Friday, September 29, 2006
Guido
This request was sent in by Greg but the image was titled "guido" so that's what I titled this post. The image is rather tiny. 155 x 119 pixels tiny. That's why I decided to make the sketch tiny. I used an ultra-fine Micron pen. Sometimes I work really big and shrink it all down. Other times I work tiny and then enlarge it. Differences in scale sometimes yield nifty results.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Posting Problems
No new posts since Friday? What gives?
Yes, rarely does a day go by where there isn't at least one new requested sketch posted here on sketch-it. The fact that this post has made it up here is a bit of a surprise though. Blogger has been acting persnickety lately.
All customers with outstanding requests have been notified by email.
We appreciate your patience.
Scott Moore
Yes, rarely does a day go by where there isn't at least one new requested sketch posted here on sketch-it. The fact that this post has made it up here is a bit of a surprise though. Blogger has been acting persnickety lately.
All customers with outstanding requests have been notified by email.
We appreciate your patience.
Scott Moore
Friday, September 22, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Sit in my lap
There's nothing more comforting than sitting in your parent's lap. Now that's contentment.
Alex and Daisy
Daisy Daisy,Give me your answer do!
I'm half crazy,
All for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage,
But you'll look sweet on the seat
Of a bicycle built for two !
Highland Cow
A CUNNINGHAM requested "A head and shoulders cartoon of a highland cow, with the large horns made to look like a viking helmet. Some kind of quirky grin about the mouth (eyes not visible under hair), and 'HHH' emblazoned on" the text stopped there... so I don't know what the rest was supposed to say...
This was another fun one to do:
This was another fun one to do:
Cultural Canaries
Susan's request read "I'd like a cartoon style (cute/kawaii/anime whatever) sketch of some birds hanging out and reading the newspaper. Or something "intelligent" like that. I've got a group blog called "cultural canaries" and I'd like to post the sketch there, possibly in the sidebar (so narrow and long is better than flat and wide)."
I love requests like these, use of the lil' imagination! Here's the sketchy results:
culturalcanaries.blogspot.com
I love requests like these, use of the lil' imagination! Here's the sketchy results:
culturalcanaries.blogspot.com
Dog Tattoo
Tony requested "This will be for a tattoo, I would really like to capture his likeness. " using this photo as reference, I put together this sketch 
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
White on Black Doggie
I'm a glutton for punishment. Here I go again with a white on black treatment of a request. I rather like this one. I suppose it helps to have a good photo to start with. One that is already quite dark.This one had hints of highlight here and there on the eyeball and lid that lent itself easily to white on black.
I hated drawing animals as a boy but these days I quite enjoy it. Who knew?
Evelyn's Doggie
This is the perfect sized dog to ride around with you in the car.My first job that the government tracked was as a grocery bagger at Payless Foods. One woman who frequented the store had a special shelf constructed in her car's passenger front seat. It was covered with carpet and had a little matching pillow. The shelf was for her little corkie.
Payless was an upscale store before it was purchased by Hen House, a local discount chain. It was a great place to work as a bagger because we often got tipped for bringing the bags out to the customer's cars.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
Thursday, September 14, 2006
The 'Rents
I dig the glass case in the shirt pocket. This is the second of four sketches for Evelyn. I'm liking this series so far.
Mommy's Girl
This is one of four I'm completing for Evelyn. We love multiple sketches per request at sketch-it. The artist gets to complete a series of sketches. Sometimes it's variations on a theme. One person in multiple locations or with different friends in each picture. Other times its different people from the same family.We also like them because PayPal takes out less money per sketch because the flat transaction fee is spread out between more sketches. It's not going to make any of us rich but every little bit helps. Besides what we do here is about more than the money.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Cutie patootie
Apparently I missed on e of my requests so I spent a bit more time on it than usual.
Hope ya like it!
:)
Shane
For Mr.Brown
Mr.Brown emailed us a photo to recieve the "Sketch-It" treatment, here's the quick ballpoint doodle:
Request #100
Yup! Hitting the triple digits. This is the 100th request I've been assigned and it's for Monique!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Les Putafranges
Not sure what a "putafranges" is. It could mean black 'cause there was a lot of black all over this photo. These women are really close friends. I can tell because they blended into one being with all the black everywhere. Very serious.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Field of Hope
My son, Ezra, out in a field on a sunny day
This is my new favourite customer submitted image. I'm also very happy with the sketch. Mostly happy. Hands are just plain difficult to draw. I love the look of total concentration on Ezra's face as he navigates a field of tall grass, perhaps for the first time in his life.
It is an image of cautious optimism which I think we all could use more of these days.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Do You Measure Up?
Melissa sent me a picture of, I assume, herself standing in front of a most unusual measuring device. It got me to think, "How DO I measure up to a full-grown gorilla?" How do any of us?
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Friday, September 08, 2006
Thursday, September 07, 2006
One for Ms. Lam
The original image actually had, mmmm, eight or so photos of the same person. I automatically assumed that I was to pick my favorite ones to illustrate?Hoo boy, I hope I can follow directions.
One for Phong
The last of my pencil sketches. Gonna try my hand at using pen only.A beautiful couple, by the way.
doggie
It's such a cute and adorable doggie, I'm just having trouble with the drawing. I'm really bad at drawing dogs. Like I'm really bad at drawing people. But I really want to get better.
This is my attempt...
Allison, I may actually be a cat person, but I love pets in general and I know how precious they can be. :) Have a fluffy day!
♥,
Feanne
This is my attempt...
