Some things I drew.

I felt like putting together a post of a week's worth of doodles because why not, right?

This last one is the first sketch I've done for a story setting I came up with.

It's a massive hotel/apartment complex built next to a massive highway. The highway stretches from horizon to horizon in length and width and there is an endless stream of cars at all times of day. The complex is to house the toll booth attendants when they are off duty. Shifts in the toll booth last for weeks because some people have to go miles away to get to their spots on the highway. The building has been built up bigger and bigger over many decades as the toll people have children and travelers move in permanently. I'm imagining the scale of the bathhouse in Spirited away and the junkiness of Tekkonkinkreet. I've found a lot of small stories in this building and a couple very big ones.

Animalia

Here's some sketches from the past couple of days.

The buildings on the right are in South San Francisco, I had about 

twenty minutes to kill, so I sketched those. All of the animals in this post 

are from a local PetSmart. Once again, I had time to kill, so I went inside 

and skulked around the back of the store and drew.

This structure is some sort of old processing plant or something in Petaluma.

The society finch had an awesome hairdo and looked like some kind of

stoner character from the 70's, but I didn't do it justice.

All of the fish were incredible fun to draw, especially the Fancy Guppies.

And i don't know if I've just never watched hamsters before, but those things move so 

absurdly quickly and they don't stay I one place for more than like 30 milliseconds. 

They are the most frustrating animal I've come across to draw.

Creek Sketchventure

I went on a wonderful skechventure yesterday. The creek near my house is on of my favorite places and it was a beautiful day so I went down there to do some sketching. 

This is under the bridge where lots of homeless people live.

I managed to draw this squirrel and this rock before they both ran away.

This rock was basking in the sun. I had to be really quiet so I didn't spook it.

From the mind...

Today I decided it was about time to paint one of the random doodles I'm always doing.

One of the greatest things I discovered about painting over my sketches is that I can fix things

 I don't like in the painting, such as that jacked up eye. This is pretty obvious I guess, but it had never really clicked until now.

This is my first gouache painting of something imaginary, and I'd say I did vaguely well.
My favorite part is the eye.