My New Favorite Sketchbook: Fashionary!

As some of you may know, I work for an online game where I, among other things, design clothes for our characters, making me basically a digital fashion designer. I love designing clothes and I make tons of sketches every week when making our collections. This brings me to the wonder of my recent discovery: Fashionary! It's a sketchbook for fashion designers and illustrators and it's absolutely amazing. It has lots of info on garments, measurements, proportions etc. but best of all it has faded figure outlines on every page. This makes it soooo easy to design consistent outfits and items, and the outlines are so thin that you can draw other things on the pages without them messing up your sketches. It's simple and easy and I just can't seem to put it down. You can either get a version with female figures or with men. I'd highly recommend Fashionary if fashion drawing is something you love like I do!

Awesome How To Draw Blog!

Rad Sechrist is awesome! He is a storyboard artist at Dreamworks Animation, but that's not what makes him awesome. It's his blog "Rad How To"! It's simply amazing. Rad covers all kinds of drawing techniques and teaches you his methods of developing characters, drawing anatomy, coming up with the right shapes etc. I could literally spend hours reading his advice and trying it out. If you want to learn to draw better, then this is the place to go. Rad also has a more personal blog where he adds some of his cool drawings and sketches. I'm going to clear an upcoming weekend and devote it exclusively to Rad's teachings. *worship*

018 - Panda

I drew this Panda for my boyfriend. He loves pandas and wanted a drawing so I made him one. This is just a quick scan of it.

Cute illustrations by Katie Rice

I've been following Katie for about three years now. I'm not exactly sure why I haven't written about her before, but I'm making up for that now. Katie has worked with the amazing John K which is very evident in her style. It's very fluent and her cute girls are never generic. They have great quirky expressions and poses, and all her drawings just seem so natural. She also illustrates for a cute web comic called Dumm Comics. And she's also nice enough to share some of her drawing tips and tricks on her blog!

And check out all the Star Trek Original Series Post-It babes below! Love!

WIP - Gingerbread House part 2

This is my update on my Gingerbread House illustration. Next up is color and lines. I'm thinking of making this in three different versions to practise different methods.

Cartoons and illustrations by Elsa Chang

Let me introduce you to the work of LA design student Elsa Chang. Her work is simply amazing and her portfolio is full of wonderful illustrations, backgrounds, characters and more. As far as I can tell she works  mainly with  watercolor and gouache which adds wonderful textures to her drawings. Can't wait to see more work from her in the future.

WIP - Rollo Racoon and The Gingerbread House

As you know I'm trying to become better at drawing. So right now I'm trying to draw my character Coonie at a gingerbread house. This is a work in progress and so far I only have a few elements sketched out. I'm not even sure of the layout yet.

Here's my progress of the day:

013 - Mmm...macaroons

I just finished a watercolor I did some weeks ago. I needed to add the lineart in Photoshop. I might work more on this later. Not sure if I'm satisfied with the line work. Suggestions are welcome.

012 - I'm the man!

Okay so I haven't been able to draw every day. I've simply been to busy with work. I didn't draw today either but I recovered an old sketch and decided to finish it up a bit. So here we go, the piece of the day.

010 - Poulet Poulet

Okay, so I'm a little behind on my daily submissions. I've been caught up in work so haven't been able to find time to draw or anything. But today was Sunday so I decided to give watercolor another go and make the famous Poulet Poulet. I expect to make many many two-headed chickens in the weeks to come as I want it to be my logo. This was just my first try as well as painting practise. The chicken is pure watercolor and lineart was drawn in Photoshop.

002 - Eat me...gently...

Drawing Holly

This is a quick sketch I did of Holly, the writer of the wonderful and addictive Decor8blog. I read it every day and it has greatly influenced my view on decorating and loving your home. Holly is very pretty and she recently posted a wonderful wintery photo of herself that I had to draw. This might not be the only time I try it though, as I'd love to draw it in another style as well.

A little something every day

So, I'm going to jump on board with the whole "create something every day" trend. A lot of people are doing it to stay creative and to help them think out of the box. It isn't so much about the quality of the work but more about being active. You can read more about this on the Inspiration Lab blog. You can follow my progress on my personal blog jesuishoney.blogspot.com. Here's my first submission:

Catman - pencil drawing

001 - Catman

So, I'm going to jump on board with the whole "create something every day" trend. A lot of people are doing it to stay creative and to help them think out of the box. It isn't so much about the quality of the work but more about being active. Here's my first submission:

Catman - pencil drawing