I was cleaning off my computer yesterday and found one of my first pieces I tried to do digitally. It's a bad illustration of Disney's Tinkerbell. I can't remember why I drew this in the first place but my girlfriend now is a big fan of the character, so I thought I might update it a bit for her.
To me drawing on the computer is hard. It takes a lot more planning then just puting pencil to paper. For me it's takes rounds and rounds to get something I like. Here is just two of these rounds to get my final line art.
Right now my work space is getting a revamp, so there's not to much to say, but I'm tied.
Here is a sketch I started a few months ago. I always have a stack of drawings just laying around, whether it's at home where they are scattered all over my desk or at work where I have a stack of about 30 or 40 sheets. Well, this morning when I was trying to think of something to draw to get myself warmed up for the day I saw my old doodles, just reached over and pulled from the bottom and here is the image that came out. I quickly inked it, adding a lot of the heavy dark shadows, scanned it and finally added a little color in PhotoShop.
Wow! I'm glad that stack finally came in handy.
The best time for me to do my quick sketching is all the in-between times at work. When a file is opening I lean over and draw a quick couple of lines. It's amazing what you can do with a minute here and a minute there. The printer is spooling a large InDesign file or maybe you're opening a 75mb PSD these are all good times to put the pencil to paper and get a quick idea out, but the trick is being able to stop. I don't know how I do it but I'm able to go from drawing mode back to design mode quickly so this works from me. This drawing took me all of 15 or 20 minutes every so often through out an eight hour day, so give it a shot and see what you come up with.
