Daily warm-up for December 4th. Time to wake up!

 

Awaken

Today’s daily warm-up is slightly experimental as I play subtly with the use of color. Little dashes of unexpected color spiced things up for me with this one.

Shoulder is acting up something fierce, but I will try not to let it slow me down too much. 

Yesterday I edited the latest episode of the Ninja Mountain Podcast. We discussed how to “quickify” one’s illustration work at the request of Brian Bowes, artist and listener. It proved to be a fun topic and went over some broad territory.

Check it out at www.ninjamountain.blogspot.com

The weekend is almost here! I’ll be working most of it to try to keep on target with deadlines, but I don’t mind. I’m pretty excited to get some work done, if my back will let me.

Have a great weekend!

December 3rd Daily Warm-up. Blossoms

 

Blossoms

Well, here’s today’s daily warm-up.

Feeling a little bit better today and am slowly climbing back into the saddle. I spent most of the morning with an ice pack on my shoulder and that seemed to keep things on an even keel while I belted this out. 

I am going to get some work done today.

Tomorrow I go back to the doctor for some further bone cracking. That should be great fun. I may be a bit late with the warm-up tomorrow, but I should be well enough to get things going.

Onwards and upwards!

Daily Warm-up for December 2nd.

Today’s warm-up seemed to scream “Barbarian Bug Killer”.

I went to the chiropractor today and he made sweet, sweet music with my spine. I had no idea my neck could produce those sounds. I kept waiting for my legs to go numb, but I actually am more mobile now which seems impossible considering what was done to me.

We recorded this week’s episode of the Ninja Mountain Podcast where a listener posed the topic of how to speed up the work of a practicing illustrator. Some interesting thoughts came forward and  some of them were even on-topic.

That show should come out Friday as normal once Patrick and I can figure out who will have the honor of editing. *cough*PATRICK! *cough*. Ahem.

Now I find myself wishing to save up for a larger home printer so I can experiment with printing out digital underpainting in order to finish off with traditional media. I’ve seen some fine examples of the animal and would not mind doing something similar. 

My experiments with doing my first passes of painting with watercolor seem to be going well. I am looking forward to testing it out on some half-page assignments and a cover.

Back to work!

Daily Warm-up for December 1st.

Here is today’s daily warm-up. The Bog Man.

Today my shoulder and neck is in a bit of pain which is making it very hard to get work done. It’s all stemming from a terrific knot of muscle between my shoulder blades. Joy of joys.

Tomorrow I see the chiropractor which is actually a first for me, though my wife raves about it.

In the meantime, I will have to push on through on my work as best I can. Deadlines loom regardless of my predicament.

Still, it ain’t digging ditches so I should be okay.

Onwards!

Cyber Monday Daily Warm-up!

I am of two minds on the topic ...

Still recovering from Thanksgiving Bloat along with a bad back that runs along the upper right shoulder ( my drawing hand, naturally) that is slowing me down a tad.

Hope you like today’s sketch regardless. Back to work.

November 27th Daily warm-up!

Allow me to blow out your candles...

Well! Today is my birthday and I took that as inspiration for today’s warm-up session.

The latest episode of the Ninja Mountain Podcast is up on the show blog. 

Patrick Wilshire was a terrific guest and the episode features discussion about his popular yearly event along with insight into the collector’s market. I hope you will get a chance to enjoy the show.

Back to the daily drama associated with making art for a living,

‘Til next time!

 

Happy Turkey Day!

The most important item to have on your person on Turkey Day is a pair of these.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

I’ll be back tomorrow with a new daily warm-up provided I am still capable of movement and I’ve managed to sleep off the tryptophan high.

Ninja Mountain interviewed Patrick Wilshire yesterday evening and I am now wrapping up the editing. It should be a fun episode as we talk about Illuxcon and the topic of art collecting.

I believe it will post tomorrow for your listening pleasure at www.ninjamountain.blogspot.com.

See you tomorrow!

 

November 25th Daily Warm-up! Cyber Gal…

Today’s sketch warm-up is here. I had some fun with the somewhat lyrical shape of this one. It has a fun graphic appeal that I enjoyed noodling with. About 45 minutes of digital painting time.

Today we at Ninja Mountain are speaking with Patrick Wilshire who is the mastermind behind Illuxcon and The Illustration Exchange. Topics of discussion will be his exciting fantasy art symposium along with his views on art collecting. I can’t wait!

I’ve already started gathering listener questions for Patrick and the recording session should be good fun.

Now I must be off to work. 

Thanks for reading and I hope you will enjoy the episode when it comes out after Thanksgiving.

 

November 24th Daily Warm-up.

Today’s warm-up  is finished. On to the hard stuff.

 

November 23rd Daily Warm-up!

Today’s daily warm-up is here! Good fun.

Hey, check out part 2 of the Illuxcon Special over at www.ninjamountain.blogspot.com

I got to interview many more artists at the event and I think you’ll enjoy them.

I’ve finally picked up some of the skills necessary to edit the audio for the show which will help take some of the load off my pals Patrick and Jon who’ve handled the huge task of editing all the past show recordings .

So now our program has three sound editors which will help us maintain our weekly schedule. Very nice.

I now return to some work for Paizo. For this batch. I’m starting each piece with watercolor and wrapping it up with acrylic. A pretty handy combination. I can work the watercolor to something quite fine and delicate and then step in with acrylic to lay on my opaque colors. I am am pleased so far with the working process and it reads quite well. 

Well, back to it.

See you tomorrow.