My Digital Drawing of a Twitter Bird

I’ve been participating in MacHeist 3 this year (more about MacHeist). On completion of the latest mission you gained access to a copy of Scribbles by software developer, atebits. Atebits is also responsible for bringing the best Twitter app to the iPhone/iPod Touch, Tweetie, which I use and you should too.

I’ve made a promise recently to myself to start drawing more by doing a drawing a day. Now I haven’t kept myself to that but I do the best I can with the time I have. So I decided to test run Scribbles by creating my very own Twitter bird to enhance my little Twitter update in the sidebar of my Web site.

Scribbles is, in a word, AWESOME! It couldn’t be simpler to use. It very responsive and gets out of your way to allow you to focus on your art. It has an infinite canvas so you need not worry about page size. It has very well crafted brushes and the color picker is awesome.

Scribbles reminds me a lot of Brushes for the iPhone/iPod Touch which I’m also a user of that too. I highly recommend Scribbles. If you check it out please let me know what you think of it in the comments.

My First Digital Inking and Coloring

Honestly, I think this is not that great in terms of showing my skills but I think it’s a damn fine first go at digital inking. Especially, considering that I’ve always hated traditional inking.

I have a long way to go before I think I’ll ever be happy with my style but I think that’s true with any artist. If we were ever truly happy then what would push us to get better? Chocolate? Probably.

Thanks Brian for all your words of encouragement whether you meant them to be that or not.

Pirate

My daughter went to a birthday on October 30 that had a pirate theme. All of the kids were giving these incredible little treasure chests that had an eye patch, bandana, telescope and other little novelty items a pirate might have while sailing at sea.

This inspired me to draw a pirate. No references, jut what I could come up with from my imagination. The only thing I didn’t do was name the pirate. Below is my sketch and the inked version. If you can come up with a name for the pirate that would be great.

Spider-man: Black & White

This is a drawing I did of my favorite comic book character. It turned out much better than I thought it would. I sat down and gave myself 15 minutes to sketch a pose, refine the pencil and then ink it using my Faber Castell PITT Artist Pens. I’m really pleased with the results.

I’ll be coloring the drawing later in the week and will post the results.

Backpack for Fundraiser - Poster

This is the final poster design of the backpack I drew for the fundraiser. I blurred the text because I don’t like publishing who I’m employed with. Nothing serious, just a thing I have.

If you look closely at the soap dispenser you’ll notice that I added some liquid soap which was not present in the previous sample. You may want to click on the image to see a larger view.