After watching Animation Mentor’s Animals and Creatures webinar, this is based on Ijah’s ogre.

This was fun. I just got a projector and I had it hooked up to my computer, since I didn’t have anything else that could take advantage of its resolution (yet). So I drew this projected on a 100-inch image projected on a sheet.

Yesterday I made a train trip out to San Bernardino, and struggled as ever to think of something to draw. I imagine it will be easier in any other setting but the ordinary, but it’s equally hard anywhere—well, anywhere else ordinary anyhow.

Here’s a color study for a leafy tunnel gate.

The kiddy area at Glendale Galleria

Didn’t have any ideas this morning, so I drew a tree, trying to make it look like a cyprus in Monterey.

Busy busy day. I drew a little at the laundromat:

To start the day, here’s a lady I passed in the park on my way to work, playing recorder on a bench.

left (profile): on the train; right (3/4) at lunch

Today’s challenge: a French town square.

I was thinking of what to draw when the town square came to mind, because I was speaking what little French I know to myself as a bit of a game. I dismissed it right away, then failing to come up with anything else I wanted to try, revisited it. I thought, I’ll only draw a bunch of box buildings and some cafe tables. It’ll be boring and useless. Well, I thought again, I have a phone that can lookup pictures of anything. So I’m on the train with some lovely reference photos. Let’s see what comes of it.

Here’s the sketch from the train.

Here’s the photo I used as reference.

Final image at the top of the post. I took a picture after color and before laying some detailed lines down, but I accidentally deleted it while clearing out other bad snaps.

Today was a wonderful birthday, though I count yesterday as part, since I haven’t been home yet. I spent my day in Santa Monica and Venice.