yeah, they're like the McDonald's of burlesque themed live-drawing nights at places with a liquor liscense now.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/oilyrags/sparkleoncouchwhole500x.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/oilyrags/sparklewithfanwhole500x.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/oilyrags/sparkleonchairwhole500x.jpg

I think the one with the fan was 10 minutes and the other two were 15 minutes. Drawn fairly large (11"x17" pretty much) so I had to scan 'em in pieces and stitch 'em together in PS.

The first is like Dan Lacey. kind of.

I like how you do shading.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2021/2380885011_1b11fbd798_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/2420043128_231edbb125_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2125/2456333230_a4e19602c0.jpg

Wow! Awesome!

Thank you so much. Moar Here

What Abbott said!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2455785064_c7edbd22f9.jpg

i made that drawing

...at the bar, in 10-15 minutes, wif beer(s)

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5821/snitcycleup3.jpg

My dog on a bicycle.

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/4456/brainds4.jpg

More typical of shit in my sketchbook.

i love your dogs front and back legs Abbott. that second picture has the face of Tony Thatcher :(

animate that last one so that it also has a boner ok thx

Here are some doodles I did during classes:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3655/bonerq7.jpg

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1442/princeso1.jpg

(Didn't have time to finish shading this one. Sorry Prince.)

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/8193/treeii9.jpg

i made this for a bike race

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2041/2507350176_58b6b7e1c9.jpg?v=0

DUDE THAT RULES.

thankx :D

...that tree looks....familiar?

???

':/

[:/

I'm gonna have nightmares now of cycling sharks :(

no he's friendly it's cool

it's that eye...

oh man now i want to make more drawings

Do it, they're great.

Just please don't do a gingerbread man, i really fucking hate them, i can barely look at 'em.

Freak me out they do!

Wow, so many cool draws posted overnight!

I love "I want to eat this bone" and "thumbprinty outline of a squid or something maybe" and "various animals riding bikes" especially.

I love drawing!!!

I was at the student bookstore at lunchtime, and I saw a brand of pen filled with correction fluid I haven't seen before. A good way to apply white marks is my Holy Grail of drawing tools, so I got it. It sucks, just like all the others I've found.

Anybody know a good way to do this?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2009/2509411205_78df9f57bc_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2509419951_20852cf1b3.jpg

A jell, a jell, a jellyfish

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/2509432039_ee863e7fcc_o.jpg

i like your drawings, kerm!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2510439998_95afcf869c.jpg

bummer drawing :-/

this is the SECOND time he's been high-fived by this shark, and the shark doesn't even know he's acting like an asshole

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/8193/treeii9.jpg

I love this!

<3 all these draws

great stuff!

Oh yeah - I forgot to post this horror earlier. It's NSFW, as I said. I don't know if I reached the heights (?) of asian-shitting-cumming-dicknipples.jpg, but if you click, I think you'll agree I gave it my best shot.

<a href=http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/oilyrags/webreadyfruediannightmarecopy.jpg>;Ladies and gents: The Freudian Nightmare</a>

Ladies and gents: The Freudian Nightmare

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2515569298_db764bc8c6_o.jpg

Awesome work Kerm

Kerm + Abbott == King + Queen of ILX drawers.

OTM they's awesome!

Are those last two you posted finished, Kerm? They look kinda work-in-progressy, with the inconsistent use of tone and so on.

(And I should have mentioned that it is indeed very fine work.)

Hey, you've identified my signature style!

They're doodles, about as finished as they'll probably ever be. I'm working harder on standalone finished pieces that aren't smudged to death and aren't drawn on surplus tractor feed printer paper.

Also, thanks everybody. You'll only encourage me.

I'm the same, most of my work is found on lined office paper. If I try to re implement the ideas onto finished higher standard paper I always lose something in the translation.

Just wow, Kerm. Are you using this talent in any professional way?

(not to undermine everyone else's efforts in this thread; it's all tremendous work)

Beth _______ should post here 'cause she's good but she's probably collecting yellow stones on the seashore.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/oilyrags/jellyroll001webready.jpg

Mr Jelly Roll.

Started as just for fun, but my friend Jeff liked it so much it's going to be his birthday present as soon as I remember to frame it.

the shading around the right eye should prob. be darker.

Some excellent stuff on this thread.

This Sunday afternoon I will attend my third meeting of the Austin Sketch Group. It turns out that Sam Hurt of Eyebeam and Peaches, Queen of the Universe is a regular. This is very exciting to me, although it probably means nothing to anyone else in the entire universe.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/S4301065-1.jpg

It's one of those fuzzy goggly eyed things you get at conferences and whatnot.

It's not what you know, it's who you know.

Congrats, I think?

Thanks!

congrats!!! ilx has talent!

kerm, yr drawings are blowing my mind!