Boring painful recovery.
Fun pictures.
Not much drawing.
An awesome new journal I got.

 Few sketches.

WOO! Lots to talk about now. First off I had my wisdom teeth removed yesterday. It took a full fourteen hours for my face to become un-numb. Secondly (Is that even a word? Spell check says it is so I am going to leave it) Christmas was pretty awesome! My parents got me Greg 'Craola' Simkins' book Drawn From the Well. I love it! So if some of my drawings start to look like copies of his it's probably because I was heavily influenced by his art at the time lol. I also got a bunch of money for my camera that I've been saving up for, which brings me to thirdly. THIRDLY I GOT MY NEW CAMERA!!! I am very excited about it if you couldn't tell. This changes multiple things about my blog now. One thing it adds is that I will most likely also start posting a weekly photograph, or maybe even more frequent. The second thing it changes is that the drawings I post will most likely be taken with said camera instead of having to travel to the school library to scan them. This may increase the number of drawings posted, I'm not sure.

Now that I can't think of any other events happening in my life right now I guess it's time for the whole reason you guys read this blog...

OH YES! I forgot something. So, Fourthly I might be going to Chicago for spring break with some of my closest friends. I really hope it works last time we tried our plans kind of fell through the cracks at the last minute.

Hope you have a great week!

Kyle

So it took a day longer than I thought but I finally got some sketches scanned. I guess I was wrong about sketching more I guess it just feels like it since I spent lot of time on a commission drawing.

Here is one. I'm saving the only other sketch I have scanned for next weeks post when I will be recovering from having my wisdom teeth removed.

Also I would like to just talk about something I noticed today when I was at Borders. I had just left and right as I stepped outside I noticed an amazing sunset with some awesome color and cloud action going on. Kind of amazed I looked around to see if anyone else noticed. Everyone around me was rushing in and out of stores hurrying to finish their last minute Christmas shopping. Every person I saw looked upset, rushed, and tired. As I drove home I made sure to keep an eye on the sky watching the great sunset develop and change right before my eyes. I guess what I'm getting at is to not let the small things in life like, busy traffic, rushed shopping, and so on, get you down and keep looking for sources of wonder in your life.

Hey guys! I just wanted to let you guys know I survived finals and have been drawing a lot more lately. Tomorrow I'm going up to the library to scan some pictures then I'll be able to post some for this week!

Thanks for reading

Kyle

Finals are almost over. It is almost Christmas.

don't remember posting this before.... just another page of doodles.

oops I made ultra high res for those of you that want a copy just print it out!

I know it's not much but it's what I did while studying for my mythology final.

This is what most of my doodles look like.

enjoy

Kyle

I would like to say I'm sorry. Sorry that I have been so wrapped up in final projects and studying for finals that I haven't had time to post any pictures. I will make sure to designate some time tomorrow to post a picture. Only a week left until the semester is over and then it is time to get started on some commission work I have to do over the break before I get my wisdom teeth out two days after Christmas... WOO! not really... I'm not a huge fan of someone putting me to sleep, going into my mouth and cutting four of my teeth out, but it needs to be done so I will do it.

Hope your finals, jobs, daily lives go well,
Kyle

OH YEAH! I would like to say Happy Birthday to my good friend The Late Boy! happy birthday lol

Nothing to say today, just a sketch from this morning.

Nothing to really show today.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. If you have any awesome stories I would love to hear them!

I know it isn't scanner quality but I started the painting of the previous sketch.

it's backwards here and has no chandelier yet.

I sit here at lunch right after psychology where we were learning about anxiety disorders. Psych is one of my favorite classes this semester. I love learning about the way people think and why. The only problem is it doesn't really help me figure out why I some of the thoughts that run through my head do run through my head. In psych my professor called them intrusive thoughts. Thoughts we don't want to think about but they pop into our heads and we usually dismiss them. For example, many people have violent intrusive thoughts, thoughts about doing something extremely violent and out of character but they are usually marked absurd and dismissed from our thoughts as quickly and sudden as they appeared. That doesn't always happen for me. The dismissing part about certain intrusive thoughts. Those of you reading are probably thinking I'm some sort of homicidal maniac that thinks about violence all day long, but I'm not talking about violent intrusive thoughts. I'm talking about thoughts of betrayal. Some times I start thinking those I hold dearest are going to betray me in the most hurtful ways. But I have no grounds to hold on to these thoughts. These people have never betrayed me before or if they have it wasn't intentional to hurt me. So, why can't I dismiss these thoughts and go about my day normally.

