Sign of snow captured today on my way to work. I sort of missed the whole snow day this past Saturday. Although, I caught the early snow fall late Friday night, early Saturday morning on the way home and if the snow wasn’t so entrancing, I might have had the mindfulness to capture it.
Dream car 11.
Drawing from a photo of Manny Pacquiao vs. Oscar De La Hoya.
Redrew Diaz & did the referee on this one.
Here’s another stab at the same photo of Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao vs. David “Dangerous” Diaz w/o the referee b/c I was so eager to share this w/ everyone. Drawing w/ actual pencil and paper this time. It’s more messy, but more fun, I think. It’s terrific when I get the likeness of someone in one go and in one fluid stroke, sorta speak, which is what gesture drawing is, I guess. But, more often than not, an eraser is my best friend.
A sketch I did this evening using a pen tablet from a photo of Manny Pacquaio knocking out David Diaz. Not sure what I will do with it, yet. I am just practicing hand-eye-coordination using a pen tablet. Drawing with a pen tablet is like learning how to draw all over again. But, I think I am getting the hang of it. What I really like though is that boxing is exciting again because of Manny Pacquiao. And this excites me more than usual because he is from the country I was born in and lived for the first 10 years of my life. So, I know what it is like over there. And, one of the things I remember being big over there was boxing. I think I saw the Tyson vs. Spinks fight there with a mass of other people huddled around one TV. I, myself, often box in my head and drawing makes this a reality.
I think I am 95% done. I have been working (more like coloring) on it for 2 straight days now. Next week is when I return to work. Besides illustrating, I have been gaming a lot (ModernWarfare2) and sleeping a lot. I look forward to actually drinking and smoking soon, instead, of just drawing it.
So, I’ve begun sketching and this is the first rough draft of Art Battle No. 9 with the words “Beer,” “Bikini” & “Blast” as the theme. As you can see, my mind still drifts to that place where I have spent a precious amount of time. My heart loves it, my eyes love it and my mind loves it. What else do I need? Nada is what….
My friend and I are going to bring back Art Battle this month being that I have a little bit of free time on my hands at the moment. Also, a person can only play videogames for so long in 2 weeks.
The year 2009 photorized at 2X the speed of sight.
