Sketchavember Days 24-30

The final 6 days of Sketchavember. I went back to pencil and paper drawings, I was too lazy to scan and upload them all and then they just...multiplied LOL. 

Sketchavember was a fun learning experience, but closer to the end it became very mentally exhausting and more and more sketches lacked creativity. On top of that, I started doing two drawings in a day because I couldn't come up with anything the day before, or I wasn't home, etc. I don't think I'd do Sketchavember again next year, but I'm glad I at least tried it this year. 

Sketchavember Day 24

 Sketchavember Day 25

 Sketchavember Day 26 - A monster design, I was going for the ballet teacher look.

 Sketchavember Day 27 - An idea for a holiday picture.

 Sketchavember Day 28

 Sketchavember Day 29

Sketchavember Day 30

Sketchavember Day 23

Sketchavember Day 23 - Photoshop 7.0

I'm running out of ideas of what to draw. So I drew a Kikwi from Skyward Sword. I LOVE Kikwis.
(Kikwis and other Legend of Zelda characters are (c) Nintendo and other respectful owners)

Sketchavember Day 22

Sketchavember Day 22 - Photoshop 7.0

I wanted to do a lot more with this, but the neck just isn't up for it tonight.

Sketchavember 20 and 21

 Sketchavember 20 - Photoshop 7.0
Skyward Sword came out on the twentieth....SO of course I was way too distracted to draw :P
Photoshop was running incredibly slowly on this one....

Sketchavember 21 - Photoshop 7.0
Photoshop running better this time...I have to stop double posting LOL

Sketchavember Days 17/18 and 19

 Sketchavember Days 17/18 - Photoshop 7.0
I forgot to upload this on here the other day. I was working on the skin, lines and face for the mermaid picture.

Sketchavember Day 19 - Photoshop 7.0
The one thing with this "sketch a day" thing, you run out of ideas. Quickly. So I decided to just color more.

Sketchavember Day 16

Sketchavember 16 - Photoshop 7.0

Just a simple mermaid sketch, had a long day today so I'm too tired to go into much detail. Did a little bit more focus on body (torso and arms...not so much hands haha). Not sure what she's looking at, I didn't think that far LOL.

Sketchavember Day 15

Sketchavember Day 15 - Photoshop 7.0

Just a simple sketch to relax, I've  been working on a few pictures today so just a sketch for today's Sketchavember.

Sketchavember Day 14

Sketchavember Day 14 - Photoshop 7.0

Yet ANOTHER portrait style study, with slightly better coloring imo. A part of a larger picture that I hope to finish...someday. And yes, I'm 20 minutes late but I was so busy working on the hair and lost track of time LOL.

Sketchavember Day 13

Sketchavember Day 13 - Photoshop 7.0

I "cheated" again, and colored yesterday's Sketchavember LOL. I think I'm doing better with the digital coloring.

Sketchavember Day 12

Sketchavember Day 12 - Photoshop 7.0

Just more portrait work, I think I'm slowly starting to get the hang of portraits.

Sketchavember Day 11

Sketchavember Day 11 - Photoshop 7.0

Just another face study, there WAS a body to this one but I didn't feel like working on it so I stuck with the face.

Sketchavember Day 10

Sketchavember Day 10 - Photoshop 7.0

An update of the previous picture, the face much more done than before. Does an update of a moving-along picture count? Is that cheating? Oh well, I don't care LOL I'm being creative.

Sketchavember Day 8 and 9

Sketchavember Day 8 - Pencil
I just plain didn't feel like fighting with my scanner to upload this yesterday haha.

Sketchavember Day 9 - Photoshop

Practicing more with my digital coloring. I might continue the rest of Sketchavember practicing my digital coloring skills, I'm really not pleased with how I paint in photoshop (my own fault for not practicing it enough....)

Sketchavember 7

Sketchavember 7 - Photoshop

Something VERY different, I know. practicing a little bit of digital coloring since I thought I've posted way too many unfinished sketches and black and white work. So I went with this. It's funny, I can shade and color a face in every medium but this one easily. I guess I should be doing more digital experiments, practice makes perfect.

Sketchavember Day 6

Sketchavember Day 6 - Mechanical Pencil

Even though I wasn't at home or anywhere near a scanner, I did have time to draw a quick doodle for Sketchavember and took an iPod photo of it. A day late posting again, I should probably see if there's an app for blogspot so I can upload here too even while not at home or near a computer. Sketchavember 7'll be up later today.

Sketchavember Days 3, 4 and 5

Sketchavember Day 3 - Pencil.

I'm not sure why Blogspot wouldn't let me upload any images :/ so here I'm three days behind. In this picture, I was just simply working on profile views, another not-so-strong suit of mine in art. Excuse the crappy ipod photo, I had actually forgotten about Sketchavember right as I went to bed, so I quick got up and sketched the first thing that came to mind. LOL.

Sketchavember Day 4 - Photoshop 7.0

Just a screenshot of a picture I was hoping to finish one day. I wanted to go in a different direction than this one. I might start over until I get the result I was envisioning.

Sketchavember Day 5 - Micron Pens over pencil sketch

I wasn't feeling it today honestly. I normally try to think of what I want to draw throughout the day until I settle on something or become inspired. But not today (except for the creepy ballerina heels...). So I just shut off my brain and let my pen and music do the talking.

Problems uploading...

:/ can't seem to upload Sketchavember Days 3 and 4 right now...hopefully it'll work for Day 5....;;

Sketchavember Day 2

Sketchavember Day 2 - Mechanical Pencil and other Pencils

Just another simple sketch, this time of my favorite Russian fairytale protagonist Vasilisa from my favorite Russian fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful. Portrait style faces aren't my strong suit so I thought Sketchavember sketches would be perfect to try it (since the idea of Sketchavember is to not worry about perfection, just to enjoy the creativity). Though some of the proportions of the features are off, I'm rather proud of the face.

Sketchavember Day 1

Day 1 Sketchavember 2011 - Mechanical Pencil

This year I decided to participate in the annual "Sketchavember" challenge. Basically, every day for the month of November, you create a doodle or finished art piece. Mine was something very simple for the first day, nothing fancy. Plus I had no music to work with until the very end, working in silence is very difficult for me LOL.