A Halloween greeting.  Made in Painter 12.

Happy October!

Tomato Soup

Ever wonder how Andy Warhol came up with his famous idea.  I don't mean the story we all have heard, how he stole the idea from someone else.  I just have this image in my head, of Warhol eating soup, in his pajamas and suddenly . . . a vision.

Painter 12, Wacom Intuos 4

Torctopus

 

Meet the torctopus.  He is a friendly, if swim-challenged, denizen of the deep.  Due to his laziness, he prefers to use his personal underwater scooter to get from lagoon to open ocean.  And who can blame him?

Power

This is an image created to illustrate an abstract concept.  The abstract word: Power.  Get it?

Anyway, wouldn't it be funny if a little muscleman dude popped up in your lightbulb every time you flipped the switch?  Awesome.  Maybe it would play a song too, like ... We Will Rock You.

Reboot

So I originally intended this blog to be a daily sketch blog, even when I first created it back in 2007.  And I was pretty good for a while, and then it became a journal blog and then a rant blog and then it was just sad.  So I deleted it.  Everything.  Finally, a few weeks ago, I felt ready to unearth SomethingLikeArt and start up a daily sketch blog again.  BUT!  I am sketching all the time in my sketchbook and I don't have time to sketch on the iPad right now.  (Because I want to do all the daily sketch blog sketches digitally.)  SO!  This is going to be rebooted as my illustration blog.  I will post a gallery, my contact information and begin having regular posts about my adventures in illustration.  Now, for those who know me, it may seem excessive and a little redundant, because I have about a thousand blogs: Treading Words, Lee On Life, and DawgArt are the only ones semi-regularly updated.  And eventually, I'll stop posting on Lee On Life because it's a school blog and someday I'll be finished with school.  So then it will only be three... ish.

Daily Sketch #14

WIP based on Langston Hughes' "Midnight Dancer"

Wine-maiden

Of the jazz-tuned night,

Lips

Sweet as purple dew,

Breasts

Like the pillows of all sweet dreams,

Who crushed

The grapes of joy

And dripped their juice

On you?

Daily Sketch #11

I said, "What should I draw?"  So Ty ran and got a book of poetry by Emily Dickenson.  Then he read a poem.  I don't remember it, but it had the words death, chrysalis and butterfly.

ArtRage.  On the iPad.  Fingerpainting.

Daily Sketch #10

Another dragon.
ArtRage.  On the iPad.  Fingerpainting.

Daily Sketch #9

Painter 12.  I love this idea, even if the sketch is rough.

Daily Sketch #7

This IS my smile.

Alias Sketchbook Pro.  (This is an old one, but I needed something to post.)

Daily Sketch #6

Alias Sketchbook Pro.

Daily Sketch #5

Painter 12.  Wacom Intuos 4.  Designing with spirals.

Daily Sketch #4

ArtRage.  On the iPad. Fingerpainting!

Daily Sketch #3

ArtRage.  On the iPad.  Fingerpainting!

Daily Sketch #2

ArtRage.  One the iPad.  Fingerpainting.

Daily Sketch #1

Done on the iPad in ArtRage.  Fingerpainting!