sketch it

Face time

2011-12-07T17:29:00.001-07:00

So this Sculpture has gotten the most face time on my humble blog, but I do like it a lot. It's first appearance was in may of 2008. the second appearance showed improvements in May as well, 10 days after it's predecessor. now I bring you his final version, which is still unfinished. unfortunately during the time between may 2008 and now the clay actually hardened slightly and is difficult to work with. especially on areas like the horns (I don't understand why the horns are so hard to work with, his ear didn't give me any issue). maybe one day I will throw new clay on the horns and truly finish this sculpture, but I think it is time for me to move on.

humans

2011-11-22T23:30:00.001-07:00

more Alchemy doodles. I really am enjoying playing with this program. now I need to take these sketches into GIMP or something and make something fantastic.

Alchemy Raven

2011-11-22T20:35:00.001-07:00

Alchemy Raven

I'm slowly getting the hang of this new program. I've learned that I enjoy using the mirror option, though I feel more creative without it on. I enjoy birds, and feathers are something fairly easy to render in Alchemy. here is something I did tonight rather quickly.

Alchemy

2011-11-19T20:00:00.001-07:00

I was introduced to something awesome the other night by my friend Will, (you can find his blog linked to the right). It's called Alchemy, and it's wonderful. I'm still learning how to use it and getting used to the controls, which in reality is just an excuse for my lack of skill in this area. the first image is what came out of alchemy in a minute or so, which I then took into the gimp and sketched over quickly. I see a lot of potential with this program. including custom brushes.

just old light

2011-11-08T22:32:00.000-07:00

I've tried drawing a lot of different things today. but I haven't had any motivation, no umph. and very little friction to get started. today hasn't been good. let's just leave it at that. in any case, I managed to do a simple sketch of my left hand. fantastic. it's like I could only manage a pile of crap that is shiny or something, and I am supposed to be happy about it.

Jaw bone animation test

2011-10-31T01:44:00.000-06:00

here is a video update. this is a project I have had to delay finishing... simply because of a lack of knowledge, and time. however, it will be finished. hopefully in time for next halloween. haha, yeah...

demon

2011-10-29T23:31:00.000-06:00

still on a halloween drawing kick! LOVING IT! this is still a quick sketch, but I had fun with it, and it is a little creepy. but cool. simple gray sketch with an overlay layer on top.

pumpkington!

2011-10-29T11:57:00.001-06:00

as requested by a friend on facebook, here is pumpkington! just a quick sketch with color, and a simple background. enjoy!

scarecrow

2011-10-26T22:39:00.001-06:00

back on the boat again. my ipod is broken, and I can't listen to my audio books away from the computer, and I can't understand them if I'm doing anything that requires words to be read or written. so drawing comes naturally. good thing too.
here's what I have been messing around with.

Fox logo

2011-09-24T21:41:00.000-06:00

I've been drawing and doing some 3D lately. it's been great! I love drawing, but not talking as much, so I'll just post a logo I did for my woodbadge patrol. it's called a totem, if you're in the know. I was in Fox patrol. look to http://blenderusergrouputah.blogspot.com/ to see the logo animation I'm working on (it's basically done, I may tweak it though.) in the hopefully near future.

3D airplane

2011-08-31T21:36:00.001-06:00

I drew an airplane while we were doing the blender 3D usergroup last night, and today I modeled it in blender! I would have modeled it last night during the usergroup, but my little brother was using my computer. I'll put a shameless plug in right now for anyone that is interested in learning blender, the usergroup is open, and we would like to help! send me an e-mail expressing your interest and we'll get you the info you're looking for. So here is the sketch, and the 3D model so far. I would like to give it a rig, including the mouth and moving eyes... but at the moment my knowledge of blender (or any 3D program) is limiting my ability to do so. we'll figure it out, I am certain, but until then, I will just have to keep modeling it and such. I am quite excited for it.

back again, back again!

