A Pen and Wash Dog Portrait

Hello. I just thought I would post this to see how it looks on the computer. It is a pen and wash portrait of a dog. That is to say a watercolor and ink portrait.
The dog's owner told me it is a Catahoula Leopard Dog.
I did this for a fund raiser for Blind Ambition, a Dragon Boat paddling club here in Portland. There name is Blind Ambition because they are principally a group that are visually impaired and blind. They have been doing this for a few years and have actually been competitive.

Friday, November 19th More pencil sketches.

Here are a couple of sketches from this week. Not so good, but I thought I would share anyway. I am one of those who like doodle even if I haven't been doing as well.

This is a pencil sketch colorized with Gimp, a free program that is similar too Photoshop. I added some text, also.

I added the patches on the cheeks, thinking of an old Japanese cartoon my kids used to watch on TV.

This was a pencil sketch enhanced with Photoshop. I'm not sure where I got the reference, but to be sure it is just a sketch for practice only.

November the first.

Well I thought I would start the new month with a new cartoon. I'm actually doing a portrait of this dog, but I thought it would be fun to do a caricature of him first.
BTW, I am guessing they call it caricatures when you draw animals this way. Dunno.

A Self Portrait for Halloween

This is more of a sketch than a serious self portrait. I didn't have a mask, so I had to make one up. 

Happy Halloween, Y'all!

                                      

Frankenstein's Monkey

This was just a quick sketch with a Uniball gel pen. I colored it with my computer. Hopefully you get the idea of it, anyway.
I really like Corel Painter Essentials 3's Creepy Font. I also like the digital watercolor feature.

              

This is a pencil sketch of my son, Chumley. Just for Halloween. 

        

From the sketchbook I had Last October around Halloween

Here are a couple of sketches from one of my sketchbooks from this time last year. It's funny, I don't write much in my sketchbooks, but the stuff I draw jogs my memory enough that I can remember what was going on then. In a way, this blog is a bit like a journal, too.
Last year around Halloween we were just getting over the worst flu I ever. I say "we" because My wife Aunt Bee, my son Chumley and I all had it together. I remember how awful I felt. How cranky Aunt Bee and Chumley were.
I also remember this obsession I had with masks. I had to go to the doctors office and asked if they could provide a mask so I would not get anyone else sick. Surprisingly they told me there were none available.

Another cat cartoon done in pencil with some computer additions.

My drawing has been uninspired as of late. But our little cat is always interesting. Lately she's been staying up all night looking for bugs.
She really is a sweet cat, but she does get a little obsessed when it comes to catching bugs. :)

A portrait on Utrecht's Oatmeal paper and a caricature.

Well, not too much has been going on here. I did find a very nice sketchbook by Utrecht. It is a hardcover book with 80 pages of recycled oatmeal paper. Link, here.

I tried my new sketchbook out with a portrait sketch. I used a couple of different graphite pencils and a white charcoal pencil for highlights.
Also, I did a caricature of the same person, a friend of my wife's daughter on white paper, scanned and colored with my computer. Both drawings are posted below. :)
That's it for now. To quote Arnold, "I'll be back!"

A cartoon from a dream.

I know a few posts ago I wrote about dreaming, but really I don't make too much of my dreams.I did have this dream, though. It was the other night and I was able to remember and get it down. This dream only lasted a few seconds.

Pencil sketches, added effects with the computer.

It's been a while since I posted here, so I thought I would share some sketches from this week. These are all pencil sketches that I tied together using my computer. Just to see what they would look like. The print sizes are different because the picture sizes are different.
I guess I was just thinking about the new babies in Aunt Bee and my families. :)