End of Year Sketch Dump

Here are more pieces of random sketches done on class paper!

More stuff...

I finally have a scanner again! (years later, lol!) Scanners sure have come way down in price since I last had one. Most of these sketches were made on recycled paper from my college classes.

Macaroni Backgrounds

Lately I've been into repeatable designs and patterns that would be useable for backgrounds or for cloth. These are a few backgrounds for a project that I've been working on that has to do with macaroni and cheese.

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Portraits in the dark

I drew these at the beginning of October. How time flies! They are portraits of speakers at a conference. I drew each one in +-15 minutes and in very dim light, so I couldn't really see what I was doing, so some of them look better than others. Overall it was a good exercise.

School Doodles

I was throwing away some old school papers and didn't get very far before I realized some of them had some doodles on them. And then a few other sketches I did while I was at work on scrap papers.

little bitty pretty one

The past few weeks have been really difficult. If there's anything I'm learning from it, it's when to say no and know your limits. Sometimes you just can't do everything on your own, so don't kill yourself trying. I have a feeling that things will probably get worse before they get better. But after that, there is only one direction to go and that is up.

Anyway, there is a sketchbook that has been circulating around the store where I work with each employee adding decorating a page or two with their own artwork. The book is huge, probably about 4 inches thick. Much of what others have done in it is super nice, so when it was my turn to take it home, I knew I had to create something extra special. At first I drew, inked and colored a picture but then I decided it looked really bad and I didn't want that representing me as an artist. So I took out the page and inserted my own with a new sketch I did in a couple of hours. But it turned out great and it was five times better than what I had done before.

I'm back!!

My scanner has died, may it rest in peace. But I guess that's what I deserve for not using it enough!

^This picture has some great potential.

^This picture is like seventies love or something...

^I tried to draw my sister, but her eyes look kind of scary I think. But she has really bright eyes so I was trying to capture that sparkle.