Continue to learn

Just a quick post today, I have a little time off next couple of days...not sure how they will be used. I could use a couple of months instead of days lol. Today's pics are of a large painting I did about a year and a half ago of Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs. It was right after he announced his retirement, I tried but I think I bit off more than I can chew. It was a very ambitious attempt which is typical of myself. A lot of times I try to do stuff that is beyond what my artistic ability can accomplish. Today I'm posting the finished result and the first step to reuse the canvas for another project. The third and fourth pics are of My Little Pony Minty Christmas someone at work asked if I would draw it the dark blue circle is done by hand with Fabre castle Pitt artist pen, sketch marker, and watercolor. The one in the light blue circle the drawing of the pony was transferred to iPad and done with Procreate. Doing this helped me learn how to better use Procreate I now know how to cut and paste, also colorfill (coloring in a shape with a solid color.

   Hopefully I will do some 4th of July themed stuff and post soon.

SUMMER DAYS, FATHERS DAY BUSY DAYS

Summer has begun and it is way hot which also means it's hot at work as well. It's the worst to sweat and work long hours, 12hr days st work have become the norm. Leaving very few hours to do anything which becomes frustrating. Which led me to draw a zombie. Zombies are not really my thing ill watch a show or movie but I'm not really into zombies but that's what I felt like. I felt as though I had become a zombie just going to work and nothing more.
  Today is Fathers Day so Happy Fathers Day everyone. Which also means I wanted to draw something for my dad (he always enjoys my artwork). My sister gave him a Star Wars themed card so I stuck with that theme.

This was done on iPad with Procreate and Apple Pencil 

iPad as well

This is watercolor

At some point I will post more of my older art work some of it needs to be posted before I paint over it, it's what you call a failed work which for me is double painful because of the time spent making something that your just not very satisfied with 

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Shoutouts

I wanted give out some shout outs to everyone who has given me encouragement since I started making art. First off I have to give a shout out to my wife, she has always given me love and support in my quest to make art. Shes always fast to compliment my work and give suggestions. In the living room there are 3 paintings that hang on the walls all comic related. These aren't small paintings they are rather large. I'm not sure most wives would be cool with their husband hanging these huge comic book paintings in the main living room.
   My two sons also are always a great help they always give feedback to help improve my artwork. They help with ideas and always have time to look at whatever I'm working on.
   Both my parents as you would imagine are very supportive I usually share my work with them. As you would imagine all my family members give me encouragement including my sister and my nefew. All of this support and encouragement just helps fuel my desire to make art.

    I used to have a Instagrahm account so to anyone who gave me a like or left a comment thank you. Thank you to all those artist on instagrahm who keep turning out great work just know that seeing your artwork was a inspiration. I'm no longer on instagrahm instead I have created this Blog which brings me to the last shout out.

   This last shout out goes to someone I never met or even spoken to in person. Don Moore has a Comic book Podcast that I found on iTunes called Two Dimension Comic Book Podcast (a comic book podcast with no direction). I have communicated with Don via email and regular mail so we have never met... kinda crazy right but I guess that's the times we live in. Don reaffirmed what I all ready felt myself. What he really should get credit for is this Blog it was his idea and he's the one who told me how to get started. The guys at Two Dimension comic book podcast are coming up on their 200th podcast, they are currently on #197. It consists of 4 friends who talk about comic books of all kinds new, old, funny, superheroes, supernatural. In celebration of their up coming 200th podcast I drew their logo in different forms and mash ups ( mash ups are two different characters drawn as one, like Homer Simpson as the Hulk or Mickey Mouse as Speedy Gonzales). Below you will see A video Preview of that artwork it was made on my iPad Pro on iMovie which was super easy to use.