Well, I have been busy for the past few days but I am back sketching everyday again, except Sundays. I just finished watching Aaron Blaise short video on animal sketching and it was wonderful. It gave me a great insight on how to draw animals from using very easy basic steps. So I followed his video and copied his Dog and Bear and have posted them below. It just a quick sketch a in the video, so it it only a few minutes each but it was worth it weight in gold for the knowledge it gave. Thanks to Proko and Blaise

My latest work from following Proko and his shape design work shop class. It was crazy interesting. I thought it was not going to be interesting but it was very interesting and I must say that every single video that I have watch, and I mean every one, has given me a new insight on something new in the "art world" It has been fantastic! This means to me that no video should be skipped, no matter, how "lame" it may look. Watch it, and it "WILL" show you something new. Thank You Mr. Proko.

Well, It's been a few more days since my last post but , I have finished the two heads"after"Robert De La Torre. He is a wonderful artist that I know most from the comics that I have read. So here is my work, please do comment, all are appreciated.

Phew! I needed to take a step back and really thing about this! I'd already seen Draftsmen: Choosing Art Parents, but didn't really "think" about it. Even as a very young child I always loved Beatrix Potter- her art is charming and her life story- fascinating. Then, last week I was in a book store and saw an illustrated book of Watership Down- another childhood favorite (I love Richard Adams)- but I couldn't get over the quaintness of the rabbits and the volume of the work- so now Joe Sutphin is a new Art Parent- even BETTER because I could watch whole interviews and videos of him sketching and inking (using an ink pen AGAINST the nib direction! Such blasphemy- I love it! I can hear every grammar school art teacher shrieking in horror)...My high school and college memory is full of every Calvin and Hobbes cartoon drawn- it was me and my childhood stuffed animals magically inked onto paper. Only now, that I actually studied them from an artistic perspective, do I realize that all the lines are actually PAINTED!!! I tried to throw down the lines with the fluidity and exuberance that Waterson seems to do- but I only had a fat Sharpie pen- I can't yet imagine trying to use a brush (of course James and Janice Gurney are other idols so I guess I'll have to try one day). I really want to draw horses in a "classic" Western style and have always been drawn (no pun intended) to Remington's thundering horse horses and couldn't understand how he could accurately capture such motion in that era. Now, though I see he was quite racist in his depictions of minorities (even though it was the late 1800's: again Draftsmen: Separating the Art from the Artist) so I figured I'd try to post studies of more "appropriate" modern Western art parents for this course. PS: (Is there a way to make paragraph breaks in these posts?)

Well, Its been a few days since my late pix posted because of life issues but here is the 2nd shoe sketch that I have had to due in the last week or so. Any and all comments are appreciated.

Hello to all out there I few days ago, I posted my first Jeff Watts effort, and it was okay. But his work was in charcoal and I had never worked in charcoal, so I completed mine in HB/2B/8B and posted it. I then wanted to do the assignment again but in charcoal but it did not work out. It was taking to long, I used only a soft, med, and hard 'pencil' but i need a lot of more practice using charcoal before I should continue. Anyway. What I would like to ask of you folks if anyone has a great or even good beginners charcoal piece that I could work on? Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

Well, Here is the first attempt at the Jeff Watts Skull. I used a HB, 2B, and 8B pencil. I wanted to use pencil first because I have never used charcoal before. Now I am going to redo the skull but this time I am going to use use 3 charcoal pencils, a hard, med, and a soft one. I am so new at this that I had to look up how to sharpen the charcoal pencils with an X-Acto blade. This could be fun or a disaster:(

Good Morning to All, This was more challenging then I thought it would be, also I made the sketch a little smaller than I wanted to. Anyway, here is the latest in the Edgeworth collection

Well, its been a few days since I have posted anything, because this one was a tough one for me. As I mentioned before, I recently picked up the pencil again after being away for from it for 3 decades. This is about the 5th draw and redraw of the hand and arm. I am more or less back to where I was, and now need to advance and grow in my work. I believe this course will help with this goal. On to Robot Boy

Yet another masterpiece from the House of "Edgeworth" No not really just a barely okay Penguin that was a pain to complete. I would like to add move to him (her?) but that is not the point of the exercise.. Also the Penguin, like the camel (that is Joe to you old people) is one of the last things in the world that I would pick to draw, so this is fun. Thanks for the exercise and I appreciate any feedback. Next is the hand, which should be a fun challenge:)