2011-08-27T21:16:00.001-06:00

alright, maybe something every day was a little bit ambitious of me, especially since what I want to be doing is art that is more... good. fully rendered rather than just sketches. anyway, after a long break from my blog, I am back. and while I cannot promise an update everyday, I am now giving myself projects, and deadlines to reach. thanks to my friend, Will, I am back into the 3D field using Blender. I am enjoying it quite a bit now that I am actually into it again! here's what I've been working on today.

errors

2011-05-29T00:48:00.000-06:00

trying to do a late entry, but my program crashed as I was about 33% done. It's still frozen right now, and I can't figure out why, nor do I really want to figure it out right now. I'll have to draw double tomorrow or something, even if it means I need to do it in a sketchpad and take a picture of it.

sorry about this!

shading practice

2011-05-27T23:27:00.000-06:00

so, I decided I needed to try out a new blending technique for digital painting. I like it a lot, but it took me a while to figure it out. crazy! I give credit to my friend for showing this to me, but I forgot exactly how he did it, so I had to experiment a lot more than would have been necessary had I paid better attention in the first place.

dragon!

2011-05-26T22:51:00.000-06:00

I like dragons. I like them a lot. so here is a picture of a dragon, I had a difficult time figuring out where the hind legs would go when I started it... but here it is anyway. you can find another drawing done during draw night on the drawnightgroup.blogspot.com blog. congratulations!

even if it's this bad.

2011-05-25T23:24:00.000-06:00

so, even if the drawing is this bad, I've got to make deadline. so I'm posting it. I feel like a bad artist right now, but how am I supposed to get better if I won't show my work to the world? this is motivation to not suck this bad ever again. however, it is going to take time.

it was supposed to be a silhouette, but it isn't very good. better art will follow.

fantastic cow

2011-05-24T23:17:00.000-06:00

so, the draw night trio got together tonight, because apparently once a week just isn't enough. :) we're all way excited about thursday, so much that we couldn't wait.

this is a portion of what I drew tonight. I enjoyed doing it, thinking it a sort of cattle for a fantasy world.

DANGIT I'M AN IDIOT!!!!!

2011-05-23T23:49:00.000-06:00

oh, I am mad at myself right now.

I totally forgot to save the .xcf file of this, so now all I have is the .jpg, which doesn't have the layers I want, and need.

well, this is a lot more lame because I have to start over tomorrow, sort of. blah.

it's a dragon by the way.

garlic!

2011-05-23T00:02:00.000-06:00

well, this isn't the greatest post, but at least I am not using a cop-out again. this is something I drew today, a few minutes ago, and it's not terrible. it's just a sketch though. I need to start doing more detail work though...

it's the end of the world as we know it.

2011-05-22T00:29:00.000-06:00

well, I was kind of hoping the end of the world would happen, I didn't get anything new drawn today, and I need some sleep. so I just took a picture of one of the drawings I did on my mission.

I hope that you enjoy it even if it's not new.

and yes, I know that I am breaking my own rules. sorry about that.

robot sketch

2011-05-21T00:05:00.001-06:00

I am NOT going to fall behind again! except possibly tomorrow, since I know that I have an 11+ hour shift and so forth... blah. I'll at least post something tomorrow that I drew while I was on my mission.

monkey

2011-05-20T00:03:00.000-06:00

awesome! we had a draw night and I loved it! it was great to get to sit down and draw for a few hours... although I must admit I did do a bit of talking as well. I drew a monkey! I loved being able to get critiques and learn from other artists in the area.

we're actually going to be doing this draw night weekly, and it should be fun. it will be open to those who are interested, especially if we have met with you before the event. there will be a blog specifically devoted to this draw night, and it will be awesome!

http://drawnightgroup.blogspot.com/

sculpture

2011-05-17T22:07:00.000-06:00

I'm really glad I was able to sculpt for the first time since I got home, but it is not finished yet, obviously. I am excited about it, and hope to continue working on it. it should be a little while before it's finished I am sure.

