Daily drawing of rose-ringed parakeets.
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Clemson Football Tiger
Daily drawing of the Clemson Tiger for college football Saturday.
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Art Carney
Daily Drawings on Facebook
Last week, I started drawing each morning after breakfast as a way to get into the good habit of creating art each day. Here’s my tenth daily drawing. We’ll see how long I can keep this going. 😉
You can find all of my daily drawings on my new Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/dantabata.artwork
I’m also planning to cross-post most of my website/blog items on Facebook, so if you’d like to keep up with what I’m doing, my Facebook Page is a convenient way to do so.
Sunscreen
On a sunny day, it’s nice to have friends in high places!
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High-Contrast Portrait
In the past month, something has “clicked” for me with my drawings in Illustrator. I’m not sure why it took this long, but I’ve finally graduated from visualizing my drawings primarily as contours/outlines (think of the black outline around most comic and cartoon art), and have shifted to looking at the shapes and contrasts between light and shadow.
This portrait of my wife is based on a photo from our 2014 trip to Toronto. Drawing faces is a big challenge for me (need to spend more time with the sketchbook), but I’m pleased with the way my first Illustrator portrait turned out.
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Regal Tuxedo Kitty
Our now departed Kordell Kitty (2014) was a handsome cat. He had tuxedo markings, which brought to mind high social standing, secret agent espionage and royalty. What a nice way to remember him.
In truth, Kordell was not a cat about town. He rarely left the house and was scared of his own shadow. Here’s the source photo for Kordell’s portrait. I think he’d just woken up from a nap, so he looks pretty alert for a cat who spent most of the day in a “coma.”
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Breakaway
Even nature needs a vacation!
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The Lighthouse Path
In June 2014, my wife and I visited San Juan Island, Washington. What a beautiful place! I’ve tried to capture the amazing lighting across the landscape in this digital painting of our hike to the Cattle Point Lighthouse.
Penguin Pillow
Now that hockey season is over, penguin pillow can finally put his scarf away for the summer.
NOTE: This paper and pencil drawing was scanned as a 600 dpi TIFF and then processed using Photoshop. The information in the tutorial “Quick Tip: Clean Up Your Traditional Drawings in Photoshop” was essential to achieve attractive Photoshop clean up results. In the past, I primarily used Levels to adjust the tonal range, but after trying this tutorial I found better results by using Curves (at least with this drawing).