doodle haus

self portrait with markers and pencils

2009-04-21T07:22:00.000-07:00

Ed Emberley book drawings

2009-04-02T20:01:00.000-07:00

daily doodle

2009-03-26T18:17:00.000-07:00

ok, i got inspired to draw more frequently again. (thanks to danidraws.com)

every day i'm going to try to draw something just for the sake of drawing, in order to try to get better and more facile with it.

what a handsome woman.

2007-09-13T14:00:00.000-07:00

shair

2007-09-04T13:44:00.001-07:00

another drawing exercise. this one's supposed to make you concentrate on negative shapes.

hand drawing exercise

2007-08-18T19:59:00.000-07:00

this is the first time i've actually read and used the famous book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and the exercises are really interesting. I'd never tried "toning" the paper before doing a drawing, but it makes your highlights stand out like crazy! I think I went a little overboard; hopefully i can do better than this in the future. Below it is a plastic picture plane that I made. In order to do this exercise you need to use that.

name that face

2007-05-11T10:57:00.000-07:00

trying likenesses again, whose lovable mug do you think this is?

laurel's anger

2007-03-28T08:43:00.000-07:00

laurel was in a bad mood yesterday, and i think i captured it accurately:

comic Laurel and I did last week

2006-12-16T13:06:00.000-08:00

copied from William Morris book

2006-12-16T13:04:00.000-08:00

yellow guy

2006-11-05T15:07:00.000-08:00

white guy

2006-11-05T15:05:00.000-08:00

shoes

2006-11-05T15:03:00.000-08:00

super frank 4

2006-11-05T14:56:00.000-08:00

super frank 3

2006-11-03T16:30:00.000-08:00

super frank 2

2006-11-03T16:28:00.000-08:00

super frank 1

2006-11-03T16:24:00.000-08:00

Ladbroke Grove in London

2006-10-20T12:35:00.000-07:00

sippin' a guinness and drawin' on a drink napkin

sunny day at the park this past Sat

2006-10-02T19:10:00.000-07:00

went to the park specifically to draw, only did one drawing but this is it.

doodle done in meeting at work recently

2006-10-01T08:20:00.000-07:00

subway sketches

2006-08-17T16:22:00.000-07:00

it's been a while since I posted...!

buildings on Houston St. last night

2006-04-30T21:07:00.000-07:00

my friend Mike just showed me how to separate your lines from the white of the background digitally, but a way better way than I've ever tried before, and it allows color to work much better. Thanks, Mike!

buildings on Houston St. last night

2006-04-30T08:31:00.000-07:00

I was waiting for my friend in front of the Mercury for an hour last night, but I didn't mind, b/c I wanted to finish this drawing!

subway drawerings

2006-04-30T08:20:00.000-07:00

More subway drawings? Enough already!

copying from animals book

2006-04-26T11:45:00.000-07:00

subway drawerings

2006-04-23T19:13:00.000-07:00

cardboardistry

2006-04-22T16:48:00.000-07:00

hey,

I finally got on it and made a freestanding website for my cardboard art. Lookit:
http://www.cardboardistry.com/

tell me what you think... and maybe how fast it loads and if anything's broke, k?

later,
p

name that celebrity

2006-04-21T05:12:00.000-07:00

name that celebrity

2006-04-20T13:35:00.000-07:00

again!

name that celebrity

2006-04-20T13:31:00.001-07:00

and again

name that celebrity

2006-04-20T13:31:00.000-07:00

and again

name that celebrity

2006-04-20T13:28:00.000-07:00

and again

anyone?

2006-04-19T09:09:00.000-07:00

name that celebrity II (*note - her eyes really did look that crazy in the source pic)

trey!

