TS - Frog Warrior - Progress Update

Frog Warrior - Ink Pen, Aquarelle

A quick update to the Frog Warrior picture I started a few days back. Right now it's drying again, final details will come tomorrow.

TS - Folded Paper v.5.0 - from 26.02.15

Folded Paper v.5.0 - made with Adobe Line

TS - Tree Study - from 25.02.15

Tree Study - Ink Pen

A quick study of different types of trees I got to see from the train.

BP - Bulldog

Bulldog - Pencil, Marker

BP - Raven

Raven - Pencil, Marker

TS - Rauten v.2.0 - from 23.02.15

Rauten v.2.0 - Pencil, Ink Pen, Marker

TS - Rauten v.1.0 - from 21.02.15

Rauten v.1.0 - made with Adobe Line

An late update from 21.02.15.

Travel Break

I'll be traveling for a couple of days and likely won't be able to upload a picture every day. I still plan to make a picture every day and so there will be a larger post coming once I'm back.

TS - Frog Warrior - progress

Frog Warrior - Ink Pen 

Frog Warrior - Ink Pen, Aquarelle

Just a quick progress update on this picture. It's clearly not done yet but I'm tired and will continue on it another day.

BP - Frog Warrior

Frog Warrior (Draft) - Pencil

I was surfing the internet earlier this afternoon and found the below picture of a frog sitting on (riding?) a type rhinoceros beetle. The pictures is just amazing and got me the idea of the little frog riding into battle. So naturally I started sketching and playing around with it.

We'll see where this picture is going in the next few days.

 

TS - Meeting Squares

Meeting Squares - Colour Pencil, Pencil, Ballpoint Pen

Another doodle from a meeting.

TS - Mademoiselle Café

Mademoiselle Café - Coffee, edited with Tayasui Sketches

Another coffee inspired (or is it fuelled?) picture.

I am not super convinced of all the proportions but I kind of had to work with the blotches of coffee on the milk foam I had.

TS - Industrial Landscape

Industrial Landscape - Marker, Ink Pen

Sometimes the "ugly" industrial areas of a city can have a certain charm to them. This one purely from my mind, however, everyday I drive past a water tower very similar to the one in the picture. Something about the view at it from the overpass I go over catches my eye every time again. Unfortunately I can't really stop to take a picture or sketch from there. So for now pictures of it from my minds eye need to suffice.

TS - Portrait

Portrait - Ink Pen, Marker

TS - Coffee Surfer

Coffee Surfer v1.0 - Coffee, added to with Adobe Line

 A little something that was made with the help with my daily coffee...

A little while still I would have claimed that I don't feel the effect of caffeine and only enjoy the taste of coffee. However lately I do notice that I'm incredibly tired in the morning until I have had a coffee. It might be time to go on a bit of a coffee withdrawal.

Too much coffee or not, sometimes interesting shapes "happen" he n my coffee and I use them as an excuse to incorporate them into something.

Coffee Surfer v.2.0 - Coffee, added to with Adobe Line

TS - Meeting Notes (Compasses)

Meeting Notes (Compasses) - Pencil, Ballpoint Pen

I have been particularly unmotivated these past weeks to really engage with the pen and paper and I think I now know why. I just don't have the time to do everything I want every day and these past weeks I've been very happy to read comic books* **, make tasty dinners and go to bed early. All three things that are certainly worth spending my time on but unfortunately come at the cost of the daily sketches. So until I'm out of this phase I might not upload a picture every day.

* especially Tin Tin
** Which I take out from the library for my students...

TS - House on a Hill

House on a Hill - Ink Pen, Marker

For tonight only a very quick sketch, nothing fancy.

TS - Midnight Moon

Midnight Moon - Ink Pen, Marker

Based on a super old picture of mine which, unfortunately is buried somewhere in my old stuff from before university times even.

TS - Folding Paper v.4.0

Folding Paper v.4.0 - made with Adobe Line

Other than the last ones of this kind, this one wasn't modeled on an actual piece of folded paper but was completely created in my head.

NP - Not Today

I'm somehow not in the mood to draw tonight. Tomorrow again.

TS - Scyphozoa Study

Scyphozoa Study - H4 Pencil

TS - Circle Training 03.02.15

Circle Training - Pencil

Plain and simple, a quick practice to keep up creativity. I mentioned it way back in July of last year. Today it took 2 + 2 minutes to complete 17 of the 24 circles.

I'm thinking of maybe doing this every day to see where it will bring me.

TS - Coloured Strips v.2.0 - updated

Coloured Stripes v.2.0 - Aquarelle, Ink Pen

The image is a bad one with the glare but the original is quite nice. Have to see if I can get a better image tomorrow when the daylight is still around.
Update: I just uploaded a better quality image that I took earlier today when the sun was still out.

TS - Stripes

Stripes - Aquarelle, Pencil

Apparently I am pretty bad at getting back into the the swing of drawing/sketching every day. I would pledge to be better in the future but I also hate over promising (as I have done here in the past). So I'm just going to leave it at this.

About this picture though: It was drawn last night, just before the power went out. I only started with the coloured lines which were my starting point. The pencil lines came later as I found that my markings on the paper for measurement purposes kind of looked nice. It gives the whole thing a technical look.