Next semester

* * * Apparently there is just five more paintings until Castle Greyskull. "Hold onto your butts," as it were.

sketchbook blunders for late July

Super busy recently. I actually should be doing working on the Cougar's engine right now but I've decided to update this blog. Lucky you! Starting with Church drawings. Top right is probably the nicest drawing I've ever done in my opinion. Though my opinion is easily swayed. As I have fallen in with the ruinous powers (nudge nudge)
So it appears that the forces of Chaos will become a permanent fixture here. Done on Friday the thirteenth. That web address on there I might visit some time. It was supposed to be a good cure all or something.
Part of an expirement. Ahh~
Church. Testimony meeting gets to draw fast. Unless they get wordy. Which the better drawings were probably the wordier people. And a nice braid.
So I was looking through my OLD drawings. Like the 1998 Japanimationesque drawings. I sure tried really hard. Anyway, I had all this scrap paper in there with like. . . one tiny drawing on it. So I took all that paper out and put in into my "draw on this paper" pile. So I was basically taking those tiny lame head and making them 'current'. It's cool because I knew what I was trying to do.

This head is darling! I don't think I meant to draw kids but I think that they look like them. And ruinous powers again.
Choas Gwen-chan. It is very unfortunate that GWEN comes out the day school starts. I'm so doomed this semester. I guess it's sisters of battleesque more than. . . bleh`

HH stuff. Flying headbutts. Bison. Ruinous powers.
Bear uzis and homer simpson(?).

I still love my Niji brush. Occasionally when geeking out I'll draw this kinda stuff. We got terminators this time.

More niji.
Even more Niji. . .and an AK!
Orks and orcs.
And an ork. Everday a bigger dork than yesterday.

Entire Youth Choir

Stake conference! So I had the great idea to draw the ENTIRE CHOIR! After you've been drawing models for 3+ hours and painting landscapes for 5+ hours, you realize that two hours to draw something isn't enough time. So, it's speed. Holy moly speed. Speaking of speed, I didn't realize how fast those meetings go. It was liking they were singing at me or I was singing or they were preaching and people would stand in the way so. . . don't underestimate how lively and crazy these meetings are. Kids rolling around and you couldn't stop it.

alligator in the pool

Brikabrakiasaurus day

Finals are over. I have a week grace period to do nothing but awesome. Did I do I do that? Do I ever not do that? Or at least try? On with the non-sense.

Thomas the Deep Frying Robot is making a return. I don't know when or how but this is the fatal beginnings of it. Watch as Autmn, Heather, and Thomas roll the mark of the beast and are scared to wits end by Alfred the Lucky Spider. I'm sure we'll get more frybread and definitely more ninjas. More to come.
Drawing in church. I'm getting good at sitting where I can see people. At least the front of them. Only small likenesses this time around. It was awkward. Some of them I just plain jacked up. Speaking of jacked up. I got to replace the clutch on my brother's car last Saturday!

We got this cool transmission jack (that red thing with wheels) to ease our woes. We didn't bother taking that exhaust pipe off. We didn't want to dealt with drilling out rusty bolts. So we beat around it until we got the transmission out. I had fun reaching into tight places and turning bolts I couldn't see. No bolt can hide from my long skinny arms.

A long exposure of my brother taking the bolts out of the flywheel. We took care in making sure we'd get the timing right when putting everything back.
The starter. Not sure why I took a picture of this. But I had to take it out of there. Nice catch!
The old one and the new one. I have a morbid fascination at how worn out the parts will get on machines. I would have loved to show you the rotors and brakes on my truck a while back but I didn't think to take a pictures then. Holy moly.
Whoa, ridges. Anyway, I felt I needed to share that experience. I'm pretty much sore everywhere. I even got a good nap under the car on the garage floor. We've got most of it put back together. We've got a few hours before it's drivable.

Regnosaurus Day

I just post for the Nunavut. So you get more silly garbage. But they all make me laugh until it hurts. Wait, I lied. Being retarded is one of life's greatest virtues.

Hello. Gouche on unsuitable paper?! For shame! Stormtroopnatomy is off?! For shame!

It's a half baked idea. But I want to get it up before I forget about it. It needs to be funnier or scarier. I don't think it can do both.

Kronosaurus Day

I finally found a Niji Waterbrush. So I loaded it with Sumi-e and did some lame stuff.

