Drawing Challenge Day 91

Little girl. 

Drawing Challenge Day 90

The back of a girls head. 

Drawing Challenge Day 89

A spoonbill.

Drawing Challenge Day 88

Quick Esmerelda. 

Drawing Challenge Day 87

I pretty much just doodled today. 

Drawing Challenge Day 86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgDNCmGr-Q4

Drawing Challenge Day 85

Practice sketching children :) I usually try to do some sort of finished drawing rather than practice sketches for this challenge- but there was a mess of kids at a family gathering today who wouldn't hold still long enough for anything but sketches. So this is what I've got.

I haven't practiced drawing children very much, but it seems to be all about the cheeks and the forehead, so far as heads/faces go.

Drawing Challenge Day 84

I scratched this out during a rest/refuel/wakeup stop on my drive back down to Oregon. This was a kid in the gas station who was buying a slurpy while I was inside the store. Him and his friends seemed to be on an adventure of their own. And don't mind that smudge- I was multi-tasking at 11:50pm drawing and eating chocolate at the same time...

Drawing Challenge Day 83

Drawing Challenge Day 82

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k009TIxQc8

Drawing Challenge Day 81

You get the general idea. 

"A Heffalump Went A-Whumping" Poem

Once upon a time a small heffalump went out to go a-whumping.

But all too soon his thinker got too uppity in its thumping

And before he knew what how, his puddlers got galumphing

To and fro, and to and fro in hasty bops a-bumping

Further from the wiggers he found it was much nicer lumping

And practically lumbobbed he settled to the crumping

At length he bapped and booed while steadily was plumping

And too late heffalump came-to once bulged too wide for whumping.

By Me.

Drawing Challenge Day 80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_HlPboLRL8

Drawing Challenge Day 79

Her face is slightly distorted because I sketched it with the page leaning away from me on a flat surface- I do that frustratingly often. (Don't mind that dude on the left)

Drawing Challenge Day 78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjpyi4FWmFI

Drawing Challenge Day 77

I become less articulate when tired. And this carries over into my art as well...... Long day of blacksmithing and driving meant this day was quick and abstract. 

Drawing Challenge Day 76

Speed painting of Arthur (A friend whose face was convenient) in gouache from life. I finally got a couple travel brushes to keep in my kit, and used one of them for this. Wonderful, perfect. Excellent brush. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40d6wTnIXqA

Drawing Challenge Day 75- Plus Custom Blacksmithing Bracket project

I'm behind on posting. But not on my drawings....

Long days blacksmithing at the fair doesn't leave much time for putting together blog posts XP 

So on day 75 I had a couple come into the booth at the fair wondering about ordering some custom decorative bracket things for the inside of a window frame somewhere in their house. 

They ended up giving me some basic guidelines and letting me have artist license on the specific design! :D 

This is what I eventually settled on-

 (This is officially my drawing for the drawing challenge, btw)

A couple other ideas I played with up there are the right- The basic requirements are just that outline- with the right angle on the bracket, and the curve on the outside. 

Next to get everything measured and sketched out, and starting figuring out what lengths of what stock size I needed to start with. 

I used the band saw to split the stock three ways before shaping and drawing the pieces out. After that I forged the swirls with the fish-tail scrolls, and got them all marked and ready to make a tenon to join the leaf thing to the scroll.

 

We have a guillotine tool on the treadle hammer to cut those square shoulders and make a clean tenon. Once I got it most of the way shaped, I finished and rounded it to 5/16 with a file. 

All the pieces fitted and forged- and ready for assembly. 

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Ready to heat and peene over.

Got it :) A pretty crisp joint for my first time. 

Now to figure out where the rivets go to attach the scrolls to the bracket piece. There's was some fudging on this part- especially the second bracket- because I free-handed the scrolls and they weren't perfectly the same. Nor was the leaf pointing out from the center of the scroll at a perfect right angle on both brackets. So- measure, eyeball, mark, drill, rivet.

Also, I only had super short rivets. So I had to countersink the back sit of the bracket pretty deeply, then reach inside with a divet tool thing (like a dull punch) to peene them out inside XD 

But it turned out alright :) 

It's just a good thing they were decorative, not structural.

The couple who ordered these were super nice, and also enthusiastic and supportive. The guy filmed me working and put it on YouTube as well. There's a picture of the brackets installed at the end :D 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExFVKT4atAY

Drawing Challenge Day 74

"Ulysses" Josh Garrels Song Cover

Extremely rough, doesn't do the song justice and all that. 

Drawing Challenge Day 73

Gouache art card. 

Drawing Challenge Day 72

Drawing Challenge Day 71

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRviuL6vMY

Drawing Challenge Day 70

Sketch.

