I got thinking about auks, and that led me to draw this:
If this makes no sense to you, may I recommend this Wikipedia page?
Aukward.
animals
Readin’ with Sasquatch
Here’s the final art for my Powell’s tote bag submission. I really liked it, but it didn’t crack the top 10. Since a very similar idea did make the top 10 (and was way less cute, in my humble opinion) I have a feeling my design was passed over because I didn’t make the Powell’s logo big enough. Whatever! At least I got a nice little portfolio piece out of the contest.
More Sasquatch!
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Sasquatch because he’s the main component of an image I created for a tote bag design contest at Powell’s books. Here’s my linework for the submission – next week I’ll upload the color version (which is looking pretty adorable so far!)
Tuesday Afternoon Comics!
A sort of continuation of last week’s “Adventures of Tiny Worm” comic. Tiny Worm not pictured.
Materials: Micron Pens, Prismacolor Markers
Thursday Afternoon Comics!
I wanted to make a cute and simple comic. That resulted in “The Adventures of Tiny Worm”:
Keep an eye out for more comics from me in the upcoming month. I have time to draw these things now!
Materials: Sakura pen, Prismacolor Markers
Bird-Brained
Now that I’m finding myself with free time (almost too much free time – I’m still looking for summer employment because I need to work more than one day a week) I have more time to draw. I often have a hard time figuring out what I want to draw, which is why I really like Selfless Portraits – when you agree to participate, they send you the profile picture of someone else using the app on Facebook, so you get to draw someone else’s portrait. You need to do it fairly quickly too – within 48 hours.
It’s a good exercise, though I don’t know if my random stranger is going to like my portrait. I found his features to be quite birdlike (especially his hair), so I just turned him into a bird. It’s not a very representational portrait, that’s for sure:
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| The poor, random boy assigned to me |
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| The resulting portrait |
Pretty crazy. But it was a fun exercise. Now I’m awaiting the portrait some random stranger drew of me. Perhaps that artist has turned me into an animal as well.
Materials: Sakura pens, Prismacolor markers
Friday Afternoon Comics: Drunk Bear
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| Your bear drinks beer! |
A bit of back story about this image – I started using a free online program to refresh my Spanish a few weeks ago. The program’s called Duolingo, and it’s quite an excellent learning tool, especially since it’s totally free. One of the most entertaining parts of re-learning Spanish on Duolingo is translating the sometimes-wacky sentences they give you.
I’m not sure when I’ll ever need this particular line, but it makes learning a bit more fun.
Materials: pen
A Week of Gnomes: Day Two
Day two of the 365 challenge: Use your favorite animal as inspiration for today.
My favorite animals are elephants, so somehow that inspired jousting gnomes on bitty baby elephants.
The linework!
All colored in!
A slightly nicer version of the final art.
Materials used: pen, Prismacolor markers, recycled paper, white acrylic ink & brush
More gnome action tomorrow!
Portlandia!
I will be leaving Portland for a short span of time to spend the holidays with my family, but I love this quirky little city so this week’s posts are Portland-related.
This image is something I made for my friend who has recently left Portland for somewhere in Colorado, so I wanted to send her off with a slice of Portlandia. I tried to think of the most “Portland-y” thing I could think of. According to my brain that was a hipster elk/deer thing riding a bicycle past Powell’s Bookstore while drinking a PBR.
This is how it turned out:
If this image captures even a fraction of Portland’s oddness, I consider it a success.
Materials used: pens, watercolor, colored pencil
I really hope Megan got this in the mail by now and I didn’t totally spoil the surprise by posting on here…
Erika Schnatz 