Snippets: A Pocket Anthology of Images and Oddity

Well folks, the fateful day has arrived. All thirty of  my Snippets illustrations are finished and ready to share! I am so excited to have reached this milestone and so, so thankful to everyone who helped me by sending me sentences and offering encouragement and inspiration. You guys are awesome!! ^_^ Also, even though I reached my goal of thirty illustrations, I had several leftover sentences that I really want to work with, as well as a bunch that people sent me after I reached my goal. So, I've decided to make Snippets an on going project. I'll be taking it at a much slower, more relaxed pace, but expect to see more of these weird little images in the future!

And now, on to the drawings!

P. S. I'm also going to post all my the Snippet illustrations on their own separate page. Just look up at the top of  my blog for the title "Snippets", next to the "Home" tab.

onward and upward,

Bethany

April Skill Building: Poses

Since I'm trying to finish up Snippets, my skill building routine has been somewhat neglected. Hopefully that project will be done soon (only 5 illustrations left to go! ^_^) and I can get back into a regular drawing habit. Till then, here are a few basic poses.

onward and upward,

Beth

Snippets: A Pocket Anthology of Images and Oddity (part 2)

I am sooo excited about sharing the second part of this project! ^_^ It's been quite the journey working on these images and I would be lying if I said it was all sunshine and bunnies. Truth be told, these last ten illustrations were pretty challenging and I definitely considered giving up the rest of the project a few times. But, I wanted to push myself to complete something bigger. I'm pretty good at nailing down the small stuff, but when given a larger project, I tend to run out of steam and leave it unfinished. One of my long term goals for this year is to finish more things so they don't hang over my head for months, making me feel guilty.

Alright, enough ramble. On to the artwork!

onward and upward!

Beth

March Sketchbook '14

Wow, March is pretty much over already! Time goes by so quickly. Anyway, here are this month's sketches.  

onward and upward,

Bethany

Grey paper sketches

I had several possible projects for today, all of which got hung up at one point or another. So, here are a few sketches I did in the grey paper sketchbook Jon got me this week. I haven't worked in grey paper for who knows how long. Using white as the dominant color is an interesting change of process. Plus, it's a good way to use up those white pencils that never see any action!

onward and upward,

Bethany

March skill building : (More) Mountains and musicians

A few musician studies and some more mountains for that painting I mentioned last month. I'm finally getting closer to actually starting it!

onward and upward,

Bethany

Car sketches

This post is all about the idea, not the final product. I decided back last August to start keeping sketchbooks in the car and sketch in them while riding in the passenger seat. Needless to say, 98.7% of what gets drawing in my car sketchbooks is ugly, which is why I haven't shared them till now. But the idea of sketching as much as possible is something I've been trying to be more disciplined about. Plus, drawing in a moving car has it's own unique challenges. You have about four seconds to capture the way something looks before it zooms out of sight, forcing you to throw down its' basic shape as quickly and succinctly as possible. There's little to no time for details. And, since it's so hard to produce a "good" drawing when you sketch in the car, you don't get hung up on your failures.

So, here is a very small selection from my most recent car sketchbook. (Also, I don't always sketch in green crayon, I just happened to have one with me at the time.)

onward and upward,

Bethany