I meant to bring my bigger sketchbook to scan some images of quick face sketches of my family I did over the weekend but I guess this will have to do for now. 

I plan to paint this or something like it over Christmas break while I'm recovering from having my wisdom teeth removed. Now I'm going to go use a letterpress for the first time, or at least learn to use it. Pretty excited!

Keep it legendary.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

So yes I went to see Harry Potter today, and yes it was freakin' amazing but I don't want to talk about the movie more of what it made me think.

I have never been one to associate with people who I thought were just given everything. The kids who drove brand new BMW's that their parents gave them for their 16th birthday, those kids weren't my friends. I felt that they were more shallow than me because they had everything they wanted at the tips of their fingers. Lately after reading The Hunger Game series, seeing the movie tonight, and seeing people around my town, I have realized that I am that person. I have never struggled for anything, fought for anything, or even been desperate for something that I needed. Everything I have ever needed or wanted I could simply ask my parents for it or wait for Christmas where I knew I could practically get anything I wanted. I don't know what I'm trying to get at by saying this. I guess I just want to say that I feel almost ashamed for everything I have.

wrote all over a sketchbook again

Here is the picture I told you about yesterday.




and this one is from a few days ago that I just now scanned.



Hopefully I can continue to crank out sketches that I like.
Have a good weekend
Kyle

I've been looking at the world differently. I have been asking myself how would I draw that. Instead of just imagining the simple shape of something, I think of breaking it down even further into smaller shapes and then imagine the light and why the shadows look the way they do.

I have a pretty awesome drawing that I'll post tomorrow

talk to you then

Bored. This guy kinda just appeared on my paper... Don't ask what it is, I don't know...




PS my home scanner is the worst.

Here it is

Recently I have not been liking any of my drawings and that's the main reason for the slow posting. Even more recently I have become slightly obsessed with the comic book heroes from my childhood (they were more of tv heroes since I never really got comic books, but I knew where they came from and have a great respect for comic artists), such as Spiderman, Batman, Superman, The Flash (my flash drive is named this lol), The Green lantern, and a lot of others. Today before a test in psychology I sketched The Flash's face from my memory, it's not really The Flash but more just my rendering of someone looking like him... anyways I like it so I will try to post it later today or tomorrow.

Until then have an awesome time
Kyle

Ya, I haven't been sketching much, but the few I have done I have been working on hatching and cross hatching. Not super exciting but it's something...



I would also like to congratulate my friend for getting featured blog two days in a row (or something like that) on Wordpress! His blog is www.mchael.wordpress.com CHECK IT OUT!!!

I know I haven't put up a picture this week, I'm sure you noticed, so I have decided that I will post an older sketch that I never posted. I will just try harder to sketch more and make sure to scan them.

We climb into the back yard of a quarry. At first it's no big deal. We're behind what seems to be an abandoned mill house. Take a few pictures. I climb up a ladder to the roof to see what's up there. We're still pretty covered but more exposed than behind the building. Stairs to the left lead up to a dark room, another ladder to the right leads to an even more exposed roof. Take a few pictures on the middle roof. We want to head up the stairs, but I hesitate this is the most exposed we could be. We take them as quickly as we can without making too much sound, and slip into the room. Heart thumping through my chest. From in here I can here thumping from somewhere below us. I start to freak, thinking maybe someone is working down there. My friend notices and calmly says "It's just the wind". This doesn't comfort me. I walk around while he grabs as many pictures as he can. He has a DSLR camera. Mine is film, so I take one or two in this room. I realize how constricting my prime lens is; it's hardly capturing the whole picture I would like it too. I try to write down how I feel through this whole time but my heart is pumping adrenaline through my whole body and it's hard to keep my hand steady enough to write anything. Thirty minutes pass and we got what we came for. We speed down the stairs not worry about the noise this time. If anyone had seen us or heard us it would have happened already. Go to the more exposed roof just to see if there are any good spots. I feel trapped like a rat in a corner with no escape. I have to get back down as quickly as possible. Leave the way we came. Sigh of relief, I feel like I've been holding my breath so I compensate with a few deep ones. On are way back we pass an abandoned building surrounded by trees. We decide to take a look. Step through some over growth. I feel much more relaxed, more casual. This looks more like a old auto repare place. The front of a truck sits outside rusting away slowly. Tires litter the yard along with sheet metal once used for the roofing. Inside the building is pretty interesting. I take more pictures here, wishing I had a DSLR instead of a film one. Hope these all turn out good. I also really wish I had a fisheye lens or a wide angle to get more of what I see.

