#11 - Drawing from memory

My strength has always been drawing from photographs.  I like to recreate from magazines or photos I've taken myself, or to draw cartoons and Disney characters that already exist.  If I'm going to illustrate a story about Violet, I realize I will need to draw some original content... so, I attempted to draw Violet and capture her 'character' from memory...

Day 9 - or #10.

So... I haven't been doing to well with "a doodle a day".  I may have enough doodles to match the amount of days since I started this project, but I'll admit I have sat down and drawn 2 or 3 in one afternoon.  So from this point, I'm going to try and get my act together, but I'll start labeling my posts by doodle # rather than by day.

This doodle was drawn on a Sunday afternoon while Bob was cooking, the norm in our house.  I drew again upon my Life Drawing classes... it's amazing how some of these excercises come right back.

Day 8

I've been talking about illustrating a book for some time now.  I have a few solid ideas, and one of them is based on our dog Violet.  Violet doesn't sit long enough for you to snap a photograph, so I shouldn't have been surprised when she couldn't sit long enough for a sketch.  When she layed down for nap, I thought I finally had her!  But having the windows open on a sunny afternoon was not conducive to puppies taking naps.  She was up and running before I got very far...  I thought back to my Life Drawing classes in college and decided to do some quick thumbnail sketches of Violet in action.

 

Day 7 - Meet Bob

This is Bob - the Boy, my fiancé.  I'll be honest I've been a bit intimidated to draw him before this.  He had asked a couple of times, but I tackled drawings of the animals first, I can't hurt their feelings with a bad likeness. 

I knew I wanted to use color, so I broke out the crayons. I started easy with a cartoon drawing... which he loved (thank goodness).  Then I moved on to something I've wanted to try for awhile, using color and drawing by shading instead of lines.  I've done this in B&W before, but never with color.  I think he turned out alright? ...and he didn't seem to mind I used purple.