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Whipped out the color pencils to prove something to myself. Seems to add up.

ach, Mensch! it’s thing-a-day no. 8 (I ain’t never catchin’ up):

Just some naked guy with Azn pop star hair. Why did I draw this

I watched one of the movies I had recorded on the tee-vee tonight.  To be honest, The 47 Ronin part II was hard for me to get through and not a favorite.  Maybe it would’ve helped if I had see part I?  I wanted to check it out because the synopsis looked promising: samurai seek revenge and all 47 of them are sentenced to death by suicide based on a true story. Visually the film had some nice stuff to look at (costumes, hair, a look into different country and different time period). 

This drawing is a paused screenshot from the movie jotted down on paper.  I roughly sketched out the courtyard that these two dudes were sitting in, but later decided to paste over the green-blue notebook paper background instead.  As the movie was in black and white, I was also able to color it however I liked.

My partner is a weaver.  Our son has recently expressed interest.  And he’ll be wanting to give every kid in his kindergarten class a Valentine.  So…. (check out the one in front of the toaster with a “thread” sticking up… it’s awe-inspiring to witness how NOT constrained by adult thinking he is):

Today I finished another piece in my circle series. The others are in my etsy shop.

-robyn

I’m fallin’ behind. Thing-a-day no. 7:

I borrowed the pants and shirtlessness from Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and the hat was inspired loosely by the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Geary & 26th in the Outer Richmond. The shoes are lifted directly from the pages of this month’s W magazine.

I used a .5 mechanical pencil then a .1 Staedler pigment liner pen on sketchbook paper, same as always. I had to omit her feet because I ran out of paper, so I drew another pair of legs (replete with shoes) on tracing paper, and then I composited and colored in Photeauschoppe. That’s the original drawing on the bottom.

so this dude http://www.thing-a-day.com/author/rowstyles/ has been putting up some mad dope fonts for days.. which in turn made me want to do the same. Unfortunately all I got is this one sad little guy:

And even more tragic-  I tried neopastels for the first time on a portait with disasterous results. The garish neon bright colors I had to choose from didn’t help any as I attempted to approximate skin tones. All that being said, here she is anyway:

Finally, I put Margaret in a sweater mostly to amuse myself. She, on the other hand, doesn’t look amused at all. Since this was probably my most successful attempt at anything the whole damn night I think I’ll post it:

thing-a-day no. 6

I drew this during lunch break today (pencil then Staedler pigment liner pen, on paper blah blah blah); I had been sitting next to this kid for the first three hours of figure drawing class who would NOT SHUT UP. Incidentally, I got out of class two hours early in a strange twist of “luck” because I ate this canned tuna snack from the vending machine and got a mild case of food poisoning. I swear this really happened

ANYWAY, I colored this drawing (in Faux toe chop), bearing in mind rowstyles’ suggestion that I try to resolve in two colors. YEEEEEEAH RIGHT! But I tried it anyway and boy, am I convinced

thing-a-day no. 5:

COLOR RUINS EVERYTHING!

(I colored yesterday’s drawing in Foteaux-shawp. ugh)

(EDIT: I got rid of the airbrushed crap, as per Calvin’s suggestion and now it’s a little less offensive)

For yesterday…The instructions were to illustrate a”good” childhood memory. This one is when I went on a trip to Germany and Austria with my family as a little kid. While there, I ate lots of kaiser rolls with butter, enjoyed the guesthouse beds with those big fluffy white duvets and long white fluffy pillows (which I’d never seen before) and generally had a great time. I stuffed my face at every Cafe Konditorei (pastry shop) they’d let me in.

I also bought a pair of FM radio headphones at a store called “Hi Fi” (which I think was already a dated concept by then). I made up a ridiculous dance which I did as a means of transportation instead of walking down the sidewalk.

I would have liked to have captured the utter goofiness a bit better, and made the kid have more personality, but this is what I had time for.

buddha blur, originally uploaded by xgray.

A colored pencil doodle for today:

I usually pick a palette of colors and mix them up somewhat randomly in a piece, but I thought it might be cool to combine colors in sort of an ombré pattern, although my sketch doesn’t go from dark to light. It goes from color to color, starting with purple and ending with turquoise. (I took a photo of one of my bracelets, converted it to gray scale, printed it out and colored it with colored pencils.

I really like the way this looks. I’m definitely going to try it.