I did this little sketch for Sonja a few months ago in our Spanish Class, Sonja suggested that I put it up on my blog. At first I was just trying to draw a cute little picture of her late hamster Super Dude but when I finished it I realized that artistically it was a tiny tribute to the little guy. He was a good hamster, he had big puffs of fur on his butt that Sonja liked to refer to as "ass jets", and he liked to eat and sleep and cuddle. So, this one is for you Super Dude!!! 
To me a drawing (especially a drawing of a costumed crusader) is much more fun to look at when it is fluid and simple. A drawing can really get bogged down when there is too much going on. Something I have been trying to work on lately with my art is to just have more fun with it. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in worrying what the finished product is going to look like that I end up not enjoying myself or the drawing anymore, and it shows through. Generally when I stop having fun with a drawing, that is when the drawing comes out stiff, rigid, and pretty much unemotional. So on that note, here is a picture of Superman. I drew this sketch very quickly and as you can see it is not very detailed, but I personally really like the way it turned out. I think it came out looking the way I wanted it because oddly I just shut my brain off and let my pencil go to work. When drawing it is so easy to get caught up with over thinking anatomy, form, placement, perspective, composition, etc....and while these things are important I think that they should come second on the list of what makes an enjoyable drawing. Have fun when drawing, have fun in life, have fun in all that you do, because when you do the end result is so much more pleasing. See you here next time.
Lately I have really been trying to make more time to practice my drawing. I realize there are so many things I still do not have a grasp on and I really need to improve. Originally I was going to post something a little different, it was going to be something that I was going to color in Photoshop, but like I said, there are so many things that I really need to start practicing more. One of those things would definitely be Photoshop. Anyway, I am going to keep working on that and post it here when it starts looking a bit more the way I would like it to. With all that being said, I did a few warm up sketches today. Just a few randome faces. I really enjoy drawing faces, in fact in might be my favorite thing to draw. So here are a few mugs for your visual enjoyment. I hope everyone is having a great week. 
Just a quick one for today! I am trying to get better at drawing that crazy mechanism know as the human body! Hope everyone had a great weekend!
I could actually hear the Disneyland fireworks last night as I was drawing this. I have been missing Disneyland something fierce lately so I thought I would do a quick Magic Kingdom sketch. There really is something so magical about Disneyland when you are a kid; and though I still love visiting the park as often as I can, you can never truly and completely capture that same feeling of wonder and amazement as an adult. It is important that we never truly loose our childish sense of adventure. This world is filled with a lot of dark and terrible things, but it is also filled with beautiful things, things that spark the imagination and fill our minds with fascination, brilliance and awe. It is those nice things, those charming and imaginative things that one will always want to remember. 
"You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by".
When daggers are pointed at innocent hearts
