samantha learns to draw

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Long day in the snow

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Llama love

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For my dad’s birthday, my brother compiled a bunch of oddly poetic, sparse emails that my dad has written over the years. I illustrated a few of them and he made them into cards.

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Sketching some faces from the Sartorialist blog.

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I started fostering a bun named Chipotle. He’s probably the ugliest bunny I’ve ever seen. I love him.

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Went to the zoo with some sketching buddies. I need to take a figure drawing class for animals (especially big cats; none of my abysmal sketches of them made the cut).

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Self portrait in watercolor.  I thought it was missing something so I added those red dots and swirlies but honestly they kind of detract and are unnecessary.

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Silly watercolor practice.  This shit is hard.

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Trying to start a self-portrait series.  My series attempts are inevitably doomed to failure.

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Made this for a benefit auction we had at work for the Sweet Iris campaign, which is a fundraising effort started by a Pixar family whose daughter, Iris, is suffering from a rare genetic disease called GM1 Gangliosidosis.  They have been incredible at raising the money needed to move research forward, and the event was really inspiring to be a part of.  So much great art and kind generosity.

Working on this made me realize how much I miss just sitting down and doing art.  It’s the first finished piece I’ve done in yeeeaars--I forgot I could even take something to this level of completion.  I’ve never been one to have the patience to work on something for weeks, but a good 20-hour chunk of pure, intense drawing can do wonders for the soul.

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Made this for a coworker’s 20th work anniversary.

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Crappy photos of an assignment I did for an Intro to Graphic Novel class I'm taking.  We had to repurpose the "Jack and Jill" story in two-page comic book format.  I'm not happy with the character designs and they're not consistent, and the drawing also progressively gets worse because it was 4am by the time I finished and I am a spritely young thing no longer.

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This is basically what happens every time I decide to draw.

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Daily Spitpaint

Topic: Lights On

Time: 30 min

My original concept was much more elaborate, but meh.