Spacekimos from memory with the niji pen. Falcoon is responsible for the zipper crazy. Gotta draw every tooth in the zipper. Why? We're crazy.
Wonky stuff. Yes, those are totally 2142 wheels on the VW. And is that the Bodyguard? No she has something coming out of her armpit. What is that!? Lame Lame. . .

All from photos except the girl there. . . she's a church goer. I get a kinda likeness from that kind of drawing. Except I'm going in too small and not looking enough. I should be filling sketchbooks with those kinda drawings instead of getting a half dozen for the whole thing. I need to ride buses more.

Rioarribasaurus Day

8x10ish china marker


The walkers today just aren't like they used to be. With 'mecha' around, there are no real 'mechs'. Man, I miss the mech days. Wait, did they ever leave?Ten minutes with china marker.

If you're going to make the eyes far apart, make sure it looks like you did it on purpose.

Gun turtle and toilet. To me it isn't random. To me it isn't absurd. There's a level of absurdity that I haven't attained yet. It's like, you can't tell how spicy it is until you've built up some kind of tolerance. And I can throw a meatloaf far. . . far over the mountain. Next you'll be thinking I've copied an entire anatomy book in a night. Don't believe it. I started just like everyone else. . .with stick men.

Bruhathkayosaurus Day

4x6 Gouche on board

I copped out and painted the sun in the corner. All I needed to do was add some of those 'w' birds. That'd totally make it awesome.


Five girls talking about bulimia. All named Katelyn, plain Kate, or Plain Kate. "Katelyn! You don't understand! I have bulimia! I feel trapped." Sitting in a giant wicker chair.
Run! Flee! A montage!
Thanks to Glen Keane's Eagle Fact Sheet I sorta know how to draw an eagle.
No.
I don't even know myself. Visual synthesis. No, you'll have to tell me what the heck it is.


Trees and various pole vaulter positions. I used to pole vault. I almost died. I almost died it a vicious skull cracking.

I taught a third grade class how to draw the basic shapes today. I didn't give kids enough credit until today. They were so well disciplined and eager to learn. I've never seen people so excited about life than these kids! Absolutely inspiring. The lesson went rather well. I didn't get as much as I wanted in but, they're just kids and they had just gotten out of recess. So cool~

Massospondylus Day

Redesigning an friend's on character. Essentially trying to canonize things. However; I explore and not canonize. So, This is what you have. We had a couple refs to inspire the works. But I started making stuff up. We're trying to nail the facial features. The far left is was picked.
The body type that was chosen. Wiry and athletic.
She doesn't wear that single piece all the time though. I as trying to come up with a uniform he was describing to me. Left make enough sense. I can never figure out why huge shoulders in vogue. It does look like a warm coat though. With the bare legs an all. Cammy?
Never guess where this is UVSC students. Yeah, it's rather sloppy.
From photos on DA. Studying knees and overlapping forms.

Abrictosaurus Day

10x20-ish oil on board

Painting from the Friday Destruction Derby Life Crusher Fest. They say they liked it flipp-ed this way. So I flipp-ed it. My foreshortening isn't too great so she's supposed to be lying on a couch. Apologies for the bad photo. I guess this was about 3 1/2 hours to paint.
The pianist in my ward. Don't know her too well. She exists on a different plane than me. Still she's nice. Except the range on this one is about 20 yards. There's hardly any likeness. An hour.

Hands from memory. I get certain angles right off the bat. When you get in trouble remember foreshortening and angles. Compare. . . widths. If that goes off then just use a model. That's the cool thing about hands is that most everyone has them. Thirty minutes.

A strummer! grrrrr~! Stop strumming and start wailing! Grampas' guitars. . . . sheesh. I like the little lines one the best. When lines get little, you'd better hope you've been watching. Cause I wasn't. Forty five minutes?
15 min man from "Boom! Head shot! drawing class" I so ungratefully sneaked into. So ungratefully~!

The Crocuses have risen~! The Marines of flowers. First in. . . uh, first out? Snow will still be on the ground and they got screaming up. Probably my favorite flower.

I finally watched Omohide Poro Poro again. I mean I went out of my way just to get this all the way from Hong Kong. Let me tell you. It is genius! Absolute genius~! I loved it. It changed my life. I'm filled with love because of this film. Please watch it.