Myrna Loy Portrait

This drawing of classic actress Myrna Loy, was completed at the end of April/early May 2012 and presented a different challenge. The soft look in the photo was a different texture than I usually work with, and simply using an ordinary paper napkin as a blending tool ended up serving pretty well. It’s one of my favorites of the recent string of projects.

Peter Venkman Portrait

I believe this drawing was done last fall sometime, but it was a fun project. Aside from this film remaining at the top of my list of favorites, it was fun to experiment with a different size source photo… and then to decide whether or not I should add in the background. In the long run, I certainly was glad I did.

Michael Scott (Steve Carell) Portrait

As  a fan of Steve Carell and The Office, I’ve tried to do some drawings of Steve several times over the years (the closest “good” one I’ve done was from his Evan Almighty promo photos, but I don’t like it enough to share it ). This sketch was completed over a couple days in April 2012.

Drawing Fever

Since launching my “drawing-a-day” campaign, I’ve just been focusing on having fun stretching myself and making sure it all stays fun.

As mentioned earlier, I did unearth my old comic book collection and have been using that as inspiration for different styles of drawing. Before leaving for work in Nashville for a few days, I devoted a couple of those daily drawings to one pen sketch of a Real Ghostbusters comic book cover….

It sort of breaks the goal but it’s still having me make time for more drawing time. I’m already feeling less rusty.

And while in Nashville, despite thoroughly enjoying my time there, I felt myself genuinely missing drawing. One afternoon, my buddy Kevin and I stopped in a Starbucks to hang out and I saw a middle-aged man sitting by the entrance with a huge drawing pad and a box of professional grade art markers. He was working on some kind of cartoony map and it looked fantastic. I knew that man hadn’t gotten as good as he did at his craft by taking time off for other things. He had to have practiced and exercised his talents. I was inspired and it just made me miss my new artistic goals more.

Now that I’m back home, I look forward to trying to get back into the swing of this!