Little Donkeys

So this week has been kinda crappy for me.

On Saturday after a wonderful lunch and afternoon with my cousins, I started to feel a lot of pressure in my head and sinuses. Apparently I got a bad sinus infection that then traveled to my ears. I don't know how many of you have had ear infections recently, but it's literally like torture! I can't hear anything out of my left ear but muffled sounds and once the antibiotics kicked in (on tuesday, because of course I got it over the weekend) it's like a clicking, popping, gurgling symphony happening in there. Oh, it also feels like someone is pouring water down my ear canal every second of every day.  I think I might be going insane.  I'm praying this things clears up quick because it is the most uncomfortable ailment I've had in a long time.

Needless to say, I haven't been as productive as I wanted to because it's extremely difficult to sketch while laying flat on the bed. hahaha I think all my drawings would come out leaning like the Tower of Pisa.

However, I did manage to get some gestures and studies of donkeys so that I could put together a character for one of my projects.  Here is one page I fleshed out and cleaned up a bit.

10/25 Doodles: Pandas!

Who doesn't love the squishy face of a panda?

The other night I tagged along with my mom to a meeting and brought my sketch book with me. Sometimes its good to just get away from the every day space you occupy and sketch someplace else.  Tho I was technically present at the table during this "meeting",  I was lost in a world of watercolor pencils, new black pens, and little roly poly pandas. :)

I desperately need to get out of the mindset that some doodles are not "good enough" for a nice sketch book because I'm currently having an argument with myself over sketching in my nice moleskin.  Part of me doesn't want to mess it up and the other part of me is saying, "Don't be stupid, it's a SKETCHBOOK!"  These turned out pretty well and I think I just need to get over myself and DO IT!

New Doodles!

Hi Everyone :)

This week marked a very important event in the life of my cousin. She graduated from HS with a full Presidential Scholarship to Cal State Long Beach (My Alma Mater! Whoo Hooo!) So Proud of her hard work and accomplishments.

I did a medium size "doodle" of a wise ol' owl for her present. It's a running theme with us ;) Anyway, I did some acrylic color washes over the drawing on canvas board and then used a bamboo pen with India ink to doodle on the top. So much fun, and I'm totally going to do more of these. A lot of people doodle fabulous art and I don't want to take from their work by doing the exact same thing. I plan to use more of an illustrative take on these. We'll see how they turn out!

Next, I made a doodled card out of colored card stock. This was super easy and got the idea from Artsyville   Here's the link to her Doodle Cards

Hope you guys go over there and try out this cool idea. She's got a ton of other fun things to try as well. :)