'In the Zone' | Daily Drawing #270
The elusive ‘zone’. So hard to get there, and once you’re in it you hope you never leave.
Tools: Tombow Dual Brush Pen, Kuretake Bimoji Felt Tip Brush Pen
If You Dream of Beating Me, You'd Better Wake Up and Apologize
'If You Dream of Beating Me, You'd Better Wake Up and Apologize' | Daily Drawing #269
A quote from the Greatest Badass of the 20th Century, Muhammad Ali.
Tools: Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.
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Real Wealth Is Never Having to Spend Time With Assholes
'Real Wealth is Not Having to Spend Time With Assholes' | Daily Drawing #268
Your Monday inspiration, a quote from director John Waters.
Tools: Pentel Arts Pocket Brush Pen.
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The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do in Life is Play it Safe
'The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do in Life is Play it Safe' | Daily Drawing #267
A quote from filmmaker Casey Neistat.
Tools: Kuretake Bimjoi Felt Tip Brush Pen, Staedtler Pigment Liner
Do The Work
'Do The Work' | Daily Drawing # 266
Success won't fall into your lap, especially if you're laying on the sofa. Get up, get it done, put in the hours.
Keep Your Head in the Clouds
'Keep Your Head in the Clouds' | Daily Drawing #265
Tools: Tombow Dual Brush Marker, Kuretake Bumoji Felt Tip Brush Pen
Take Action
'Take Action' | Daily Drawing #262
Testing out a workflow using the using the Adobe Shape app. Lettered with Zebra WF3 Scientific Brush (Medium).
Earth Day
'Earth Day' | Daily Drawing #261
It's a Brand New Day
'It's a Brand New Day' | Daily Drawing #260
Tools: Target brand Broad Tip Marker (they're the cheaper cousin to the Crayola Classic Markers. Great for practice).
Some People Feel the Rain, Others Just Get Wet
'Some People Feel the Rain, Others Just Get Wet' | Daily Drawing #259
Tools: Pentel Pocket Brush Pen
Why
'Why' | Daily Drawing #258
Calligraffiti style using a Copic Wide Extra Broad marker.
Never Had a Bad Day
'Never Had a Bad Day' | Daily Drawing #257
If anyone ever tells you this, they're a goddamned liar.
Today was, in fact, not a great day. On top of car, tax and technology issues, there was also an emergency trip to the vet.
But, we're all good and will live to fight another day.
Tools: Freeform sketch on paper, inked and scanned. Composite in Photoshop.
Cut the sides, don't touch the back!
'Cut the Sides, Don't Touch the Back!' | Daily Drawing #256
A tribute to the greatest American hairstyle.
The hairstyle has been around forever in one form or another but legend has it the term 'mullet' was coined and popularized by the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head" (Ill Communication):
You're coming off like you're Van Damme
You've got Kenny G, in your Trans Am
You've got names like Billy Ray
Now you sing 'Hip Hop Hooray'
Put your Oakley's, stone wash on
Watching MTV and you watch on
And #1 on the side and don't touch the back
And #6 on the top and don't cut it wack, Jack
Mullet head, don't touch the back
Cut the sides, don't touch the back
I'm Not Rich But I'm Doing OK
'I'm Not Rich But I'm Doing OK' | Daily Drawing #255.
I'll just keep repeating this phrase as I file my taxes.
Tools: I did the base lettering with a Mary Le Plume II Brush Pen. I then traced over the brush marks with pencil, correcting and accentuating stroke lines. Then I scanned the tracing paper and pulled it into Photoshop for further correction and adjustment. I printed out the traced lines at a larger size, and traced over them with the Sakura Pigma Sensei pens. Scanned, cleaned up, then vector traced in Illustrator.
This sounds like a lot of steps - but because the style is so loose, the entire process took me less than an hour. I actually spend more time cleaning up the file and deciding on colors (which I'm still not sold on, I'm going to make other versions of this).
Lust for Life
'Lust for Life' | Daily Drawing #254
Tools: I started with large, loose sketches. The sketches were inked with a set of Sakura Pigma Sensei markers, which are actually sold as Manga drawing pens. This set has fine nibs as well as a large 1.00mm nib which made it easy to fill in large areas. Scanned then vector traced in Illustrator.
Decide. Commit. Succeed.
'Decide. Commit. Succeed.' | Daily Drawing #253
You'll never be successful if you don't decide what you really want. And no success ever comes without commitment.
Tools: The script was done with a Marvy LePlume II Brush Marker I received in this months Art Snacks (nice pen, funny name), then traced and touched up with my Staedler Pigment Liners.
Living Large
'Living Large' | Daily Drawing #252
Tools: Zig Millenium .005 Pen
Play Ball!
'Play Ball!' | Daily Drawing #251
Today is Opening Day for Phillies baseball. I think we can finally say Winter is officially over.
Tools: Flat brush with Liquitex Acrylic on paper. The painted letters were shot with my phone then adjusted in Photoshop. I intentionally overexposed the image to show the rough strokes. Photo was taken Opening Day 2014.
Thanks Easter Bunny! Bock! Bock!
A quickie Hyperlapse drawing for Easter.
Have a good holiday, go eat the ears off of your chocolate bunnies.
Creature of Bad Habits
'Creature of Bad Habits' | Daily Drawing #250
Tools: Flair pen on paper, just how I did it in the old days. Influenced by the style of R. Crumb.