Sketch-a-Day
This is inspired by the limbless furry plush toy on the dash of my car. Why is it so angry? It's been sitting, limbless for almost five years either freezing or roasting in the sun. It also took me three years to figure out it squeeked when squeezed.
That is one under-appreciated plush toy.
Why would I sketch the Doctor, you ask? Because I have an idea, I answer. Stay tuned.
I'm trying not to feel forced to push these beyond a simple sketch, yet I find myself compelled to have a name and explanation behind each. Not tonight. It's just some chick with big hair. Looks like she got stood up.
This one merits a bit of explanation. My brother, who put in the request for this on Facebook, has been borderline obsessed with a Jawa who is also a Jedi, hence forming a Jadi. I used inks on this one because of the high contrast the eyes make which would have sucked to photograph from pencils.
I'm not gonna lie; not my best work. When I get bored I might revisit that one. Especially since it'd probably delight my brother if I did.
This is what happens when I ask my wife what I should sketch.
"Cute centaur!" was her almost immediate answer.
A quick and vastly inaccurate depiction of my World of Warcraft character. S'what happens when you're sketching during a raid.
...or maybe I'm already running out of ideas?
I don't know if he wants to protect it or make an omelet.
Kinda last minute on this. Had a guest over which made it hard to carve out a few minutes to draw, but her it is: some dude's face.
If you were to go to almost any web comic and press the 'first' button, you would notice a dramatic change in art quality from what you had in front of you when you logged into the page and what you see before you now. It's said that to become an expert in anything you should put in roughly 10 000 hours and few things demonstrate this as dramatically as a web comic that's been going for a few years. Goats.com is a particularly good example of that. If you dig into the archive you'll find this. Practice doesn't necessarily make perfect but it sure helps along the way.
So it's no surprise that I've been toying with the idea of doing a web comic of my own for a few years now. Unfortunately, a web comic is a gargantuan investment of time and effort. That doesn't mean I don't want to get the regular practice in.
Hence, I figured I might as well force myself to draw a little each day and if I'm going to be going through the effort then there's nothing to lose with sharing my efforts. This is something I've been planning on doing from the get-go and it's my pleasure to introduce to you my first feature: Sketch-a-day
Essentially, each day, I'll be posting a sketch I've made. I'll try to put between ten minutes to half an hour on each sketch so they're worth your time but don't become too heavy a burden. I'll be pushing notifications for when the sketch is up on both Facebook and Twitter (I encourage you to follow my Twitter feed @jfdubeau).