I love making up stories.

Maybe I'll get a sketch up later.

I haven't been drawing much. Mainly writing but that counts in by book, my sketchbook that is HA HA [sorry i get the lame jokes from my uncle ;)]. So here they are.







BTW! I finished this sketchbook today! WOOT! This rarely happens

an extremely edited version of the cover of one of my sketchbooks, so that you can see some of the writing I do on it. I wonder if anyone can read it... I write over stuff I have already written so there are multiple layers of writing there...

A few paintings

HELL-O EVERY-ONE! This is, again, a sad post with no pictures. I have been working though, somewhat, and at the same time I haven't been working nearly enough. I have been playing Halo way too much. Sometimes I think about it while I'm in class, studying, drawing, working, while I'm with my girlfriend. Sometimes I try to get home as fast as I can to play it; like from school or when I'm with friends or my girlfriend (hope you don't get too mad at me love). I wake up thinking about it; wondering what the new challenges for today will be. The point is that it's bad. I need to stop thinking about it so much so that I can focus more on the important things. It needs to become a much smaller part in my life.

Whoo! (wipes sweat from brow) Now that I got that off my chest... I have been working on a project for one of my design classes. We have to take an animal and combine it with a man made object. I started out knowing exactly what I wanted to do, which isn't good. We were supposed to "brainstorm" and come up with something like 20-40 random combinations. Then take all those ideas and narrow them down to 10-20 combinations that you could possibly end up doing. From that, take 4 good ideas and flush them out with sketches all the way to coloring them (these colored ones will be turned in next to the final project to show some of the progression of your work). Finally, after doing all this, from those 4 pick one to do a whole environment for. This is not how my thinking process went. Mine was more like this. I will do a heron and a crane. Crap. Now I have to work backwards and come up with three more not as good ideas (buffalo cruise ship, jellyfish television (I like this one), bee cement mixer). Crap now I have to come up with 6-16 more vague ideas, that I wont even sketch. See how much easier the first way would have been. Anyways I have been working on the small sketches and now I am doing full sketches with color of my 4 main ideas. All of them but the buffalo cruise ship have the possibility of being my final illustration.

With that said I am also trying to finish a painting I started before summer vacation, so that I can donate it to a group of friends that are having an art sale to raise money for a mission trip they are going on. I am also wanting to start a painting on an empty spray paint can. I know it is kinda cliche but I want to so I will.

On a side note (this has to be the longest freaking post ever) I have been getting these bouts of extreme dizziness and light headed-ness. So extreme that it has prevented me on going to hike Hemmed In Hallow with my best friend, which really sucks.

Until my next post (which with be much shorter and have pictures for you to feast your eyes upon) enjoy,
Kyle

Some drawings. I know you have already seen one, but I scanned it. I don't know why I've been drawing jellyfish...

I'm sitting here in my room relaxing to some awesome instrumental rock on Pandora. I have been thinking about a lot lately, but not really getting anywhere with these thoughts. I wonder what I'll do after college. Will I leave this town that I have lived in my whole life? If I do will I become a different person? Will I be able to adapt to that kind of change? What if I don't leave this town? Will I live the same life I'm living now? Will everything stay the same; never changing for better or for worse? I wonder about who I am. Am I really who I think and say I am? Have I hid behind a mask for so long that I don't even realize I'm still hiding? I say I know who I am, but do I? Then I think about my relationships. Will I ever be able to balance them? Will I ever truly be a servant of God, or will I just keep looking for the answer and never taking any action?

Just a few of the questions bombarding my brain.
Kyle

I'm sitting at Heroes coffee keeping one of my friends company while he works. There is a girl here singing and playing the guitar. She has a beautiful voice.


Here is a picture that I drew while my friend worked and I listened to the music.



and here is a video of Madi Walker singing a song about my friend while he worked lol. I didn't get the whole thing thought :( and I hope he doesn't hate me.

Here is one of the idea's I got from Pinocchio. The other one didn't turn out as goo because I based it too much on a reference picture.

