mall bunnies

Another trip to the mall, this time to see "How to Train Your Dragon 3D". A bit over-chatty, but pretty good.

Here are the gesture drawings of passers-by. I'm trying to justify spending $10 on a movie by getting drawing practice in on the same trip.

In the food court...



A well-fed mall cop...



I don't like big butts but they stay still longer than the skinny ones.





There were baby bunnies in a bin...

duck! turtle! duck!

On my excursion to the mall to see "Avatar" today (just getting around to it) I brought my sketchpad along to try some drawings. These are gesture drawings, not studies, this is what I could get in a minute or two before the person walked off.



I'm not real brave about this drawing in public stuff. A person on a bench seen from behind is a frequent theme here...





There really was a duck riding a turtle in the fountain at the mall...


... apparently trying to re-enact scenes from a "B.C." comic strip









How did people go to the mall before the cellphone? There seem to be more people talking on phones than in the stores.





I used to be better at this quick sketching. I need to get back in shape.

how... did i do that?

I'm cheating a bit, this 2D image is not a hand drawing or even a result of a vector artwork program like Adobe Illustrator. This is a "procedural material" that renders my version of the Indian head from the old TV test patterns.



The 3D program Animation:Master has something called "combiners" that make patterns with a pair of colors. Among those are "spherical" and "grid" combiners and by combining those in various ways it is possible slice and dice them and get results quite different from the more usual uses of procedural materials, such as creating a wood grain texture.

It's not the easiest way to make an image like that, nor the best, but I just tried it as a demo of how far one could go with "combiners".

Here's the Indian Head in place. The test pattern is also procedural materials.

strum strum strum

My attempt to capture a guitar in just three lines.

Onward I draw, no?

For Palindrome Day in America I have attempted to draw the defunct Harmon-Ising character "Bosko" looking at himself in a mirror.



This brings to mind a passage in "The Illusion of Life" where the answer to "How do you draw Mickey Mouse's head from the top?" was "Don't try to draw Mickey Mouse's head from the top."

better than one

For the new year I resolve to draw more and draw better.

Here's "more". A quick go at sketching human heads without reference.

mystery caricature #2

Any guesses?

to see what he could see

A desperate, knock it out in ten minutes and get it into the mail, Christmas greeting card for my brother and his family. Last year I made individual cards for them but it went unnoticed so I'm not going to great lengths this time. I'm not even going to worry about the fact that bears do not have long floppy ears.

They're not "art" people. The answer to most questions around their household usually contains the the words "hiking" or "skiing".

So what fitting gift accompanies this picture of a bear going over a mountain?

Four pounds of trail mix.

mystery caricature of the day

SNAP!

I recently finished a long stint on someone else's 3D project. I did this tonight to see if I could still draw.



Nope, guess not!