I'm finding it's a very difficult task right now to unabashedly share from the imagination whatever comes. Similar to meditation and putting aside all those thoughts, I'm constantly observing myself and putting aside the doubts and judgements. Letting the ideas form by following them through on paper is highly educational. It's shocking how the mind's eye and my ability to draw that visual are in stark contrast from each other.

In any case, here is some sort of robot snale, some mechanical disc-thing, and tire treads? Yeah...

Whew! How long since the last post? Too long, probably. I'm almost keeping up with the daily commitment of drawing each day. Currently the only real roadblock to posting any sort of content is what I deem actually finished...though I think the clock should be that factor, and regardless of a completed work, should be published. So...let's roll through a few recently pieces and sketches ranging from casual ideation down to speed drawing. The last two were each under 60 seconds as tests.

 

Pixelmator has always been a bit of an unsung hero for what it manages to pull off at a below-$100 price tag. I decided to forego Photoshop to force myself to work with limited masking and filter abilities. The goal here was to create a photo-realistic Nike+ Sportsband that was lying on my desk.

So, some basic stats: roughly 4hrs painting and nit-picking over details, drawn on a Wacon Intuos 3. It's worth noting that this was my first ever digital painting, so I'm not unpleased with the end result (but I hate the straps!!). An important lesson for me though, is to work in bigger resolutions. This bit me hard, as I had also started at 600x600 resolution, and worked inside that...which doesn't offer much for scalability, so I ended up with a very small drawing.

Time to nurse the sore wrist.