I have a new picture, but it hasn't been scanned yet. I will post it in about an hour and a half. That hour and a half is now up.
here are some helmet/skulls/mask thing-a-ma-bobs



I have also come up with a few new ideas for the next few days. I got the ideas yesterday while watching Pinocchio, which I fell asleep during. I plan on watching it again, and not falling asleep, to, maybe, come up with a few more ideas. You should just be really excited about my next drawings, just sayin'.

Have a great week,
Kyle

Let me just start out by saying I haven't forgotten you guys. The main reason I didn't post anything the past few days is because they have been pretty hectic. This past week was full of last minute changes to projects, last minute cramming for tests, and what little free time I had was spent with my girlfriend, and maybe a little bit of Halo (you have to fit stress relief in there somewhere). With all of that I was unable to get back to the library to scan anything. Enough with the excuses. Thursday I was looking around a thrift store and happened upon a typewriter. I have been wanting one for a while now. The only thing was, it was an electric one. I really wanted an old mechanical one. I carried it around while I continued to look. I was over by some shoes when I heard clink clink clink ding! Then a boy said to his sister "It's my turn!" I looked over and they were fighting over the exact thing I was just thinking about, the old mechanical typewriter. I watched and waited until their mother took them away to look at clothes. I rushed over and examined it to make sure there was no major damage. I couldn't see anything that was too bad, a few disconnected keys, a bent striker nothing I couldn't fix. I went ahead and bought it for only 7 dollars! The rest of that night was spent fixing the bent striker and figuring out how it all worked. I've been typing a story on it and I love it!

Now I am working on an animation for one of my classes. 10 seconds with 12 frames per second 120 frames. I will make sure to get a picture or two up sometime this week.

until then,
Kyle

Found a cool book of birds in the library yesterday, and a not as good one of insects.

Drew these over the weekend.

Inspired by Craola, of course. I really want to get his book that just came out.



I just found Aaron Horkey's work, so amazingly one of my first drawings takes almost the exact subject matter from his work.



next post planned for thursday
hope your fall is starting off better than mine, enjoy

Just wanted to share this with you guys, An Interview with Aaron Horkey- Part Two http://www.hifructose.com/the-blog/930-an-interview-with-aaron-horkey-part-two.html I thought it was really interesting and would love to do something like that.

This update is going to be a little depressing; it will have no picture. D: I KNOW! It isn't my fault though. I even went back to the library to scan some this evening. As I walked in all the lights went out and a worker came up to me. "Dude the library closed 5 minutes ago." he said. WTF! What library closes at 6p.m. on a weekend! Although there is good news. The good news is that I have been drawing more, writing some short stories (or at least working on one), and doing a bunch of design homework (by that I mean doing a little here a little there on two projects). Hopefully I will get another post up this weekend and hopefully it will have a picture.

Until then have a great weekend,
Kyle

Thinking about clouds animals and came up with this.



I honestly don't know if anyone reads this, so if you do or you just happen to come across it and like a picture just leave a comment or something.

I read The Wizard of Oz Marvel comic book today that is illustrated by Skottie Young. I just have to say that he is pretty freakin amazing. If I could draw comics or cartoon characters that is what I would strive for, to be like Skottie Young. Alas, I can not. Instead, I think I will start writing some stories or at least ideas that come into my head through out the day. They might help me come up with more original characters or scenes for drawings.

I haven't scanned a picture for today because it's only 12:36 in the morning so I will make sure to do that later, or I might end up writing a story for you guys that I come up with during the day.

While reading The Wizard of Oz and some of the stories in the article about Craola I realized that both stories approached the story as a child would. Without trying to make everything fit into the way the "real world" works. The characters took things literally and stories were built on thoughts we all have thought about such as toys coming to life, or the stories that cloud animals tell us (the rhino with an octopus body swam through the ocean of clouds as the bear with a tiger head 'Kalidahs from The Wizard of Oz' breathed fire setting the forrest ablaze).

Ps I really like music

So here is a drawing I did after writing this. It's a copy of Skottie Young's Kalidah from The Wizard of Oz, just to do a study of it.

Not much to say today.
sketch of a squirrel I saw this morning, focused on it's head shape and eye.

I told you. I told you I wouldn't post any pictures over the weekend. I was right. As the weekend ends I have this gapping feeling that I accomplished nothing at all. That is probably because I didn't. I should have done more homework; I should have done something other than Halo. I'm reading the latest issue of Juxtapoz, specifically the article on Greg "Craola" Simkins. It makes me want to draw so much, but at the same time I know that none of my drawings will look as good as those that I look at.

