Sketch Blog #2

During Illustration II class, I took the initiative to listen to my professor, who I adore, to actually start drawing and understanding animals and their structure. I know tigers all to well and decided to expand to the domestic dog. So I drew a couple of sketches here of the dogs muzzle/nose area. The top sketch is my own memory of the form of a dogs mouth and nose but the larger sketch below that one was after looking at a reference a bit longer. As you can tell, my version has a small cup above the mouth like cat's have. I am not saying dogs don't have that "cup" but I realized that its not noticeable as cats. Rather, the dogs upper skin sort of folds as the dog opens its mouth and "folds".

This is all from a husky dog by the way, some dogs have droops like that and others don't...it depends on the breed. But I also noticed that the dogs "droop" mouth can be seen from the other side when drawing the mouth at an angle. The cut between the mouth under the nose is not as curved as cats as well, its more settle. I do hope to draw more canines in the future along with other animals.

Sketch Blog #1

Sketches are loose concepts and idea's placed on paper which is generally used by a pencil. Most use a pencil to erase any mistakes or what a friend of mine uses it for- drawing. He claims I do a "stop and go" style, and sadly, I saw what he meant when we worked on the following sketch together:
Through this, he pointed out interesting shapes that can be used to make the drawing and subject more interesting to look at and also the flow of the pencil marks can make the sketch much more interesting. When you have a moving and flowing sketch, it helps keep it consistent and working evenly with each section. Hopefully I work more flowing like this image had turned out. Even if it was a collaberation sketch, I felt it helped me more than anything.

Introduction

My college career has been one crazy ride and still is. I came to Indiana Wesleyan University as a youth ministry major. I wanted to work with teens and preach God's word. After some incidents that happened, I felt that ministry was not where I was suppose to be. So I changed my major 1/2 through my sophomore year to a fine arts degree and then my junior year, to illustration. I have not one bit doubted that Illustration is where I am suppose to be. The work is hard, I feel I still have a lot of catching up to do in just 2 semesters, but in the past year, I have changed so much in my art. As a result, I feel that doing a daily blog of sketches would help keep me on track with exercising and exploring. This is a good way for me to show what I sketch and what my thought process was. Even if no one reads this, I am getting this down and making it official and that is the first step to making a mark in myself.

I still use my Live Journal
and my art is displayed on Deviant Art