Just a quick little warm up sketch when I woke up this morning. I looked outside and saw how beautiful it was here in San Diego. I truly do cherish my home. For my sketch, I wanted to originally draw one of my favorite beach spots: Moonligt Beach that's in my hometown of Encinitas, but I decided to go for the Oceanside Pier where it's one of my favorite spots to bike ride. You can't exactly bike ON the actual pier, but there's a boardwalk that's perfect for bike riding. For the sketch, I didn't use a ruler (as you can probably tell) and I tried to go as fast as possible. I wanted to let loose and go with it, just to see in the end how well I was able to capture the Oceanside Pier and warm up my sketching skills. Any way, here's the original sketch from this morning:

I then decided to try out my Photo App on my iPhone and came up with liking both these settings:












For my next project, I plan on painting a picture of moonlight beach using oils. I love the ocean, and I especially just love the atmosphere of the beach. It will be a fantastically fun project!

Got motivated by a friend of mine to create more artwork. It's been extremely hard for me this past year to get down and get creative. It's as if I've lost every ounce of creativity due to either stress, changes, health, who knows. I would think having a significant other who's an artist would allow me to open up more creatively, but it seems to do the exact opposite for me. Instead of being able to spit out new artwork of my own, my artwork starts to turn into something HE would make. Doesn't really sit well with me... I need to have something come from my OWN thoughts/images I have in my head.

So here's the start to a couple things I played around with on paper, then uploaded on my iPhone none-the-less (*rolls eyes* yeah, well I paid for some awesome art apps that I need to finally put into good use!) and used a program called Cartoon Art to color in, and another photography app called Photo Studio to add some cool effects. Technology is amazing now a days, and since I don't have the money to buy amazing, and yet expensive art programs for my computer, I figure this is the closest thing I have. Please bare with me, I'm a bit rusty not having drawn in a long, long while.

First one is a random plain ocean wave coming up towards an island in the sun. I was trying to make it look somewhat like a graphic design, just plain and simple. It didn't turn out at all the way I wanted it, but I thought I could possibly see this in a children's book or something.


Next one was a little tough for me, and I'm not pleased at all with the likeness, but I figured I'd just play around with it. It's supposed to be a caricature of the talented singer/songwriter that I have loved since middle school: Fiona Apple.