Pookie Art

Photoshop, wacom grahire tabet, and a lot of tears. 

I had to share this because I’ve drawn peeps before, I saw this on CuteOverload.com-

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Sunday night we went to Denny’s (again) for a late-night dinner.  I drew this while looking at the sugar holder (rather than while looking at the photo) but I almost always at least take a photo in case the subject disappears.  I mean, you never know, right?  One time M. and I were at a Chinese Buffet and he cracked open his fortune cookie and AS it hit the plate, a server came by and swooped the plate away SO FAST.  He never even got to reach for the forture, let alone read it.  So, I took a pic, because you never know when the server will come by and replace the sugar holder w/ one that is more full or something, thus changing the drawing subject.

Drawn in my moleskine.  I hope/plan to go  back and color it w/ colored pencil.

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My flat tire.  While going to the vet to pick up my Pug, I got a flat.  While waiting for AAA, I took photos and drew in my moleskine.

EDITED TO ADD: Check out this blog post to see what was found inside the tire!  The guys at Tire Choice put it up on their "Wall Of Fame"!  LOL   

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Ok, well I finished one of the many things I am working on. It’s a drawing of my Paul Frank monkey watch that I did using ArtRage2 on my Wacom Graphire drawing tablet.  This for Everyday Matters challenge #8; "Draw your watch or other piece of jewelry".  Actually, I did most of this drawing using ArtRage2 on my tablet laptop with the touchscreen (Fujitsu P1510) so that it was like virtual drawing, and then finished it off on the Wacom tablet connected to my main computer.

EDITED TO ADD: I wanted to say THANKS SO MUCH to all of you who comment here on my blog, it really gives me a lift and inspiration!  Hugs to you all!   

I hate to write a post w/ no artwork, but I wanted to say I have some stuff in the works and I’m psyched.  I drew an illustration today that I am proud of, and just have to finish coloring it on the computer.  I don’t know why but I’m really pleased with it.  I also have to finish my watch sketch that I am doing in Art Rage.  Then today I took my dog to the vet to get sedated and have his ears cleaned.  Not only do I have fantastic scope photographs of his inner ear to use on a journal page, but I also got a flat tire on the way to pick him up.  While waiting for AAA to come and assist me, I drew my flat tire and just want to finish the coloring before posting it online.

So I’m drawing!  Images coming soon.   

I picked up a boat load of Sharpie and Bic markers.  I wanted to do a moleskine journal page where I filled every square inch w/ color.  I did this in Sharpie Markers and colored pencil.

Photo of moleskine:

Scan: 

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This is for Illustration Friday.  Topic = "Total".  I went with "total eclipse".  I did this on the computer using ArtRage2 and my new Wacom Graphire 6x8 tablet.  Illustration Friday link viewer for current topic, here.   Illustration Friday archive of topics, here.

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I wanted to do another Peep drawing in my Moleskine.  This time a single peep that I spent more time on.  It’s pencil, colored pencil, and white pastel.  It’s hard to get different values when the peep itself, even w/ shadows, isn’t really very varied.  I’m also going to share some fun PEEP LINKS below.

Photo of Moleskine:

Scan:

What is a Peep?  Basically extruded marshmallow in the vague shape of a chick, covered in colored sugar.  There are other shapes (like bunnies) and many colors. 

Official site: MarshmallowPeeps.com

Here are some of my favorite pictures taken by other people of peeps… some artistic, some funny:

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It’s fun to go to flickr.com and look at all photos tagged "peeps": flickr.com/photos/tags/peeps 

A couple years ago, we decided it’d be fun to grill a Peep.  Here are photos from that day/experiment.  You can start at the first photo and see the progression of the Peep sample. 

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Peeps make me smile.

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I was inspired by this photo WHICH IS NOT MINE but I admire it a lot:
www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=313031360&size=s
… and so I painted this in ArtRage: 

I still have a lot to learn, but this was fun doing.

EDITED TO ADD: Now that I look at it more zoomed-out, I see that my brain really likes symmetry!  The big cloud is orbited almost perfectly by smaller clouds in a circle.  It’s amazing what my brain does when I’m not paying attention! 

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I have been playing w/ ArtRage2 Free and just tonight decided to buy the full version so I can have all the toys.  ArtRage is SO fun and I have a bit of a learning curve to make my computer drawings look as good (good?) as my analog (paper and pencil) drawings.  But it’s fun.  VERY fun. 

I’ve decided that the paper in the "Black And White Patterned Sketchbook" is WAAAaaaay too thin for drawing (or writing!).  My pencil poked straight through when writing my phone # on the first page and drawing on the paper was like drawing on a napkin.  Don’t think I’ll be using this one much!  My favorite is still my Moleskine.  But anyway, I did a little journal entry / sketch.  I’ve been thinking "I want to draw this one church" and then tonight found a photo of yet a second local church that I’d like to draw.  I want to draw these churches because they are weird.

flickr.com/photos/laserone/420865463/ 

I’m going to re-draw this on some better paper.  Oh, by the way I am working on EDM #8 "Draw a Watch", I am doing in ArtRage2 on my tiny tablet laptop.  It’s not done yet tho’.   

The Moleskine is my favorite sketchbook.  But  because I wanted to try out some different types of paper, I picked up a few other sketchooks from Barnes and Noble, ones w/ dark and/or textured paper.  On this blog, each post has a category.  To keep things organized, and mainly for my own reference, I’ll create a new category for each sketchbook.  (If I end up w/ a million different sketchbooks in progress then I will have to change the system.)

The Pink leaf sketchbook has really rough paper.  The "B&W patterned" sketchbook has tan, rough paper, and the "Leafy Bamboo" sketchbook has rough paper.  So I guess I’ll create these categories for when I draw in these sketchbooks.