Practice Sketch: Josh

Super rough (keyword!) sketch of another one of my

awesome co-workers (and easily the funniest guy I know), Josh!  

Even though I'm still not finished with the big side project I've been working on, I had a little "incident" at work that I feel compelled to illustrate as a comic.  Josh will make an appearance in it, so I started doodling some practice sketches of him.  Despite the look of the sketch, I don't want this comic to be very detailed/realistic, so I'll need to reduce down his features into more generic, cartoony forms than what you see here.  I'm not sure what sort of style I'll be working with just yet though--need to do some more sketches first.

Odd little note:  Even when drawing them as cartoons, I tend to draw real people in different style than if I were to just make someone up.  I figure it's because I try really hard to capture some defining physical characteristics of that person so that even the cartoon versions bare some resemblance to their real-world counterparts (like good caricatures).  Unless I'm going for a very specific visual style, I don't usually draw real people with features so generic they can represent pretty much anyone. 

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!

About a month ago, my friend, Rebecca, got her boyfriend, Andy, a beer home-brewing kit for his birthday.  As a part of his surprise gift, she asked me to design a fun little label to go with it.  We brain stormed a bunch of ideas but threw most of them out when she covertly found out that if had he his own beer brand, he'd name it "Shempster."

Yes, as in Shemp Howard of The Three Stooges fame, LOL

Bottle cap sticker--The "A.W." stands for Andy's initials :P

 

All the photos were provided by Rebecca!

Just something I photoshopped using a stock image.

It was fun getting to design something so goofy.  Now we just need some for all the other Stooges.  Hope you had a fantastic birthday, Andy!

Magic Sparkley Cheeseburger

I haven't posted anything new here in about a month, and I feel like that's way too long.  The only thing is, I don't really have anything to post just yet.  See, many of you guys know that I've been working on a side project for quite some time (much longer than I had any intention of letting it drag on for...my apologies to the appropriate party...).  Since I'm determined to have this project completed in its entirety by the end of July, I have been forgoing most other attempts at artsy-ness, including the occasional, fun doodle.  But you know what they say...

...All work and no play makes [Saemi] a dull [girl].

Or, if you'd prefer the Simpsons take...

Saemi:  ...All work and no play make [Saemi] something something...
Marge:  Go crazy?
Saemi:  Don't mind if I do!  *crazy mouth noises*

Truth be told, it's just a (very) rough sketch that I took from one of the panels I was drawing for the project.  I did tweak it to look different than than the actual drawing though, since the project is yet unfinished, unpublished, and it's not my intellectual property (I'm just the brawns to someone else's brains).  Basically, I just changed some of the facial features and added the Cheeseburger of Sparkliness.

 (Click for larger view)

I also misspelled the word, "Sparkly" apparently.  Ah crap.  I knew that, I swear!  Well, I'll just argue that that's how it's spelled in the mystical world of glittery foodstuffs. 

Hope you were as amused as you were befuddled by this nonsense!  I'm off to fetch a glass of iridescent juice.