Speed Painting practice

Wheee

I'm not dead. I still draw and sketch, but nothing that's any good has come out of it lately. I hope this artistic-brain-fog will end soon. >-<

Very Tired

I had drawing projects that I wanted to complete recently, but this last week I have had no energy. It's very hard for me to get out of bed or even go outside of my home. Today I figured out what the problem might be- I had recently stopped drinking Sweet Tea/Iced Tea. Not for good, but I wanted to take a break and see how long I could go without sweet tea. I really wanted to stop feeling the need to drink tea everyday and decrease my sugar consumption which is pretty high, in my opinion.

The problem is that not only do I lose the energy from sugar but, more importantly, I lose the caffeine boost. You would not think black tea had enough caffeine to even matter. However, I brewed some tea today (unsweet) and after consuming most of it, I felt a lot better and instantly regained my energy. I'm still trying to cut back on sugar, so I will have to suffer through unsweet for awhile. It's either drink unsweet tea or feel tired all the time and never get around to completing any of my artwork. And I'm pretty slow with my drawing even with the tea, so meh.

Male studies and Gesture studies

These gesture studies are 1 to 5 minutes each

Drawing in progress

I felt like drawing one of my characters from my story, Potential. This is Ristretto and she is riding one of the giant rabbits that are known to exist in the demon's world. They're stubborn and hate to follow commands, but that didn't deter her. ^-^

New drawing

Uploaded a new drawing to my deviantart account-

Raptor in Autumn

I like trying to use colors to depict light in my drawings. When you add in lights and shadows, the effects you get with colors is endless.

Character headshot - Mocha

A sketch of one of my characters, Mocha. His design was pretty simple (he only wore shorts basically) but I'm going to put a cowboy-ish hat and a long coat on him. It seems to go with his laid back personality. ^-^

Wow headshots

A couple of headshots of characters from the World of Warcraft game. I think I am getting better at coloring but I'll keep working on it anyway. You can always get better when it comes to drawing. :)

These were both sketched then inked with a pen, then colored with Prismacolor color pencils and watercolors.

New drawings and new prints

Uploaded two new drawings for my deviantart page-

Mermaid and Fish

and

Patriotic Raptor

They are available as prints on Deviantart and also as framed prints on my Imagekind website- http://jjsketch.imagekind.com

More artwork coming soon.

Current drawing projects

My current drawing projects. Two of them are almost done.

Lanscape sketch

This is just the line work for the sketches I just uploaded to my Deviantart page at http://jjohnson.deviantart.com/art/Character-Sheet-Toyota-113550860