2006-04-18T21:03:00.000-07:00

i don't know if I can talk shit about your self portrait, seeing as I can't seem to capture you either... does this look like you, Trey?

tarded hands 2

2006-04-18T18:09:00.000-07:00

this is Amy and her girlfriend Amy's hands, together. aww.

reclining

2006-04-18T16:11:00.000-07:00

tarded hands

2006-04-18T15:13:00.000-07:00

these are my friend Amy's hands, from snapshots I took at a bar in January - I don't know why!

funny face

2006-04-18T06:25:00.000-07:00

this is what happens when you rig up a mirror for facial expression reference.

the park today

2006-04-17T17:04:00.000-07:00

nude

2006-04-17T16:23:00.000-07:00

ballpoint pen and marker

hot girl

2006-04-16T17:51:00.000-07:00

attempt #2

hot girl

2006-04-16T17:19:00.000-07:00

this is me trying to loosen up and draw a hot girl for once.

self portrait

2006-04-16T16:10:00.000-07:00

kinda scary i know

shark parcel

2006-04-16T14:43:00.000-07:00

here's a doodle I did on a package I sent to a friend yesterday.

self portrait

2006-04-16T12:19:00.000-07:00

i know i look like a crotchety old crazy in this pic, but maybe i AM.

owlz

2006-04-14T14:35:00.000-07:00

trying to draw owls from memory

anyone?

2006-04-12T10:16:00.000-07:00

name that celebrity

2006-03-11T07:42:00.000-08:00

hand colored background?

2006-03-11T07:40:00.000-08:00

or computer colored?

hands

2006-03-11T07:03:00.000-08:00

skulls

2006-03-09T15:53:00.000-08:00

i heard drawing skulls makes you draw faces better.

my friend Amber

2006-03-01T06:41:00.000-08:00

a political cartoon!

2006-02-22T22:02:00.000-08:00

shirt design i just finished

2006-02-20T12:12:00.000-08:00

Subway lately

2006-02-01T17:45:00.000-08:00

keep in mind it's hard as hell to draw on the subway - it's always shakin' all over the place...

Trey Moss

2006-01-22T15:51:00.000-08:00

this is a damn funny drawing my friend Trey Moss did when we lived together, probably in 1991, or maybe even as early as 1989(!). by the way his (brand spankin' new) sketchblog is here

some singer

2006-01-22T09:39:00.000-08:00

can't remember who this young lady is, someone i copied out of US magazine, about a month or two ago.

murdock

2006-01-21T13:57:00.000-08:00

this is a pic I drew about a month ago, of Ryan's dog Murdock, sleeping. I like drawing animals.

boots on the subway

2006-01-12T11:26:00.000-08:00

i love this shit

2006-01-10T09:45:00.000-08:00

there are so many different, interesting-looking people on the subway, ALL the time.

my friend rhian

2006-01-08T11:58:00.000-08:00

2005-12-28T07:52:00.000-08:00

trip sketches

2005-12-20T08:39:00.000-08:00

charicatures from work

2005-12-19T20:24:00.000-08:00

So now i'm done working on Scanner (7 months!), snif - sucks that it's over b/c it's the best job I ever had... but in commemoration here are a few charicactures i drew of my coworkers:

keif

2005-12-08T20:49:00.000-08:00

another from that show

2005-12-08T20:48:00.000-08:00

drawings of club crowd

2005-12-04T14:55:00.000-08:00

I went to a rock show Friday night and took some pictures of people, then drew these:

the guy was hand-colored w/markers, the crowd was computer-colored.

color experiment and dumb heads

2005-12-02T18:30:00.000-08:00

2005-12-01T05:56:00.000-08:00

alright, here are some more doodles. i've been trying to practice drawing hair, cuz hair's hard (to draw).

more doodles from dumb magazines

2005-11-29T09:58:00.000-08:00

i know there's a good chance these aren't the finest drawings you've seen, but the point is i'm doing them regularly, which is great. one of my drawing goals is to get better at drawing hot ladies, which i feel i've always kind of sucked at. also here is the paris /donald drawing, but colored. i think i went overboard a little, w/the color.

2005-11-26T09:56:00.000-08:00

So here it is - my first sketch blog post! I'm putting my doodles out there for everyone to critique, so that I might use said criticism to get better. So i've taken to drawing pictures of celebrities from US magazine lately, with pretty reliably funny results. here's a few I did yesterday: