X-Tina...

Getting better at capturing likeness. 9 hours in Photoshop with photo ref. And yes, I forged her signature. :)

the Lady Killer...

I watched a couple of videos today that were very inspiring. The first one was on Schoolism.com and it was a video interview with Armand Baltazar (which is an awesome name by the way!): http://www.schoolism.com/interview.php?id=80 The other video was also on Schoolism.com and it was a sample video of a caricature class with Jason Seiler who is fricken amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te4YXyqxY70&feature=plcp Both of which inspired me to bust out this piece of one of my most favorite musicians on the planet.

Side note: A good friend of mine pointed out how a lot of my portraits have been looking almost like caricatures so I decided I wanted to push this one a little more and give it more character. I had a blast with it!

Also to keep things interesting I made a step-by-step .Gif of my process.

More Robots...

I wanted to show off some of my process on the robot that I posted previously, since I am sure some people might find this interesting ;) The second pic was some experimenting I was doing with different color combinations. A fun little test.

Ryan Reynolds

This was a fun one. I can't express to you how random I choose who I end up drawing for these exercises. I feel really good about this one. Facial proportions are a little off but I feel like I actually captured a recognizable likeness here.

Rowbought

Finally took some time to sit down and do some art. This is the first piece I have done from beginning to end in a long time. Felt good to do something not work related and just for fun. I used to draw robots a lot back in the day. They are definitely challenging to me but I have dedicated myself to pushing my work out of the "comfort zone".

She went Hathaway!!!

Get it?? Hathaway like Thataway??? Right? Meh, whatever! Here's my study for the month. I have been super inspired lately to do more art thanks to a cool video I watched by Bobby Chiu on his Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKy8wNYGo6E I'll admit he lays it on a little thick sometimes but he's really good about peaking interest and conveying ideas in his videos.

If you come across this and have some feedback or suggestions or even wise words to help me get better at this process please, by all means, comment down below. I would love to get better at capturing likeness, but I don't even know where I should start. Your feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated!

Roadside baby!

 

Say hello to my new daughter Allie Christina Dockendorf, born 8:24 pm at 6 lbs 13 ozs, in the front seat of my wife's Toyota Corolla! My wife went into labor and we left for the hospital but we didn't make it haha! Here's one of the paramedics who helped us in the ambulance following the birth holding the baby. These guys were great and my wife and the baby are doing great as well. I thought stuff like this only happened in the movies but apparently it can happen in real life too. Thus the adventure that is my life continues!