itesser ink: progress, uncensored

I've settled into a bit of a pattern with my daily sketchings. There are two warm ups.

First, an Mbear drops onto the page for the opening ceremonies. As a default character, I usually use Mbear to mark the beginning of the day's work. Never holding a calendar or anything, but serving that purpose, separating one day from the next. Except since Mbear performs other doodle duties other than just that, it's not a pure mark of recognition when looking back through the pages, but it is a ritual of practice.

Second come timed, warm-up sketches, all referenced, usually figure drawing. Reading blogs is often one of the first things I do on any given day, and as I go through the dozen or so posts waiting for me, I open into separate tabs images I especially like and find inspiring. I download these images to later inspire me to whatever end, but the process of saving them takes between 10 and 15 seconds (firefox is laggy for whatever reason), and I use those 10 to 15 seconds to do brief, gestural drawings. Most photos for reference come from the Face Hunter blog. The first image here is a partial example of my warm-up page.



Mostly 20k in this second one, and recognizably so. But top right, bottom left, and sitting on a stump in the middle of the page... all those are from an episode of Wonderfalls. I watched 11 episodes of it last night and loved it. Great cast of characters, both recurring and episodic.



There was something vaguely intelligent I wanted to write about here, but I cannot remember what. I am very tired.