Real Drawings

Most of my drawings are really amazing, because they get better when I walk away and then come back later. Except the drawing of Jordann...I was drawing her live, and without telling her, so she soon moved and I had to just draw what I remembered. Now she looks like she's older and something else is just weird.

My sister! Based on one of my favorite pictures from her childhood.

Commissioned drawing: elf. Requested by: Savannah.

This is SUPER cool! I made a sphere out of dirt! It's called Dorodango, a Japanese art of polishing dirt, essentially. This was a trial run to see if I could pull it off. Now that I know how to do it, I'll use better sands/dirts so it can actually be polished. Did it over the summer.

Sketchin' S'more--That Sounds Good Right Now

12-15/17-08

I did this page in between performances (and during some, I'll be honest) at Lizzie's Ice Skating show of people in the crowd, sitting unsuspecting that they would forever be immortalized in the pages of my sketchbook.

This is some doodling I did on the airplane going to Orlando 12-20-08

Sketchin' Along

Sketches from Art History, Biology, and the Alexis Rockman lecture.

I did most of this from sitting in the hall at 7 AM waiting for my counsellor to get there at 8 so I could be the first to sign up for 2D Design.

Ideas, mostly, and some sketches while waiting to get in Bio (I was early to the class, as usual, and there was a class in the room, so I sat in the hall and tried to surreptitiously sketch people.)

Mini Selfs

This is a quick comparison of some mini-self-portraits from my sketchbook. The one above is drawn from my Student ID card (on the plane to Florida 12-27-08). One of the flight attendants said, "Wow, that's beautiful!" I threw the quote in, 'cause I like remembering compliments.

This one is from 11-9-08 and, if I remember correctly, I did it off the computer.

Sketch Book

11-2-08

The start of my favorite part of my sketchbook--pretty much everything after this point (unfortunately, I'm just about half-way through the thing) is really good and I actually like to look at them often.

11-4-08

I like this one because when I got bored of all those gestures, I started abstracting them--my first true effort to expand that part of my skill-set

11-4-08

11-6-08
Another set of abstraction exercises, put to work with logo-style trees and simplifying pictures of weather systems, a red-rock canyon scene and a picture of a sandstorm.

Sketch Book "Dump," As The BYU Bloggers Call It

Ahh! What is that hideous thing? Why, that's my blind-contour self-portrait I had to do for Drawing I. I do hope this actually gets my hand-eye coordination better, rather than just make me feel stupid.

Here's an older sketch book page from about two weeks ago. I drew this stuff on my way down to Sandy for the Labor Day Weekend. I was trying to figure out the whole web 2.0 designs that day and also just trying to come with ideas for quick logos. I did the self-portrait (basically my first ever) looking in the side-view mirror, because I rode in shotgun. Even though the dark shadow conceals a lot of my face/important features like my eyes, I think it has a stunning resemblance. I'm amazing.

Sketch Book Stuff

Today is the first day of college. I don't have a class until 1:00, so what could I possibly do that's better than updating my blog?

Here's a nice out-of-the-ordinary art piece for me. I did this at the beginning of last year in AP Art after I saw the Sterling Scholar kid do something like it, so naturally I copied his ideas in my own sketchbook, because that's what I like to do.

I drew this charcoal spider at my Grandma and Grandpa Brown's house during the October General Conference last year.

This is a more recent sketch from this particular sketchbook. I did these in Koosharem after I found a load of animal books on a bookshelf, this last May. I then inked out the elk on 6-15-08.

I also did these on my Koosharem trip in May, but I only wanted to show the elephant because I hated the antelope when I was drawing it, so I stopped, and I still hate it now.

When I went to San Diego, I saw lots of booths for caricature drawing, so I decided I'd do my sister as we traveled back home on June 15th. This was my very first caricature, so sorry Hill, and sorry to all those I just gave eye spasms to.