technical difficulties

2011-05-15T16:45:00.001-06:00

sorry about not posting for a few days, blogger was in read-only mode, so I couldn't physically post my drawings. I learned in that time that I really am not good at perspective. so, that's something I need to work on. but, here's a picture to keep me satisfied. just random objects.

sci-fi

2011-05-11T20:16:00.000-06:00

here's today's post! early even! it's sci-fi theme today... I tried doing some space ships and such, but I'm not the greatest at drawing inorganics... I guess I need to practice. so when I post some up, please don't make fun of me. constructive critisism is always welcome however.

late!

2011-05-11T00:09:00.001-06:00

I'm late for my cool today! I had a late night at work and haven't been home until now! I feel so terrible about that! I'll get to work fixing it ASAP!

obviously, this was rushed... sorry about that, but I'm still doing this cool thing everyday stuff! I promise!

western

2011-05-09T21:36:00.000-06:00

today's rule was western... coming up with restrictions is probably the hardest part of my quest to "make something cool everyday". after the restrictions are in place, drawing is easy... relatively. It's enjoyable too! here it is!

do something cool, everyday

2011-05-08T22:06:00.000-06:00

okay, so I was led by a friend (not using his name for privacy reasons) to a lecture about "filling the creative gap". it can be found here: http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/theory/the-creative-gap/

so, I watched it, and it's helped me overcome my "I'm such a bad artist" syndrome. true, I'm not that great, but I won't get better if I dwell on it, so I'm making rules for myself. I'm going to make something cool everyday, taking the advice of the lecture... I am really excited for it, I'm happy that I can and will begin moving forward again.

so this is my entry for tonight.

this is inspired by something my brother said, inadvertently this night. I forget the circumstances, but someone mentioned their weight, while my brother was playing a game and without knowing what was happening, he blurted out "new hi score!". it tickled me.

so yeah, check up each night, I can't guarantee that they will be awesome, but I will be posting nightly.

2011-04-29T22:29:00.000-06:00

this is me drawing again! I'm so excited that I started once more... it's for the shirt.woot derby this week. be sure and vote for it when you see it! (it'll be late)

I'm back, but not drawing quite yet

2011-04-21T00:32:00.001-06:00

so yeah, I"m back from my mission now. I'm still trying to figure out everything, but expect that updates will come sooner or later. hopefully sooner.

draw night dump cont.

2009-02-25T15:08:00.000-07:00

I lied again, but it wasn't my fault. I had two more pages, but Blogger only allows 5 images from your computer at a time or something. maybe I exceeded the file size capacity or something. anyway, here are the two latest draw night pages. one from last week, one from yesterday.

massive draw night dump

2009-02-25T14:04:00.000-07:00

alright, I did it. here are all the pages from my drawnight sketch book since my last update with the elephant man. I hope you enjoy them, I know that I enjoy the drawnights.

stress relief and anger management

2009-02-16T20:18:00.000-07:00

I was rather angry tonight, and still am kind of miffed. chalk one up to being a teenager still.
I have found however that drawing is a great way to relieve those feelings in a constructive manner. quite literally constructive, I noticed this session (which lasted about 30 minutes) that each drawing I did not only became less morbid, and violent, but was also an improvement technique wise (I think so anyway) from the previous drawing.

unfortunately, I delete these images and just re-use the same canvas in GIMP, because I'm lazy. but I did save the last one.

I still have the images from two draw nights to scan, and come tomorrow night it will be three. keep checking back and I'll try and put up some new art.

am I dead? or just lame?

