Pookie Art

Here’s Me:

You Are a Black and White Cookie

You’re often conflicted in life, and you feel pulled in two opposite directions. When you’re good, you’re sweet as sugar. And when you’re bad, you’re wicked!

EDM #9, "Organized Chaos".  EDM LINK 1, LINK 2.  Drawn w/ pencil in my Moleskine.

kw: moleskine, artwork, drawing, sketch, sketchbook, chaos, organized chaos, edm, everyday matters.

[[Edited to add: I can’t belive it, I uploaded the wrong thumbnail to Illustration Friday! Ugh! Sorry!]] = : o
For Illustration Friday’s "Communication" Challenge, a sketch of my Nokia N80 camera phone. Besides the obvious call-making, I text A LOT and moblog as well using the camera phone, photo editor, and internet on the phone.  Drawn w/ pencil in my Moleskine.

Photo of sketch:

Scan of sketch:

kw: illustration friday, cell phone, cameraphone, moblog, nokia n80, moleskine, sketchbook, sketch

I recently drew my "favorite item" which is EDM challenge #6 ("everyday matters"), a "toothy toad" hinged storage box I got off ebay several years ago.  The first try is here.  I was unhappy w/ it, so I wanted to do it again, but to improve my eye, I wanted to try doing pieces of it.  EDM link 1, link 2.   So tonight I finished this:

Photo:

Scan:

Fun!

kw: toothy toad, frog, monster, colored pencil, sketch, sketchbook, moleskine, edm, everyday matters. 

I got a MacBook I got a MacBook!  I’m so psyched!  They opened up a new Apple Store nearby and I finally got my MacBook.  I’ve been wanting one for a LONG time.    So last night I drew this little bit:

Photograph:

Scanned: 

Oh and, only after scanning it did I realize that I had written "iBook" when it’s realy a "MacBook" (yes, it matters, lol). 

kw: apple, mac, macintosh, laptop, ibook, macbook, notebook, moleskine, sketch, sketchbook 

I recently mentioned the mini colored pencils from Barnes and Noble that come in a little CD case.  Last night I did a test with both of the cd-case-sized ones and decided they are the same.  I did a test in the Mead Academie Sketchbook that I got, and also, of course, my Moleskine.  Here is a scan of the test…

… "small" being the ones on the right, and "larger" being the ones on the left in this picture-

ALSO, while I was not able to find these cd-case-sized items online, I did find that BN does have some of it’s art supplies online here.

kw: bn, barnes and noble, colored pencils, coloured pencils, cd case, color, moleskine, sketchbook

More from the archives.  Toronto skyline, stylized. 1998.

I’ll upload a couple more drawings from my archives today.  Here is one of a face that I started but never completed, in 1998.  It’s a small image, small drawing.

Barnes and Noble has a bunch of cool, portable art supplies.  I love their little colored pencils that come in the CD case.  Today I got the water colors to try.

I actually took a lot of pix of what they have at BN and will uplod them in a minute they are here:

public.fotki.com/laserone/2007/02-february/2007-02-27-bn-art-s/

Check it out.

I had commented in a few places that I thought there was a difference between the two cases of colored pencils that Barnes and Noble sells that comes in CD cases.  I was wrong.  I did a test tonight in both my Moleskine and my Meade Sketchblog and I’m sure now that they’re the same.  Now, off to bed.

Drew this before bed last night in the Meade sketchbook I am trying out-

Huh, this is something!  Just a couple days ago I was looking at coffe ring on paper and wondered what would happen if someone tried to make art out of it, i.e. paint with it.  Then today I just found this:

JustCoffeeArt.com

I decided to do EDM #5, Draw Your Bed.  I wanted to sit ON my bed, so this is my view from ON the bed.  That’s not the headboard, that’s a sideboard that goes only partially down the sides (it’s a trundle bed opened up).  The Pug decided to sit in and so he got in the picture.  I really have a hard time drawing people/animals from life.  I prefer drawing animals from photos. 

EDITED TO ADD: This is the first drawing in a long time that was not drawn in my moleskine. I bought a Mead Academie sketchbook to try. It’s not as portable as my Moleskine, but I just wanted to try some different paper. 

EDITED TO ADD:  What I saw while drawing last night… 

Just for fun, here is one of my Homework assignments from 1998.  I had to darken it but when I did, it just got dirty looking, so I ended up just darking two parts of it (the darker oval areas).

Here is an incomplete drawing from 1998, of a leggy lady.  I want to get a Wacom drawing tablet (hint! hint!) so that I can maybe complete this one, or at least darken the light unfinished lines.  The second scan is a blown-out version so that you can see the light lines that make up the rest of the pre-sketch.  This was done on copy paper with pencil, as were most of my drawings from that time.