I sit and read about artists that have filled hundreds of sketchbooks where I can hardly say I have filled two, and I can hardly even start the one that I bought for the Sketchbook Project. I read stories that flow from the minds of others, where mine struggles to painstakingly come up with the few sentences for this blog.

I sketched a little while typing this so hopefully I'll remember to scan them and upload them tomorrow.

Until then enjoy yourselves,
Kyle

Ps I know this isn't a drawing but I made this today for a project

Well, I don't have a new sketch for today but I figured I could tell you some good news! I found my sketchbook project sketchbook! Isn't that exciting!? I need to start drawing in it more I have like 4 months to finish it and get it shipped off.

In other good news, Halo Reach is amazing! I messed around in forge world yesterday and ended up building a pretty awesome map in 4 hours and I didn't even realize that much time had past. My friends and I are having a LAN party tomorrow so I'm not sure if I'll get an update posted or not, we'll see. I am sure that one of my friends will draw something in one of my sketchbooks through out the course of 12 hours. Bring on the Mt. Dew...

Halo: Reach. That is all that is needed to be said to explain why there was no picture yesterday. Now that I have played it for about 7 hours since I got it I will try to make time to post something today.




Inspired by Craola just like a lot of my other stuff.

Sorry I didn't post anything over the weekend. I know all of you are just on the edge of your seats waiting for my latest drawing (sarcasm). I had to make sure to get all my homework done and start studying for a test I have tomorrow morning so that I would be ready to go get Halo: Reach tonight at midnight! Although, I promise that I will try to post one later while I study. Oh and I have sad news... I believe that I have lost my sketchbook project sketchbook D: I think I left it in the library after scanning pictures on friday. I know, it is horrible...

Here is an amazing doodle from my boredom in chemistry!!!

So I fail at this blogging everyday thing, or at least remembering to post a picture with it, or to remember to do it later after I forget the first time. Today, though, I will make it up to you with multiple sketches! Isn't that exciting! Also, I rescanned a lot of my sketches with the scanner at the school library, they look auh-mazing now.

I'm sitting in the library working on another project, reading for bible study, trying to study Classical Mythology and Psychology all at the same time. I have to scan some pictures for this project so next time I go over there to scan a picture I'll scan my one of my drawings to post up.

NEVER MIND! Somehow I got so wrapped up in my work that I forgot to scan it. So I guess once I get home I'll scan one on my less than awesome scanner.

Enjoy the rest of your night.

I don't know if I'll get to post a picture today. I have to finish a project, go to bible study, do other homework, read, and a bunch of other stuff! Stressful! It wont be to bad though just some what time consuming. I'll try to get to the library tomorrow to scan a picture for tomorrow, because the library has way better scanners than I do. Hopefully, my pictures will be more clean and look more like drawings next time I post.

Thanks for reading, or not,

Kyle

A newer drawing. I did this one during Des 202,

instead of working on my project. I should probably be working on that now... I'll get on that.

Talk to you later

Kyle

I guess what I have decided to do with this is post one drawing a week, at the least. I will try and post more like 2 or 3 or maybe even one a day, but my goal is, at least, one a week. Well this is an older one but it's a drawing so... yeah...

My best friends have started blogging now. One writes about his views on life, God, coffee, and the other things he finds important. My other friend is a photographer. He has decided that he will take a photograph a day and write about it on his blog. He is doing it to get better at composing, and just better at photography. That is kind of what I want to do but I'm not a photographer and I don't think I could come up with an original sketch everyday, or at least not a good one. Maybe I need to do that anyway, maybe even if it's just a scribble it will help me get somewhat better.

On another note, REACH comes out in 9 days!!! I cannot wait to play it. I can't even describe how excited I am.

Haven't posted in a really long time. Wish I had something that I could constantly post about. I've been working on some art stuff. Mainly one painting and drawing in my sketchbooks. The other week I bought a sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project from the Brooklyn Art Library. You fill the sketchbook and then send it back to the art library. Then they send all the sketchbooks on tour around the US. Then it goes back to the library where anyone can check it out and look through it. So, maybe I will start posting pics of my sketches from it.

I have also been working on digital paintings in Photoshop. I have mainly been doing landscapes with mountains because they are probably the easiest and most popular ones. so my next post might have one of those.

Talk to you another day

Kyle