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Weekend projects

Reg — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:16:47 +0000

No weekend plans? No problem! Plenty of ways to pass the time with weekend projects! Some sneak peeks:

Saturday stay-in!

Cool cats. Planning to do tons of these for a promo piece.

Sad panda with a mustache. Um, what?

Catching up on my travel journal backlog (again… more on that in a future blog post… when I finish the journal).

Photos are from my Instagram account (@wedgienet).

Hope you had a good weekend! My Facebook page, by the way, recently hit 200+ likes (thank you!). Get in on that for occasional, non-spammy, and non-annoying updates: http://facebook.com/wedgienet.net :)

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My Sketchbook Project

Reg — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:00:45 +0000

Some time last year, I ordered a blank sketchbook from The Sketchbook Project. The premise is that anyone can order a sketchbook, fill it out, and send it back by a certain date so that it can be part of a big, traveling sketchbook exhibition all over the world. Sounds good, right? Unfortunately, I never got to sending out mine. I never even got past filling out anything beyond the second page of my book. I’m not surprised– I have so many personal projects left unattended and this was just another one of them.

However, I did bust out the sketchbook recently to test out some new acrylic paints I bought. Some of my old paints have dried up, leaving me with this:

Tumor-like globs of acrylic paint that jiggle when you poke them.

I really was just looking to test out my new paints so I quickly sketched on the sketchbook cover and came up with this:

I love working with cardboard– it’s so “unfinished” and not as intimidating as
a blank piece of white paper. It screams out, “I’m brown and blank! Do something with me!”

It’s basically just a doodle with color, but I like how imperfect and loose the overall look is. Might have to consider working in this loose style for future paint work– it’s fast, spontaneous, and raw in this digital age where everything is clean and perfect and polished.

So maybe the sketchbook project isn’t a bust after all. At least I have a cute, personalized cat sketchbook to use when my current one is all filled up?

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Illustration Friday: Messenger

Reg — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:34:24 +0000

In an effort to get back to Illustration Friday, I am shamelessly re-posting an old drawing as it’s a fit for this week’s topic, Messenger.

I drew this a year ago on Odosketch, a simple, online drawing app with limited, muted colors and no undo function.

Throwing in an unrelated, just-finished drawing also made on Odosketch. It’s a drunk cat! No particular reason for the drawing but I did just buy a couple of bottles of San Mig Light just waiting to be opened (which I will get to after I post this) :D

The interesting thing about Odosketch is that you can replay your drawing stroke by stroke, mistakes and all! See the replay of the bear here and the drunk cat here :3