Monday, September 17, 2007

Under Sink Clutter

This is my first homework assignment for Drawing I, we had to draw the area underneath our kitchen or bathroom sink, using only contour lines. This is underneath my bathroom sink, enjoy!

PS, I got a 98% A on this! :D

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

fun with Copic!

Here is just a quick, experimental Copic marker sketch from my sketch book...Just got a big pack of them and I am REALLY enjoying them!


Enjoy!

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Back to School!!


And taking my first art class since graduating high school! Pretty exciting! Here's my first drawing from my Drawing I class, enjoy, there will be more to come I'm sure....



Monday, August 06, 2007

Wonky Weird Drawings...

These are all drawings that I enjoyed at the time I drew them, and still enjoy them, but each one of them is a little quirky in its own unique way....which is not necessarily a bad thing...


The Boy on the bottom left wanted me to draw him with a specific expression, sadly he left before I could take a picture. Had a
lot of fun with him, but the body situations are not thought out a whole lot...

The kid and family loved this drawing, which made it all the more fun!

One of those Perfect faces that don't come around enough, but didn't have enough time to have my way with him, was in the middle of a rush...

A couple of odd looking dudes = an odd looking drawing...

Expression True to life?! Believe it or not he loved it, and laughed for a good long time


This drawing was somewhat an experiment on style, it helped that the dynamics in thier faces were so diverse. My goal here was a quick cartoony drawing while maintaining a decent likeness...they enjoyed it

Friday, August 03, 2007

Park Sketches!!

You know, those quick cute ones that make money? I thought I'd share some drawings that are a little more typical of a standard "Neuenschwander" sketch on a "busy" day at Six Flags over Georgia. For me sometimes it is also enjoyable to just draw a pretty picture, minus all the exaggerations that turn some people off...








Old Faces, and some young...

You meet some REALLY interesting characters drawing in theme parks sometimes, especially in the state of Georgia...here are a few...
You could see this guys stomach hanging down from the bottom of his shirt...easily 400-500 pound guy...his son was getting close...

The wife of this couple had wanted to get a caricature for who knows how long, and finally talked her weary husband into getting one, lucky me!

This guy licked his wife's face during the drawing and called it puppy love...

Don't remember anything in particular about this couple, other than I didn't ask the guy for a 3/4 view, he just sat that way the whole time, I guess thats his good side?!

This man actually said "What do you expect from a Kraut?" in reference to his wife's eyes...

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Monday, July 09, 2007

Co-Workers!

During the day at the park, there are inevitably slow periods throughout the day. In this "free time" I find myself drawing, and being drawn by the other artist working at the stand. Here are a few of the drawings I have done of a few of my coworkers.


This is Monty, an artist working his way to Orlando from Valley Fair. I don't have a picture of him because he got a drawing before I could finish this one, so just take my word for it...

Kelton doesn't have eyes, or a nose, but he does have a good sense of humor.


This is Mike, he's a really cool guy in his first year of caricature. He also does tattoos!


Here is Thomas, he just finished his junior year at SCAD and is working the summer at Six Flags, really cool guy with some nice work. I've drawn him countless times, definitely a challenging face to exaggerate. Do yourself a favor and check out his blog! (maybe even buy one of his screen prints!)

I Thiiiiiiiink this is Edward, he is one of two identical twins working with us this year


And this strange looking girl is Chi, she has worked just a few days at caricature this year and now is back to doing t-shirts. Rumor has it that she will be back with us when we go to weekends in August. She also thinks that Ninjas do not make sound, when we all know that they do, just before they kill you!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

A few lines in black and white

Black and white drawings are fun, and challenging to me because I know that I will not have the opportunity to clean anything up with color, The product is to be a raw, clean, and humorous drawing without the polish of the airbrush. Because of this I attack a black and white caricature differently (not a whole lot differently) than I would do a color caricature. I try to use as few lines as possible to portray the necessary information of a face to make it a recognizable likeness. These are a couple drawings that I was satisfied with...

But just because I was satisfied with it doesn't mean the customers were. This one was returned because "It didn't look like her" and I "didn't draw polka-dots on her bathing suit." Those were just two reasons among other things basically inferring that I didn't know how to draw. But like I said, I liked it, and thought I achieved a decent likeness on both of them, but what do I know?

Fun drawing, thought I captured more than a likeness, with some personality. They were a very animated mother daughter duo.

Nothing more than an interesting drawing, not 100% what I imagined when I started, but turned out interesting none the less.


I REALLY wish the little boy wasn't so short, he had a super interesting face, for a little kid at least. I liked the quality of this one, but I think I went a little thick on some of the lines...

Just a fun and interesting couple all around, what else can I say? I enjoyed drawing the bodies just as much as the faces in this one!

Being Lazy, and some cartoony drawings...

As no one has probably noticed, for someone to notice people would have to actually read this blog, but I have gotten lazy, and have not posted in quite some time. That doesn't mean that I haven't been working at the park and recording some of my drawings, it just means that I haven't posted in awhile. So naturally, I have quite a few drawings to share, all at once. But I will not post them all at once, I'm going to post them several at a time every couple days, and hopefully tell a little bit about the drawings or whatever if I have stuff to say, something that I have not been doing. Well, I'm done blabbing, here are a few drawings from the past month or so....


These couple drawings all have the same "feeling" to them, and thats the reason I have decided to post them together, often I feel like I try to push exaggeration too much and lose the "life" of a drawing. Yea, this sounds a bit corny, but its true a lot of the times. The more spontaneous a drawing is sometimes the more I like it, blah, weird, but here, some more cartoony park sketches...
The one above didn't turn out exactly how I planned, mostly because it was rushed (darn people wanting a triple done five minutes before closing! I really wish goofy kids came early in the day...) But I liked it...so...here...


Once again, had a "vibe" that I liked. The background was a request, the girl wanted it colorful, and this is what she got. But she seemed to like it!


This drawing was so long ago, I really don't remember a whole lot about it, was one of the days when I worked alone, it was a fun drawing, and I think I achieved a decent likeness...I hope!


Drawing messed up girls hair is fun, even if they think it's "perfect"


When I started this one, I wasn't looking for a whole lot of exaggeration, I just wanted to make them look goofy without a whole lot of distortion. I like it...