Wedgie's sketch blog

Had a productive day. Was also able to work on some personal projects. Here’s a little teaser! :)

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What happens when you have a plain cardboard canister, some markers, and an afternoon of procrastinating?

Check out the finished product here: http://www.wedgienet.net/arts-crafts/diy-muji-colored-pencil-tube/

I turned my plain old Kraft board canister of colored pencils into a kokeshi doll using Tria markers :)

Digital painting WIP of a scene from Schindler’s List. I started this hmmmmm maybe 2 months ago? And only worked on it again yesterday. By the time I finish this I’ll be 108 years old.

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Hi Mandy! Sorry it took me sooooo (10000x) long to get back to you :( Thought it would be fun to accompany this post with my work from years back to see how my drawings have changed since.

Hmm how did I start… I’ve been drawing and doodling since I was a kid but nothing more than that. I’ve gotten in trouble in school for drawing instead of listening in class (Zzz. So boring) so I tried to avoid drawing for a while in elementary and high school. I didn’t do any serious drawing for YEARS until 2008— when I was feeling burned out from my first job (in the broadcasting/video motion graphics industry). I was on the verge of resigning then and was thinking of what else I can do with my Multimedia Arts degree. By then I was already perusing some illustrators’ blogs and I’d think to myself, “I want to do that.” I resigned in mid-2008 and with so much free time on my hands, I picked up a pen/pencil again and just drew for fun.

I haven’t been as disciplined as I’d like to be when it comes to drawing everyday although I’ve really been making an effort to do just that in the past year or so. As for my style, I couldn’t see it at first when I started in 2008 but it’s only recently that I can look at my drawings and see some sort of consistency and cohesiveness beginning to take place. I’m still struggling to really find and refine my illustration style but I don’t really want to concern myself with that too much— I believe it’s something that you find and develop over time and practice. It’s also something that evolves— even established illustrators whose work I started following in 2004 have a slightly different style now than they did then. Personally, I’d love to see how different my drawings will look like three years from now :)

A drawing I did of my male classmates when I was a high school sophomore. As you can see, I wasn’t any good :P

My friends and I, doodled on my course notes in my college Oral Communications class. Not much better than my high school drawing!

2004 - my first paid illustration gig (nothing big— it was for a friend’s college thesis)

I didn’t draw AT ALL from 2005 to 2007. My job then took up all of my time.

Drawings from 2008 - Top drawing is my “audition piece” for a local children’s illustration group (Ang InK). I got in but I’m now an inactive member. Below that is one of my first entries to Illustration Friday.

2009. I’m starting to realize there’s a certain look to my drawings— cartoony, chunky, chubby, round people with soft features.

A doodle from last year (June 2010). My drawings of people are starting to elongate. LOL.

May 2011

Just keep drawing until you find a style you’re comfortable doing. It’s good to experiment and try out other styles too, just so you know which one works and which one doesn’t. Draw for fun, which is what drawing is in the first place— fun. Your style will eventually emerge. It may take years but if you draw everyday you’ll see your style develop faster and you’ll get better as well. I’m actually following this advice myself (and I wish I followed it sooner). I’m not a full-blown professional illustrator yet (more like a part-time illustrator/doodler) but I’d like to be. I’m still getting there, one sketchbook page at a time :)

Whoa this was a long post. But I hope I answered your question well enough and that others find this useful, too :)

Calling all artists, designers, illustrators, doodlers, writers… anybody with a soft spot for children, education, and anybody who has time to spare (that means you, you’re on Tumblr, aren’t you?). Kindly support this project by Hotel With Heart. Like their Facebook page and fill out a short form collecting your digital signature— for each signature they collect, they will donate one pencil for use in a mobile classroom benefiting children in the Philippines’ slum areas. They’re hoping to donate 10,000 pencils. All you need is a Facebook account and 30 seconds of your time to fill out the form. Thank you!

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