#sketchbook sharing

[yizydraw]

Sketchbook Doodles || How I Fill Up A Sketchbook #02

[randomeevee]

This is my school sketchbook, which I named Tilly. The edges are wearing out a bit, it has been rained on multiple times, and a green pen broke and got ink on it in some places. Also, I covered it in stickers. However, this is a tough little sketchbook. Please send in a page number in my ask and I will scan and post that page. Come see what trash I have been sketching in here during lunch, after tests/quizzes, during art class, and after school.

[randomeevee]

Page 10 of my Sketchbook for @stars-swords-and-mystery (From top to bottom) - Cat Kirby?? - Vaporeon saves a drowning Vulpix - Eevee and Vaporeon

[randomeevee]

Late night sketchbook sharing

Send me "Page number" and I'll roll a number on a random number generator. Whatever I get is the page I share in my sketchbook. Send it in pls

[freyaloi]

Freyaloi is creating Artwork, Videos, Comics, Illustrations | Patreon

Daily Sketchbook Uploads for Patrons!

Hey Patrons! I am uploading daily, scans from my sketchbooks. Sketchbooks are a supper important tool! They help you see how much your grown, develop ideas, and many other things. Come join me and i’ll show you mine. :D

Remember, You can join in the fun for as little as $1 a month!

Any questions, feel free to ask!

[erikjohnsonillustrator]

Princesses and Power Rangers

In preparation for Wednesday’s Sketch Day I did a few practice runs to make sure I could produce drawings in about ten minutes. I featured these sketches on my table so that people would see what kind of art I do as well as inspire their choices.

 The Fourth and Eleventh Doctor were originally going to be a part of my Sci-Fi Father's Day Card

Deadliest Predators: T-1000 and T-Rex! 

I tried to lure in the family demographic with these doodles of the Power Rangers or Elsa and Olaf from “Frozen” (effectively finishing a project that I’d started back in January)

Strangely enough it was Dave Andres sitting right next to me who kept getting the Disney Princess requests. Maybe because I was the closest to the entrance he got the spill over from my line. 

[erikjohnsonillustrator]

Comic Book Issues

The Michigan Comics Collective has mounted a Kickstarter to put together their collaborative anthology book which will spotlight local artists. Learn more here.  They're also making plans to put together another book for next year and are looking for new material so I'm in the process of brainstorming ideas. I haven't draw comics in a long time, but I do have a love for sequential storytelling so I sketched a few rough ideas for short stories that parody elements of certain sub genres.

Private Eye Phil Noir meets a Femme Fatale who literally has trouble written all over her.

Rex Relic searches the jungle for a lost city of treasure, only to fall of a cliff into a rapid river and waterfall.

I want a produce a story thats 3-4 pages at most (because I recognize my limitations and tendency to get hung up on the details) However I'm having trouble getting past the idea stage. While Rex has more development what with the fall into the river, that doesn't really come to any sort of satisfying conclusion.  Over the past couple days I've been trying to come up with story ideas and I'm tired of trying to force something into shape and just want to get back into drawing anything without a deadline crunch or project guidelines and let something develop naturally. 

[erikjohnsonillustrator]

What I learned from Fish Farts

After spending two months working on my previously mentioned but undisclosed "Spongebob Squarepants" project, I wanted to get back on the horse with something more personal which eventually became "Party of Two". However that also took about two months to complete. I just had this feeling that if no one was going to tell me what to do then I had to start turning out projects faster in order to "earn my keep" in the world.  Immediately I jumped into this idea I came up with of a cute little kitten hiding under the bed blankets, just letting a big one rip. 

  "I haz the Tuna Toots."

It didn't take long to realize that I was rushing into this without thinking it through. This idea was simply that, an idea, and it had very little story to it. Plus something like this isn't really "me". This gave me pause to reflect on my planning process and take to breath and be patient, wait on inspiration and how to develop and nurture ideas into fruition rather than force them to the finish.  Heres what I've done since then.

Here's an artist at his desk, with time hanging over him and all his inspiration behind him with do idea how to make it all work. 

A Jack Davis inspired monster sketch that I did for a friend.

Now I want to hear from you. Where do you go when you're looking for inspiration or ideas?