Allison, I may actually be a cat person, but I love pets in general and I know how precious they can be. :) Have a fluffy day!
♥,
Feanne
Cyberey Cute
Young love.I'm not sure how to pronounce Michael's last name but I assume it rhymes with berry. That rhymes with very and these two are. "Very cute" that is.
Ronald's in da house
I'm not one to shill for the man but I saw this and busted a gut. What does it have to do with sketch-it? Nothing. It's just funny.Since sketch-it consumes all of my free time and I've deleted all of my other blogs, this is where I am posting this image from the flickr, Engrish Set.
Clowns scare me. Mickey-D's scares me. I guess that's why I'm a no-face-paint, lacto, ovo, vegetarian. Still it's good to see that Ronald's got her back.
IMG_0098
Originally uploaded by art.reyu.
Way 2 Go
I think it's wonderful of you to do this...
Please sketch my daughter, this is her 'after' picture after losing 60 lbs !!
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Tram Trio
I would like to see Jason's rendition of my family's pic if possible!
Well, Jason is taking a little hiatus right now. In fact many artists are on leave as they return to school. We still have a dedicated troop of sketchers to complete your requests. It's just that it may take a little longer for you to get a finished image.
Still the most creative gift for your loved one and a great value.
Shane Insane :: Artist Profile #1
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| Custom Illustration by Morgan Owens |
This is Shane Corn. He is, among many other things, a contributing artist here at sketch-it. We want you, the visitors, to know us, the artists, a little better. That's why we've created a semi-regularly occuring feature called "Artist Profile". Below is a conversation with Shane.
Sketch-It: You spent a year in Chi-town and the last five in L.A. Where are you from?
Shane: Northern California ( San Joaquin County Bay Area )
S-I: Being self taught, when did you receive your first terrible but good critique of your work?
Shane: My first real critique came from a friend of mine,,, he was really hard on me and hurt my feelings it really rocked me and pushed me to become a better designer..
S-I: Why did you leave your job at the Cartoon Network working on "Camp Lazlo"?
Shane: Laid off... They wanted to change designers, I aint mad at em.. it's how the buisness goes..
S-I: Who was your early champion, telling you to forget what everyone else said about being practical in your career choice and follow your talent in drawing?
Shane: My parents have always been really supportive but I guess it was my friends here (in LA) who made me feel like what I was doing was right... Like I belong in animation and design
S-I: Do you often commiserate with fellow artists and blow off steam?
Shane: I am the guy who started the Los Angeles based Sketchbook sessions.....so yeah.. we are a group that tries to get together monthly and draw together and talk over beers and relax... It will be 5 years in october.. we started with 7 people now its a global thing happening world wide.. most recently in Japan... ( there are about 35 members, some old schoolers some new recruits, at every function )
S-I: If you could be any type of medium what would you be? Pencil? Brush? Watercolor?
Shane: I'd be Paint... at least right now.. been painting a lot.. LOL I love that paint is so OPEN for expression.. it can be tight and classic it can be very abstract there is color and B/W there is texture... It's like the ultimate medium for me.. and I love the way it moves..
S-I: Right handed or left handed?
Shane: Both... Im ambidex.
S-I: What does your workspace look like? Ordered chaos? Sickeningly organized?
Shane: Some would say I work in a mess .. Francis Bacon would call my workplace immaculate.. It's a controlled chaos.. I know where most things are.. and I like it that way!
S-I: Who would you like to have draw you? This can be anyone in history dead or alive.
Shane: dead...Norman Rockwell.. that man was like the Jesus of illustration... Alive..Claire Wendling or Peter DeSeve .. They are both fantastic
S-I: If you suddenly lost your sight what would you do?
Shane: Ive thought about this a million times and I always come to the same conclusion.. I'd sculpt.. and be an imagination machine for people.. describing what I could see for them to design around. since I have already been given this fantastic gift of sight....
To learn more about Shane visit:
Maizekid74.deviantart.com
maizekid.blogspot.com
coming soon: Shanecorn.com
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Ascii Me No Questions
I regularly check the stats on sketch-it to see how people find our service. FreshArrival is a site that posts one cool thing each day. One day they posted a story about sketch-it. I had read it before but never checked back.By going to the most recent posting and then clicking back a few posts in the archive I found out about Typorganism. That's where I created this neat ascii image using their Ascii-O-matic. I tried to post the ascii text with HTML but Blogger didn't like it and made it look all wonky.
This is my friend David. He's a computer savvy guy so I thought it quite fitting that he get his image up on sketch-it like this.
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Saturday, September 02, 2006
I really like this picture, it looks as though they have just rowed across that lake! Very fun couple!
Patsy
This request was a load of fun! The scan of the image is a little wierd because I had to push the light pencil tones in the figure using the scanner. If your browser will allow it, you can click on the image for an enlarged look, and then you can 'zoom' in for a closer look. The original looks beautiful in blue-colored pencil though. If anyone wants to stop by to see or purchase the original - I'm at home all weekend. Thank you for the opportunity!
Made from this photo.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Learning!
Something (anything) for an article on how the social web is opening new possibilities participation and collective action, especially in informal learning.
Okie dokie.
Three Sketches for Darrell
It's something you'd see on a Life cereal box... or was that Life magazine? *shrug*
Seeba Family at Lake Tahoe
Jason sent in this photo to recieve the Sketch-It treatment... here's the result:
Young Love
This is my fiance, right after we started dating like almost five years ago. be creative however you'd like.
For Jason
The nib on my ink pen is broken, so I am finding new things to draw with. This is in coloured pencil. :)
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