Wide Angle Lenz [beta]

So I attempted to do my half hour of sketching last week on a notebook while my friend turned GTA4 on for the first time. Needless to say I was pretty distracted, and that shows in my sketch. I was also refrencing images online through my iPhone, so it was a challenge all around to get some quality sketching in. That said, I still wanted to post what I did. I was looking at Samurai Jack, a creation of the brilliant Genndy Tartakovsky, because I really like his style and have been trying to recreate it for a while now. I don’t think what I did this time around is anything near my best work, but I was still hoping to get some feedback. What do you guys think?

(sorry it isn’t horizontal, I don’t have Photoshop and Preview won’t save it the way I want it to…)

I am going to use this blog for is to get some feedback on various projects I am working on. One of which will be the half-hour sketch project. Each week I will spend at least a half-hour with a sketchbook and put what I come up with online. Please feel free to leave some feedback, I am hoping that someone is willing to give me some tips that will help me hone in on what my style is. I love drawing and art but have never given it the proper attention to help cultivate it personally, this gives me a set time to do it every week.

As something to look forward to, I will be illustrating a children’s story that the author and I hope to publish in the future. There is a potential that the progress of the story’s development will be documented here on Wide Angle Lenz, and that the book will be available via a downloadable PDF.

For my first half-hour sketch session I went back to some of the basics I learned in my Architecture Drawing 1001 class. Below are contour drawings I did referencing the Pixar Animations book To Infinity and Beyond! (which is an awesome coffee table book, if you’re looking). After the contours I wanted to see how much of Buzz Lightyear I could sketch in the remaining 15 minutes. Please feel free to leave some feedback. Thanks everyone!

(My scanner couldn’t handle the size of my sketch pad, so I had to get images of my work via my iPhone)

Here are the contour drawings:

Alien

Mike

Dory

Buzz

Fifteen-minute sketch of Buzz