Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Um... a tiny button?
Hey guys, if you find this totally inappropriate, feel free to let me know and I'll delete the post right away. I just figured that it's an honor to be here with fellow artists, so I created an 88x31 button for the site. I dunno, it looks nice (I think) and I have it on my site. Feel free to use it!
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Television = Honour Mustard = Ehrensenf
Ehrensenf is a jumble of the German word Fernsehen, meaning Television. By rearranging the letters they make the German word Ehrensenf meaning Honour Mustard. You know, those little packets of mustard you get at your favorite fast food restaurant.It's like Rocketboom. Catchy name that has a new meaning all its own. I watched a few episodes of the program. Can't understand a thing the woman says but she talks about some cool things. Topics are often about web sites that are in English so it's all good.
Spezielle Ehrensenf Förderung.
Ab jetzt bis 11:59pm GMT, 01.08.06, wenn Sie eine Skizze von Skizze-ihm kaufen und das Segment auf Ehrensenf erwähnen, erhalten Sie eine zweite Skizze für freies. Sie müssen in Deutschland wohnen, um in der Lage zuSEIN teilzunehmen. Wir wissen, daß Sie durch den erste Seite Gebiet Code in Ihrem email sind.
Yeah new drawing for Lagol
Go this in the afternoon... wanted to play with it for a bit before I just posted whatever.. hope ya digs!!!
MK!
Sketches for Oliver
...please can it be cartoon like?
A request from Primlicious.com of a sketch from this photo: http://www.primlicious.com/primimages/wedding2.jpg
The request was added "please can it be cartoon like?"
Yeah, I think I can handle that ;)
Rose & Butterfly for Heidi
(Click for full view.)
This is the first sketch request I'm filling out. I'm sure glad it's about flowers. (Thanks Scott!)
I've posted three versions here because I couldn't quite decide. Heidi, I hope you will like at least one of them! :)
♥,
Sketch-it Invades Germany
After firing up my email this afternoon and seeing 13 requests all coming from the same Country Coded Top Level Domain of .DE I wondered what was going on. Then I looked at the linkage to sketch-it and it all became clear. Ehrensenf Internet TV featured sketch-it in one of their segments.I don't speak German but I have to assume that we got nothing but high praise considering the number of requests that have come in. The sketch has already been completed by WanderingPanda and you can view it here.
As a special thank you to our friends from Deutschland, sketch-it will make a special offer to all requests coming from the CC TLD of .DE. Buy a sketch from sketch-it, mention you saw the segment on Ehrensenf.de, and get a second sketch absolutely free. This offer is only good until 11:59pm GMT on Tuesday, 01Aug2006. Make sure you mention the segment on Ehrensenf.de and don't forget to request TWO sketches.
My Feet Itch!
Probably too much information regarding myself. Ha! Anyhoo, here's a sketch for Rainer Bender & Carola Haase-Sayer. You can check out the original photo over clickity here.
Woop!
Monday, July 24, 2006
5 for Jennifer
Jennifer provided 5 photos for reference for her five sketches!
Sketch 1:
(based on this photo)
Sketch2:
(based on this photo)
Sketch 3:
(based on this photo)
Sketch 4:
(based on this photo)
Sketch 5:
(based on this photo)
Sketch 1:
(based on this photo)
Sketch2:
(based on this photo)
Sketch 3:
(based on this photo)
Sketch 4:
(based on this photo)Sketch 5:
(based on this photo)Sunday, July 23, 2006
Hello
Feanne (new contributor) here.
Daily drawings (samples of my art) here.
Deviantart account (more samples of my art) here.
My designs on button badges (wear my art on your sleeve / shameless self-promotion) here.
As you can see... I'm not particularly good with non-abstract, representational-type drawing. Especially people-type drawings. But that's what most of the requests are about. So I'll try my best. I'm sure that the more I do it, the more I'll get better at it.
Please feed me with requests soon. :3
♥,
Daily drawings (samples of my art) here.
Deviantart account (more samples of my art) here.
My designs on button badges (wear my art on your sleeve / shameless self-promotion) here.
As you can see... I'm not particularly good with non-abstract, representational-type drawing. Especially people-type drawings. But that's what most of the requests are about. So I'll try my best. I'm sure that the more I do it, the more I'll get better at it.
Please feed me with requests soon. :3
♥,
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Limitations
To keep things fresh around here, in addition to posting sketches every day, we like to regularly change the Header Graphic. Sometimes it's not changed because we are not inspired to create a new one. Today inspiration struck.
I created this sketch while holding the pen in my mouth. Remember those stories on "Real People" and "That's Incredible"? They'd show a quadrapeligic person sketch a beautiful image by holding a pencil or paint brush in their mouths. Every now and then I wonder what would happen if I was paralyzed. Would I continue to create art?
The sketch took a long time. My jaw was very sore when I finished.
There was a man in my college comic book drawing class who was in a wheel chair. He had partial use of his hands. There was some sort of metal brace on his hands that he could use to grasp things by moving his arms a certain way. Once he had the pen he'd start drawing.
I'll have to dig up my old comic book the class created as part of their final for that class. It's somewhere in my office here.
Super. Yeah.
I would like a drawing of a man in a suit and tie ripping his shirt open. Under his shirt, is a camoflauge uniform. Sort of like Superman ripping his shirt open and you see the big "S". So yeah...
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Here Goes, eh?
