Doodle 093 - Something Different

I spent most of my evening running around town trying to score some Halloween clearance decorations, yup, I am a bargain shopper, after ransacking a couple of stores we came back home aaaand... I really didn't feel like drawing at all... I was having the hardest time getting myself to sit down and draw, never mind just coming up with something.

So I begrudgingly sat at my desk and started to doodle... line after line, I covered a couple of pages with nothing but nonsense until I came up with this:

The Transport - blue and black mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 20 mins.

 I normally don't draw ships of any kind, so I thought it would be fun to try something different.

Tomorrow we will be traveling again, so once again we won't have any interactive doodles for this weekend, but I do have a theme you guys can start to mull over.

I need you to describe me an interesting character, example:

Name: Character X
Sex: Female
Age: Early 50's
General features: Mrs X is a humble yet strong woman who keeps a vegetable stand that specializes on selling lettuce, any type of lettuce you can imagine from every corner of the world.
She always wears a yellow apron and has a penchant for skirts and flowery blouses.
Her hair is long and brown with curls that she ties into a quick bun. She wears little to no make up most of the time.
She has gentle eyes, an slightly crooked nose and always wears her favorite pendant in the shape of an owl.

I just made that up, but you can think of people you know or have seen that are interesting.

This exercise will help me to try and draw different characters based on your descriptions. It is a rather tough exercise, so I'll just take 3 at random, but don't post it right up, take your time to come up with a character you would like me to draw and next Friday you guys can tell me all about it.

Doodle 092 - Happy Halloween!

We are 3 months in and I am very proud to say not a single day has been skipped so far, hurray!

I hope that those of you who celebrate Halloween are having a good holiday, I had a lot of fun today!

First, here is what I drew today:

Happy Halloween! - blue and black mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox. 15 mins.

It is a steampunk witch on her way to the All Hallows Eve ball!

And now for a treat for anybody who has asked me for prints of my work:

The Drawing Saudade Red Bubble Shop is now open! Go here to check it out.

Right now I only have 4 pieces up, mostly because I still need to scan and format other doodles, if you have any requests for any of my pasts doodles, please let me know in the comments and I'll do my best to get them up on the site as soon as I can.

Doodle 040 - First Interactive Friday Doodles! (part 2)

I hope everybody enjoyed the weekend, mine, as always, went very fast.

To help us say goodbye to the weekend and hello to yet another Monday, I finished the other 5 requests. I haven't really drawn some of these animals before, so it was a learning experience and a lot of fun. Also, I love google's image search lol, no better reference tool out there.

First, Kara's "Labradoodle in a biker style trench coat with biker boots!"

Biker labradoodle - Blue and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 15 mins.

And now for Nathan's request, a "Velociraptor pirate". I must note, drawing dinosaurs when you are scared of them, not as hard as you might think, overall since they look so tiny on the screen. Still, sort of a squeamish type of thing lol

Velocirarrrrptorrrr - Blue and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 20 mins.

Colin requested a "Steampunk Platypus", this one was a lot of fun since I love platypuses.. platypi?

Steamy Platypus - Blue and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 15 mins.

 Gina requested a "Puppy in toe shoes", haha! So cute:

Puppy Ballerina - Blue and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 15 mins.

And finally, MichelleH asked for a "seal as a fisherman", yes, it has a bubble pipe hehehe.

Seal Fisherman - Blue and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 15 mins.

 I am glad you guys liked this game, so I will make it a regular thing and ask for different combos during the weekends. Thanks for being so awesome and helping me out, I truly appreciate it.

Doodle 034 - Dragon*Con inspiration

Well,Dragon*Con is over. I won't be home until late Wednesday, so you guys still have a bit more time to run away before my recap hehehe, but for now, I just wanted to draw a couple of things inspired by my last day at the con.

One of the events I attended was the steampunk masquerade. I didn't get to meet Jen there as Lady Vadore (we eventually caught up thought), but I was so blown away by some of the costumes there, that today at the vendor's rooms I kept having to talk myself out of buying pretty (and expensive) things.

One of those shiny things was a beautiful hat, I probably will get one online when I figure a costume, but for now I just drew a quick sketch inspired by it.

The other drawing was a beautiful fox leather mask... I'm kinda kicking myself for not buying it, so I drew a more detailed design of a mask I would like to make one day.

I also spent a big chunk of my time with professional comic book artists and watching them work and how much dedication they put in their craft, really made me want to draw more and more.

Doodle 010 - Sorceress

Fridays are good days for me, I don't have to rush my drawings as much, I can think about them a bit more, and not having the stress of an impending day at the office frees up some space on my brain.

Today I used SenshiStock's stock image as a pose reference. devianArt can be an awesome place for finding inspiration and ogle at incredible artwork, I will caution that there is a whole lot of nudity out there that might make some audiences very uncomfortable, but one can adjust personal filters to navigate the galleries.

Sorceress - 20 mins aprox, graphite and mechanical pencil on plain moleskine.

I first laid the base for this drawing by drawing a quick wire frame using a photo as a reference, then I played around with the costume design, expression, props, etc. I was surprised at how incredibly easy it came to me and it sorta looks like a collection of different steampunk cosplays I have seen over time mixed all together in one place.

Not gonna lie, I would love to wear something like this.

Doodle 007 - Shaken, not stirred

After a good night's sleep I feel well enough to attempt more doodles.

I made this without reference materials and just going wherever my lines wanted to go. As a side note, I was listening to melancholic music while drawing these, so they might look a tad wistful. 

Drawing without reference. 15 mins, graphite and mechanical pencil on plain moleskine notebook.

Figure drawing without reference following random line of action. 5 mins, graphite and mechanical pencil on plain moleskine notebook.

Drawing without reference. 15 mins, graphite and mechanical pencil on plain moleskine notebook.