Guest Artists: Easter-ish

I was drawing with a few of my nieces yesterday at my brother's house (there was a sleepover), and we couldn't come up with anything 'timely' to draw. So we decided to do some scenes where "Easter egg time" didn't go quite right...

Helena's "That's Not a Chicken Egg!"

Jackie's "Hungry Bunnies & Aliens"

Uncle Kenny's "Steal an Egg for Ariel"

In the Margins

I have a notebook that I keep near the tv/reading chair for jotting down ideas and doodling. I forget what show or movie I was watching last week, but I drew the picture below. I colored it tonight. It's an old doll near a broken wall:

"Aquarium" flash setting - I prefer this one.

"Indoor" flash setting - washed out, but closer to real life.

The Bashful Squid

Not all of my drawings end up resulting in what I went after. I drew a practice version of this squid in ink, and then wanted to try a different approach for the 'true' drawing. I used the colored pencils to lay out the form first, and then inked over the creature afterward (instead of pencils, inks, then color).

She is floating under the sea, bubbling away happily, yet feeling a bit shy about having her image rendered...

Winter Storm Vulcan

"Being expected to anticipate a storm of this magnitude
so late in the season is highly illogical..."

Mappy

I've been playing Grand Theft Auto V on my PS3 a lot lately, and I have the map draping down from the top of the bookcase my tv sits atop. Staring at the map over and over, a curious figure took shape in my mind, so I drew it:

The figure's fist should be a bit larger, with the fingers tilted more toward the face, but I am mostly happy with how it turned out.