Sophisticated Self-portrait

A speed painting of sorts, I suppose. This self-portrait was completed in about an hour, yet it taught me a lot. I think I'm having one of my "artistic growth spurts". :D

Nostalgia! 2007

While cleaning my room in preparation for dorm move-in day, I stumbled upon a lot of old sketchbooks. Here are some sketches from 2007.

Flint WIP

From the initial mess of a sketch to the end product. This is the process behind a digital painting of a character belonging to Sarah Schanze, whose sketchblog can be found here. Click here to see the finished product.

My First Wallpaper.

The 1600x1280 version of my first desktop wallpaper. It isn't a sketch, but it was completed about as quickly as a sketch normally would be. ;)

My First Desktop Wallpaper

The pencil sketch for my first attempt at a desktop wallpaper.

Coal of TMK: Long Time No Update!

This is Coal, the main character of Thistil Mistil Kistil, a webcomic by Sarah Schanze.

I've been following TMK for a while now, and it's one of only four webcomics that I really, really love. If you have any interest in Norse mythology at all, I highly recommend it. The story's great, and the art's great, too!

Soul

Concept sketch for the spiritual leaders of the Kalari tribe from my first novel-in-progress.

Tattoo Final

Tattoo Take 2

Tattoos

Behold my first try at tattoo design!

Rust and Wire

This one was inspired by a picture of rusted metal, some kind of wire/tubing, and some gravel.

Noblewoman Colored

A quickly colored version of the previously posted sketch.

Noblewoman

A random noblewoman. I was itching to draw a fancy dress.

The Abomination Queen

A possible, very minor, character that might show up in my first novel-in-progress. She's an "abomination"- one of the members of a royal line who fails to display all of the traditional traits: pure black and white hair, black lips, pale skin, wide eyebrows, and black eyes. I'll be coloring this digitally soon to post in on deviantART.

Bounty-hunting Space-pirating Smuggler!

*points to title* This is the beginning of an epic design. I couldn't help myself. When this concept came up in a conversation, I had to doodle it. You'll see where I scribbled the idea in the top left corner.

More Characters Gone Cartoon

More original characters in a more cartoon-ish styled doodle

The Finest Ladies of Novarr

Three side characters from my second novel-in-progress: Cori Dawson the Mercenary, Willa Teague the Tavern Worker and Cyra Blair the Trouble-making Horse-woman. 

A few days ago the lovely person who inspired Cyra claimed one of my digital paintings had a Disney-esque look to it (hardly an insult, I think ;) ). For fun I went with the idea and came up with a massive page of doodles with many of my novel characters going full-out cartoon. This is a quick digital doodle based on a few of the original Disney-inspired doodles.

Flowers

An oldie, but a goodie- this quickly-drawn continuous line drawing went in my AP portfolio as an example of my unique mark-making style.

Eternal Love

Protagonist Linria and Andorion, two character from my novels-in-progress

The Beginning

 Behold an introduction to my sketch blog! Grigori, the merchant, a very minor character from my second novel-in-progress.

As I approach the beginning of my college days as a studio art student, all I can think about is art. I'm constantly looking for opportunities to get my art out into the world and find new inspiration. The muse tends to strike at the most boring and inconvenient of times, but it seems it can't be denied. Therefore I tend to carry around some kind of sketchbook at all times. This leaves me with loads of little doodles, concepts, and unfinished nonsense which may or may not end up covered in commentary from friends. Sometimes I love my doodles, and other times I hate them. Sometimes they appear to be nonsensical, and then I realize a week later that my nonsensical doodle led to the development of a character I can be proud of.

Regardless of the kind and quality of my doodles, they collectively lead me to a certain sadness because I find myself with a massive collection of almost-art that's hardly ever seen. I find myself having no idea what to do with what I've produced after having spent hours and hours drawing. . .

Well, no more!

The things you'll find here may not be worthy of my deviantART gallery, my dA store, or even Facebook, but hopefully they will be entertaining to you. I'm very excited to finally have a place to house my beloved doodles, and I look forward to sharing all kinds of sketches and such as I proceed through the artistic gauntlet in the near future.