Christmas 2010

So I know I've been absolutely horrible recently about posting, but I thought I would share the drawings I did for my family (and friends) this year for Christmas. I'm cheap, I don't buy real presents.

Butterfly for Mom

Sad Baby Polar Bear for Dad

Bonsai Tree for Gma and Gpa

Baby Deer for Spencer

Calla Lily for Traci

Daisy for Sunshine

Angry Tiger Face for Travis

Princess Leia for Penny

Han Solo for Zac (of course)

Hummingbird for Rachel

I am missing a few because I haven't been able to scan them in yet, but I will post them when I do.

I really liked the way that most of these turned out, so hopefully I will continue making them. I particularly like the animal ones with lots of fine detail.

Experimentin'

Since I drew portraits of my family for Christmas I've been meaning to make more. I've been contemplating it for a while and I decided to draw them today. However, instead of just doing black and white I decided to use color this time.

This is Rachel Hazelbaker. This is Rachel Hazelbaker's portrait. In color.

I also wanted to do my own portrait. Therefor I did. I also documented the step by step process of the drawing as well.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Once I scanned them in I played with them a bit in Photoshop and in the process I inverted the color. It's kind of neat.

Well, at least I think they're neat.

Christmas Fun

So for Christmas I made portraits for mi familia as their presents. It was lots of fun and lots of work. I'm glad I got to work early on them, but even with that extra early start, I was scrambling at the last minute. I'm glad to know I still procrastinate, even though I'm out of school.

Derek

Josie

Sunshine

Gma and Gpa

Mom and Dad

Zac, Penny and Henry

Kerry and I

Aaaaand finally, Matt. (We call him uncle Fester)

December?

How is it December already? I've been absent recently because of a film that I was working on called MOOZ-lum. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun. I had no life, but now I do. The other day I went to the Shadow Art Fair and one of the booths was a guy doing portraits of people and it was a 'name your own price' kind of thing. I got him to agree to exchanging a portrait for a portrait, so I did his portrait.

It's pretty silly. I love it.

Drawrings

Here are a couple of drawings that I did recently.

Obviously I'm caught up in the 'Where the Wild Things Are' craze. I'm going to go see the movie sometime this weekend. I'll get back to you whether it's as good as the trailer makes it look.