2009-02-15T22:08:00.000-07:00

if anyone checks my blog regularly, you might wonder why I haven't posted any new pictures lately. here's a few reasons you may have thought of.
-I died in a car accident
-I died falling down the stairs
-I haven't been drawing
-I left for my mission
-my internet has been down
-I've been working a ton of overtime
-my muse has left me
-I'm out and out lame
-I'm lazy

most of those aren't true. I'm still alive, I'm still home with my internet working. I have been working a ton, but that's not a terribly good excuse since I've still been drawing. my muse either left me a long time ago, or I have yet to find it, so I'm going it alone, as always. I am lame, and I am lazy. so those are probably your two best candidates for why I haven't posted any new pictures. also, I lost my camera, and don't have any free time at work to scan my pictures in.

I do have pictures though! and I want to post them, so keep checking back if you don't hate me already.

Draw Night 1

2009-01-28T16:55:00.000-07:00

alright, I was able to get some time at work (because the printer broke again) to scan in a few drawings from last night, I am only going to put two up because the printer is being fixed right now and I'll have to get back to work real soon.
I had a really good time at draw night, and it was exactly what I needed to get my motor running. I don't remember the last time I was so enthused to draw. anyway, like I promised here is the drawings. (ha! here is the drawings, I sound like a goon)

the elephant is my favorite, and I actually "finished" it. the other is from a story that Ethan told last night, it was really funny and I just had to capture Ethan shaving his legs.

no pictures

2009-01-27T23:55:00.000-07:00

no pictures in this post, I just wanted to let everyone know how the draw night went. that being said, it was fantastic, and I am very pleased with the results. when I get time to scan/photograph the drawings I will post them here. though there is really only one I truly enjoy looking at. of course, only liking one isn't a big deal, because I was able to see improvement in my art. not only that, but I can see where I need to improve. mainly, the figure and anatomy.

until I post next, keep your pencil on your paper,
Ryan

Cowboys

2009-01-23T12:33:00.000-07:00

I know all I've been posting lately are sketches, but I'm posting this one because I got a new game called Bang! it's a very fun game, and it's western themed. I didn't draw this one after I got the game though, it was actually about a month ago and I was reminded of it by my game. I plan on coloring it soon, possibly starting tomorrow, but it all depends on my schedule.
also, I'm trying to start a draw night with a few local artists close to my age, I got this idea from Jon Diesta's blog (http://jondiesta.blogspot.com/). I love finding a blog that inspires me, and he's got links to other artists' blogs as well, which were also rather inspiring. if you're interested let me know, I'm in the West Valley/Taylorsville UT area. Tuesday night is looking to be the night.

art is funner with inspiration

2009-01-18T22:03:00.000-07:00

to be brutally honest, these are just some really dumb, quick sketches. I'm not exactly proud about the way they turned out, but I am glad that I finally was able to sit down and just draw for a while. I spent the most time on the image of the girl, and the other two were a few minutes tops. very happy to have some slight inspiration once more. art is funner when you have it.

no reference beast, in graphite

2009-01-03T19:09:00.001-07:00

I know I just put up two pictures of the beast, but I drew a picture for a close friend of mine as a going away gift. her favorite disney movie is beauty and the beast, so it seemed fitting. I hope you like it, I enjoyed drawing it. no reference used.

it's always more fun for me to draw a picture for someone else than it is to draw a picture for me. I understand that practicing is important, and I do practice, a lot, it's just more fun when I am going to give the art to someone I care about. anyway, any comments or critiques are appreciated. I've drawn up some thumbnails for a storyboard, and like where it's going, I might post it but I want to keep the story under wraps for a bit.

-Ryan

update

2008-12-30T00:31:00.001-07:00

wow, it's been a while since I have updated this picture blog, right now I don't know if I've saved any of my recent work so that I can upload it... but looking through the posts from the past, it's been a year and a half to two years (I just remmeber 2007 as a start date, not sure if it was early, mid or late 07)since I started it with a portrait of one of my friends. I look back, and I can notice some rather substantial changes in my artwork. I've gotten better, and that's good, because that is what I am going for; improvement. however... I also noticed that I stopped drawing full bodies as much as I used to, and it has become troublesome for me to do so now.

lesson to be learned.... keep drawing? not sure if that's really it, but I figure it can't hurt to keep drawing anyway.

