Quick still life contour line drawing

Did a bunch of my daily illustration tonight but I wanted to do a quick observational sketch. Pulled this picture of a wrench off line and drew it quick before calling it a night.

End of my Digital Darkroom Class

It is the end of the semester and I wanted to share what I did in my Digital Darkroom class. I am by no means a photographer but this class was pretty fun and gave me a chance to learn Adobe Lightroom. I would have been able to get some better pictures if I had a better camera and not such a hectic schedule but these are what I could come up with, with what I have. Hope you enjoy it :-)

Another Repeat Pattern Swatch

I've been pretty busy lately and haven't had much time to do much of anything extra. For awhile now I have really been wanting to make another repeat pattern swatch in illustrator. I didn't know what kinda pattern I'd make though. But while in my tired and delirious state of mind tonight my new child was babbling and making faces at me and an idea for a new repeat pattern came to me. So I decided I would make this design before going to bed. Hope you like it.

A repeat pattern swatch is basically a pattern that repeats seamlessly with itself and can be used as a fill color.  They are really fun to make. Ill probably make a bunch more in the future. 

My first repeat pattern I posted earlier this year.
http://micahrauch.blogspot.com/2011/08/recent-events.html

The new Sketchy Pencil website

So I remade my sketchypencil website. Was pretty excited about getting it up, although it does have some kinks yet to work out such as the email form not working yet. It feels like a big improvement from the old site. Right now I am looking for input on it, critiques, pointers, or just things to bring to my attention. So feel free to stop by and check it out.

It can be found at
www.sketchypencil.com

Current project

So I had this drawing kinda sorta ruffed out on my table for almost the last half a year and the other night I just decided to pick it up again. Was in the mood to just zone out, listen to music and have fun. Before I knew it it was 3 in the morning. Now hopefully it wont sit there for another half a year before I figure out how Im going to finish it. No real title on it just something I was doing for fun.

Sketch Up

I seen some really cool things done with Sketch Up so I've been playing with it a little bit now and again. The main reason that I am interested in it though is for digital painting. You can use it by making rough models and then moving the camera in any angle you want then save it as a image that you can bring into say photoshop where you can paint over top of it. Or just use it as a cool reference for all those hard angles that might be giving me a tough time imagining how they look. heres a building I made

Deviantart Account

So I haven't been getting my artistic groove on to much lately due to a hectic schedule in life ATM but the other day I did put a bunch of my Daily doodles from my other blog up on my Deviantart account and have been getting quite a few people checking them out. So if your interested in checking out my Deviantart account you can find it at

http://ratula.deviantart.com/


Im looking forward to getting this school year over with and hopefully somehow start consolidating some of my time so I can start working on really growing and developing my art skills as well as trying out a few projects that I have been wanting to do for some time now.

 In other news though I did find a new website that is awesome and if your interested in Digital Painting I would highly recommend checking it out. You can find the site here

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/

Also one of the artist that I have been following lately is

Noah Bradley, Very cool landscapes jealous of his mad skills so go check him out to if you have some time. Hes at.

http://www.noahbradley.com/

Till next time...

Laters

Making Thumbnails

Been learning the power of actions and making thumbnails and a thumbnail library. Did these this morning and was pretty pleased with myself. felt like I came up with some good concepts.

Recent Events

Been pretty crazy here lately with my wife and I having our new baby, getting ready for school to start up again, and Guards Drill stuff. So my drawing has kinda taken a little dip at the moment. Not much new other then Ive been playing a little bit with making repeating pattern swatches in Adobe illustrator. This is one is the first one that ive completed so far. Think ill make some more before moving on to something else.

Package design

This last weekend I woke up and just felt like making something but I didn't know what. But then I remembered this simple but fun idea a friend and I were talking about a month ago or so. He makes jewelry and has the Name "Undead Adornments" so i thought it would be really fun to come up with jewelry boxes shaped like coffins.  And this is what I decided on making. After whipping up some blue prints in adobe illustrator I printed some out and assembled a box. after making some notes i made some adjustments and reprinted another template out. This still isnt my final piece that I want to leave it at though... I would like to find some specialty paper that I can make the outside of the boxes shiny black and the inside a fake red felt paper.

Vector Art finsihed

So here is the finished piece that I have been working on lately. I just wanted to make a nice fun vector art piece that I may sell some prints of. Im not sure the price or size yet but im thinking maybe somewhere between 30-40 dollars for a 13 x 17 piece. so we'll see. I want to see what it looks like all printed out first.

Vector Art

Been working on this Vector art piece. Its not done yet but this is what I have so far. I am thinking of possibly making some prints to sell once its done...so we'll see what comes of this.

quick hands study

this is just a little hand gesture study i did tonight while watching tv.