(Music)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8slArpj_XU&list=PLEcMjYuQFdTzrdaBMl5_T4HrkiNgoXJhK&index=46

Drawing Challenge Day 69

Today was long and stressful. The little truck wouldn't start this morning when I tried to go to the fair. Many plans, ideas, and arrangments later, I ended up having a pretty productive day at the fair from about 1:30 onward. So this little dude ^ is named Stress Man. Raise up a cup of tea and drink to a better tomorrow. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIwfruNJNUU

Drawing Challenge Day 68

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I got behind posting a day. I did this one about one minute XP I spent all day yesterday preparing and then driving up to Washington State Fair in Puyallup, where I'm blacksmithing most of the month. 

I'm destroyed by a puzzle I can't unveil or see

The questions are all running from side to side in me

And second comes the query of how it's best to speak

To the visions that appearing seem to make me weak.

Drawing Challenge Day 67

Drawing Challenge Day 66

We are finally home from California, and Oregon's gone and lit itself on fire in our absence. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ho91eli_Y

Drawing Challenge Day 65-- Plus "Dark on Me" by Starset Cover with Tatiana

Quick sketch of Tatiana. And we also recorded "Dark on me" by Starset real quick. :) 

Drawing Challenge Day 64

Dim picture under these lights. But here's some abstract art for y'all XD 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDflVhOpS4E

Drawing Challenge Day 63--- Plus Wedding Reception

Some flowers. I did most of the bouquets for the centerpieces at the reception today, so I have flowers on the mind.

Pretty good flowers. We made a bunch like this- with a vase set in a globe with lights in it :) Looked super cool.

Tatiana has a big bin of Copic markers, and she let me shovel through and scribble with all of them :D 

It was a lovely wedding reception. Ugly club place turned into that ^

Just take a second to look at the flowers, and the bows on the chairs, and the specially folded napkins, tulle and lights, etc. XP We did that. I'm tired now. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYuqnUs9gP8

Some good clawhammer banjo arbitrarily selected to accompany this post. 

Drawing Challenge Day 62--- Plus flying to California

I drew this on the airplane today on our way down to California for a friends wedding reception :)

Autumn and I also had a super good time singing at the gate before we boarded :) A nice young man even came up and gave us a $5 bill and thanked us for the music XD Autumns first earnings as a musician. 

We all had a suuuuper good flight. 

Me and my sisters are helping run the dancing at the reception tomorrow- and I got to help put together the playlist for the free dancing songs too :D All my favorite love songs for a wedding reception. This is the list we ended up with- partially from a few request from the bride and groom, and mostly of my own initiative. 

A happy man- Thomas Rhett

A thousand years- Christina Perri

When God made you- NewSong

Heavens Knife- Josh garrels

Cinderella- Steven Curtis Chapman

Stealing Cinderella- Chuck Wicks* (Father-Daughter dance)

Love Never fails- Brandon heath*** (Mother Son dance)

When I say I do- Matthew West*

God gave me you- Blake Shelton

God bless the broken road- Rascal Flatts

Shut up and dance

Can't Help falling in love with you 

LOVE- Nat King Cole

Aint no Mountain High Enough- Marvin Gaye

Everything I do, I do it for you- Bryan Adams

All of me- John Legend

Marry you- Bruno Mars

Smile- Uncle Kracker****

The Way you Smile- Newsong***

1234- Plain White T's

I'm in Love- Rybak

Rhythm of Love- Plain White Ts

This I Promise You- NSYNC

Any way the wind blows- Home Free

Heart Skips a beat- Lenka

When can I see you again- Owl City***

Coming After you- Owl City

Hey Soul Sister- Train

Speed of Love- Owl City

You and I- INgrid Michaelson

Storybook Story- 

All about us- Owl City

Good time- Owl City, Carly Jepson

Love Story- Taylor Swift

Like Nothing I've ever knows- From Spirit

A Whole New World

At last I see the light- Tangled

Romantic ride- How to train your dragon

La Da Dee- Cody Simpson

Counting Stars- One Republic

On Top of World- Imagine Dragons

I Will Wait for you- Mumford and Sons

Riptide- Vance Joy

Death of a Bachelor- Panic! Disco dude

Sway- Michael Buble

I Won't give up- Jason Mraz

Lucky- Jason Mraz

You'll be in my heart- Phil Collins

Marry You- Bruno Mars

You're the Only one- NF

Turn the music up- NF

Count on Me-Bruno Mars

Thinking out loud- Ed Sheeran

Star of the County Down- The High Kings

Rocky Road to Dublin- High Kings

I See Fire- Ed Sheeran

Red is the Rose- High Kings

Star of the County Down- High Kings

A Bird Without Wings- Damien someone or Celtic Thunder

Black is the Color- Celtic Thunder

Can you feel the love tonight- Lion King

Kiss the Girl- The Little Mermaid

What do you think- did I miss anything important?