I found some WIP images from a few months ago, hope you like them. oh, and beast is copyright disney.

steam powered train

2008-07-14T20:39:00.001-06:00

My friend asked me to create some images for his website, after some explaining of what he wanted, which was a sort of steam punk machine that was longer than it was short (dimensions were somewhat restrictive) I came up with a train. however, since then he and I have talked and came up with another idea which is more simple and fits his website better. not to say my work on the trains (I drew four or five concept sketches) went to waste, I have been pushing myself to master perspective even more now and this was just the excuse I was looking for to draw more often.

Perspective sketch 1

2008-07-09T18:24:00.000-06:00

well, I found an artist who I really enjoy their style, and as I looked through their gallery I realized that they had an exceptional handle on perspective, and it really added to the viewing experience. having said all that, I promptly went through my art books and found a few pages which spoke of perspective, and the didn't give me very much to go off of, but this is what I came up with. I will use this sketch as a point of reference to gauge my progress.

drawings while camping

2008-07-07T14:09:00.000-06:00

some of the sketches I did while on our family's fourth of July camping trip. I've decided to try doing detail sketches of mouths for a little while. then I'll move on to ears or noses or something of that sort. trying to draw them and express an emotion with them. of course, ears aren't going to be emotion so much...

shading practice

2008-07-02T18:35:00.000-06:00

well, this picture took me around 30-40 minutes to do. I'm just trying to practice rendering semi-realistic faces without making them look flat. this is a first attempt and I'm fairly pleased with the result, I really could use some feedback on this one so that I can improve. thanks!

Self Portrait

2008-06-21T00:25:00.001-06:00

it's been a while, and I have quite a few images I need to upload, but I'll do that some other time. I finished the first self portrait I've ever done last night, and want to share it. :D I hope you enjoy.

getting better?

2008-06-06T13:23:00.000-06:00

well, I think I'm getting better at figure drawing. sometimes I wish I had a different teacher so I could learn another method, I feel slightly restricted by the way he is teaching us. but it works well enough I suppose. I just like test driving different methods and figuring which works best for me. anyway, here's the latest from my figure drawing class and another daily sketch page. (figure drawings have been removed due to mild nudity, they are in my private sketch books, viewable only to me and those which critique my work)

daily sketches

2008-06-02T12:52:00.000-06:00

well, these are a few pages from my daily sketches. I try to do at least one page a day, little gesture drawings, cartoons, and some practice for figure drawings. I enjoy these drawings because I can do whatever I want with them. it's great.

sculpture update and figure drawing

2008-05-30T18:58:00.000-06:00

well, I thought I'd show you some of the progress made on my sculpture, it isn't much because I got sick and cut my finger recently making it painful to sculpt. along with it is my most recent figure drawing, the teacher thinks I'm making a lot of improvement, I feel that I need to be making a lot more. but it will all come with practice. if I ever get around to taking pictures of my drawings soon you'll see some of my cartooning work. (I am particular to drawing cartoons, I really enjoy them.)

taking another look at my figure drawing, it's not terrible, but there are a lot of things I need to improve upon next time. she's extremely muscular and has a really broad torso and a small head... oh well. at least I can see those mistakes and know to work on getting it right next time.
(figure drawings have been removed due to mild nudity, they are in my private sketch books, viewable only to me and those which critique my work)

sculpture

2008-05-20T13:02:00.000-06:00

so I took a look back through this blog, and while there aren't very many entires (I'm planning on updated this blog at least weekly now) the entries in it are extremely diverse. from pencil to animation to sculpture. I think those are the only three things on right now... oh yeah, and a picture edit. anyway, I just wanted to say that before I posted images of a sculpture I'm working on right now.

