I keep this baby loaded and ready to shoot my buddy John whenever he comes into my office to talk about something stupid.

Drew it last week, kept forgetting to scan it.

Nerf Maverick

Reference was from Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 #106, page 11, as printed in Essential Spider-Man #5.  Pencils by John Romita.

Spidey on a Building

Had some time yesterday, and since I enjoyed drawing that dragon so much, I decided to do a quick search for some more art to try and, well, copy.  Before I can start making things up from memory, I have to see how other people do things, and looking at comic books and fantasy concept art seems like a great place to start.

So in my search, I found this image, and I drew this:

Gold Dragon

Might try doing some digital coloring of that, not sure.

I’m still going through the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain book, but in the meantime, I don’t want to get hung up on the exercises in the book at the expense of just having fun and drawing.

So today I cracked open a D&D sourcebook (D&D 3.5 Draconomicon p. 39) and flipped through until I found some fun fantasy line art to work from.  Always loved blue dragons, and this one looks like he’s smiling in a way.  Pretty happy with this one.  I even like the half-finished quality of it, so in the future I’ll be able to look back and see some of my in-progress work.

Limited myself to 25 minutes, took a snapshot with my cameraphone and adjusted the levels in Paint.NET.  I’ll try and get a clean scan later.

Unfinished Blue Dragon

As an aside, I’m having a blast while drawing, just losing myself for a bit.  It’s even helping me focus at work; I feel like drawing for a bit helps me burn off whatever creative restlessness I’ve been having lately.  I definitely feel like I have more confidence while I’m drawing, even after only a few weeks of getting back into things.

I’m currently going through Betty Edwards’ The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.  We used some of the techniques from the author back in one of my high school art classes, so I figured I’d pick up the book and see where it takes me.

Before you begin, there are three exercises they ask you to do as a way to measure your progress.  I really liked this one, so I’d like to post it.

My Left Hand

Got back from vacation, and Sam called me out on the fact that I hadn’t drawn anything – exactly what he should have done.  So I took 15 minutes and did a quick sketch of my car key and posted this via my phone.

Thanks, Sam.

Update 7/20/2010:
Replaced phone pic with a scan.

Car Key

Worked on this over the weekend, looking at the examples in Andy Smith’s Drawing Dynamic Comics.  I sometimes wonder if I should be working from comic art or real life, not sure what I want to get better at.  But at this point, I think the important thing is that I’m still trying to draw everyday, no matter what it is!  So here’s a big, unrealistic, crazy-muscle guy.

Comic Muscle Guy

(Smith p.64)

I brought my sketchbook to the beer store this week.  Tried to get the lines and shape right on this soda can in between helping customers.  Relatively happy with it, but one thing I noticed that I really need to work on is drawing ellipses and cylinders.  The pull-tab is not nearly detailed enough.

A Soda Can