Well, here goes my first sketch! I tried my best to stay within a reasonable time-frame (you know, floating around that minute). You guys can check out the original photo here. Alllllright!
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Kevin's Friends
"I'd like a sketch of my friends at the beach!"
Well, I started drawing your friends and enjoyed them just as they
are so I included the "beach" only as the ocean breeze through their hair.
all the Power to ya!!!!
Hey everyone,My name is Ryan Power, i'm the new scribe in town. ( That's artist to non-artist folk). i'm here to take any request for a picture you have; be it monsters, action heros, celebritites, or just people in general. Send a picture and I'll draw what's on it too!, Here's a sample of my work above. You can check out a few more of my drawings at ryanpower.blogspot.com. thanks! and I do take larger requests too!
Monday, July 17, 2006
Self Portrait
Marc asked for a "self portrait" and then sent a pic along - so maybe he didn't mean that he wanted a picture of myself. At first I was flattered - then sadly disapointed. Oh well, I went ahead and drew the girl in the picture instead ;)
Friday, July 14, 2006
Wandering Panda settles in.
Hi folks! Just wanted to make my way in and introduce myself. My name's Alexander Shen, but most people call me Alex ('cept this one feller at work who calls me Xander). I've been drawin' since I was four (so that's about 18 years) and just pull styles from all over the place.
I'll be here, fulfilling sketch requests and having nothin' less than a great time doin' it. [grin]
You can check out my work over at www.wanderingpanda.com. Cheers, to ye!
I'll be here, fulfilling sketch requests and having nothin' less than a great time doin' it. [grin]
You can check out my work over at www.wanderingpanda.com. Cheers, to ye!
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Charlie rockin' the gap
Charlie here is the 400th post here on sketch-it. Not bad for a blog that's only been around since January. Keep the request coming. We're having lots of fun.
I am not sure if the "gap" referred to in Kalli's request is the Gap shirt Charlie is wearing or the gap in his teeth. You decide.
I am not sure if the "gap" referred to in Kalli's request is the Gap shirt Charlie is wearing or the gap in his teeth. You decide.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Father & Son
Kalli requested a sketch of a photo of a father and son on a beach. My quick ball-point pens scratches doesn't do the photo much justice (click the heading to be taken to the photo link), but I hope I captured some of its essence:
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Don't Goooooo
A valuable person is leaving my neighborhood community. I hate to see her go but she is moving on to bigger and better things. She worked many, many, many, many long hours to make my neighborhood a better place.
Later today I will be attending a going away party for her and will present this drawing as a parting gift. It's a bit of an inside joke. Since it's the first time I've drawn a mummy, and since I have this neat-O web site called sketch-it, I figured I'd post it her for the world to see.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Curt and Lisa
I sent you another pic to draw of Curt and Lisa. That's Curt Smith from Tears for Fears. Those are my pics so there's no worry about copyright crap!
If we get sued then we'll blame it all on Karen.
Hot Surfer Dude (Naked?)
Yup - that was the request.
Of course "Sketch-It" is a family friendly site, but the buyer should get what they want (or at least as close as our artistic abilities will allow.)
The unedited version went directly to the buyer, and the family friendly version is shown here (sorry ladies ;) )
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Sketch in Progress
Karen requested a sketch and I thought I'd use it for a little test. A while back someone suggested that we record our sketches in progress and post them here. That's just what I did.The whole sketch took about 7 minutes to complete so I sped up the video so the whole thing takes little over 3 minutes.
In keeping with the creative commons spirit, I mixed the video with some music from Magnatune. The artist is Burning Babylon and the album is Knives To The Treble. I used track number 13, Dance Mi Dub.
If you'd like to see more video of artists sketching, just let us know.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Jeep that is Atomic
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| Can you do it in a similar style to the Bill Head on your blog? Not only can we do a similar style, because we are feeling extra nice we'll have the same artist that drew the Bill Head sketch draw your sketch. Don't get used to this sort of thing. Typically the next artist in the queue gets your request. Because the artist was a little late in getting this request completed, he decided to create two versions. Also not normally part of the deal. But that's the beauty of things that come from sketch-it. We can add an extra flourish if we want to. We're artists. We're supposed to be nutty and unpredictable. We set the expectation bar really low. One request + one dollar + one minute = one sketch. Anything beyond that is gravy. Such are the unexpected blessings in life. Covered in gravy I mean. | ||
Friday, July 07, 2006
Meredith and Father v2.0
Pic of myself and my dad (i'm trying to get a series 6 sketches done of the same photo) each by a different artist...jason did the first one for me so now i need a different artist for the next one.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
16 in the queue
Yes, we have received your request. Yes, we are working on it right now. Well, in order that they have arrived. Usually it takes at most one week to get your sketch delivered to you right here on sketch-it.
Because of the Fourth of July Holiday and some last minute editing on my documentary I have been absent my administrative duties here at sketch-it. Well, I'm back now and will commence with the cranking out of sketches for you.
Thank you for your patience and your patronage.
Because of the Fourth of July Holiday and some last minute editing on my documentary I have been absent my administrative duties here at sketch-it. Well, I'm back now and will commence with the cranking out of sketches for you.
Thank you for your patience and your patronage.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Two Friends
I did this one quite some time ago, over and over again. Originally it had a hammock as well but I abandoned that as well as realism simply because everytime I drew the blond kind he looked like and old man....I need practice. So.....here it be Sketch number 10 I guess...archived and done
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