Figure drawing

2008-05-19T19:38:00.000-06:00

well, if any of y'all out there read my blog "reader beware" you know I'm taking my first art class. it's a figure drawing class, and so far there has been one class, in which Idrew these two pictures from a live model, I'm really happy with the way they turned out. sorry for the low quality image, I didn't want to deal with my scanner today. it's being a beast.

this is the first drawing done in the class.
and this is the second.

(figure drawings have been removed due to mild nudity, they are in my private sketch books, viewable only to me and those which critique my work)

Principles of Animation

2008-04-27T12:36:00.000-06:00

alright, I'm posting the assignments from my DGM 2620 class, or principles of animation I. I really enjoyed the class, but it felt like I didn't put as much into it as I could have because of math, english and biology. I'll write a blog about it later in my actual writing blog though. here are the assignments with a sentence or two about them.

this is the assignment that every single animation student does no matter what. a ball that is supposed to bounce. it's not very good, just as all of the following animations will be... but it's a learning process.

a paper airplane, simple enough... except the perspective. I didn't do such a great job on this one with the timing and spacing either. but again, a learning process.

the assignment was to make a doughboy character walk. (doughboy= cartoon anatomy, round, and a doughy looking) simple enough. though I went through so many different sets of keyframes before I just decided to get the assignment done on this one.

the brick drop was possibly the second or third assignment, I can't really remember. but it's the same idea s the ball bounce, get the timing and spacing down, except a brick doesn't bounce as much as a ball... it breaks. (for this assignment it does anyway.)

the flour sack was fun, it took me a short ammount of time because I was at home just doing straight ahead animation (start with frame 1, then draw frame 2, 3, 4... et al.) which is a lot funner than pose to pose animation (draw frame 1, then frame 12 or a frame where there is an important pose... then fill in the drawing in between.) so this one was fun for me.

this animation got the most of my attention and took the longest time to complete. I am still not happy with it, but the end of semester was coming up on me fast and I still had to animate two things. (I skipped the flour sack and moved to this.)

well, this was the final assignment. sort of. there was one more that he gave us to choose from, but due to time constraints I chose to do a jump. it's not perfect, like all the rest. but it's a start.

render practice.

2007-10-08T11:25:00.000-06:00

I'vle been practicing my renderring abilities, and there was just this absolutely beautiful picture that I thought would be wonderful to draw, so tell me what you think of it, I hop eyou can recognize who it is.

you have been wondering, I know it

2007-09-25T12:58:00.000-06:00

alright, I know that all of you have been asking this question ever since you've met me, and it's just been burning a hole inside of you not knowing the answer! well, today the question that you all have just been dying to konw the answer for will be answered!
I suppose I should probably tell you what this question is exactly, ... well, I suppose you'll find out sooner or later anyways.

"what would Ryan look like as a woman?" now, I know you all have been asking this question in your head from the moment you met me, and I am here to give you the answer.

and since it's easier to show you, rather than tell you... here goes.
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am I gorgeous or what?

Anatomy and practice sketches!

2007-09-05T21:18:00.002-06:00

well, I've been drawing a bit up in college when I find the time so I don't get out of practice, and I'm trying hard to get better at it, and these are some of the pages form my sketch book. enjoy the peak into my life.

Demon Sculpture

2007-07-22T19:59:00.000-06:00

so, I got some clay, and some sculpting tools.

and I love it. sculpting relaxes me so much, so much more than drawing does. I don't know quite the reason why, but I really love it. I wish I could be a professional sculptor, but I don't think I'm good enough. anyways, onto the pictures!

Realism picture

2007-07-06T23:38:00.000-06:00

this is a picture of my friend holly hanks, the only reference I had was a 100X100 pixel image (freaking tiny) so it was difficult. my scanner is having issues, so this may be the only one you get for now.

I FIXED MY SCANNER! and the picture was rescanned, and that is what you see before you.