This Month's Theme: Rotting Corpses

Here's my submission

Ora-gammy (Emphasis on the "am")

What Heavy Rain fails to mention is that origami is frustrating enough to drive one to kill. More on this later.

I'm deviating from this month's theme because a) it's not great, and b) I made some stuff for a project at work and wanted to share. Hence: the West End Mammal Department's animals in origami.

First up, our Asian representative, a Bactrian camel. Okay so technically this figure only has one hump and therefore is NOT a Bactrian camel but hey.










Next, a zebra! (Grant's or Grevy's, your choice.) This was actually a horse diagram - thank goodness for zebra-print paper.










Again making use of printed paper, a sure crowd-pleaser, the giraffe. This model isn't very much taller than the zebra one, so we'll just call him a calf.













Now we get to the tough stuff (this is where the "origami can cause you to want to murder someone" comes into play). This ostrich took me, no joke, three hours to do. Technically I made three ostriches, and each took about an hour, but I missed a critical step the first two tries and they did not come out looking anything like ostriches. Apparently paper ostriches are as temperamental as real ones (seriously, ours is a brat).








This last one is my favorite: the enigmatic aardvark! My lead keeper said it would be cuter if it had a tongue, so I added a tongue. D'aw =)

Mac+Mur

This is the just the drawing from the dry erase board. I redid it in Photoshop and added a filter to stylize it.

And the theme is...

Dual theme:

Cats

AND/OR

McDonald's mascots (The Later Years)


We got something for everyone in this theme. Get to it.

New Theme!

Post suggestions.

Saloon Shootout

This was my idea when I first thought about the wild west theme. Shit gets crazy at saloons.

Another DoodleBuddy masterpiece brought to you by Cassi

I really like this DoodleBuddy app.
This is a cowboy sheriff giraffe in the desert with cacti and a tumbleweed:

Cactus

Origami cactus in a pot:

Goldrush

I said I would only do one, but I was bored today so drew this comic. I'm still workin on another one which I still have to color. BTW Johnathan, your CD for the music club is great to listen to while drawing wild west stuff.

Buffalo Bill

I wanted to make something about Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show because I'm reading Devil in the White City right now. Its about the Worlds Fair in Chicago and Buffalo Bill Cody's show was one of the most popular attractions. I thought this would be perfect for the wild west theme. I can't really draw, so I thought I'd make a sign for it. ...also, I was going to make it look cooler in paint or photoshop, but that's even worse then my drawing skills. :) Enjoy! I'll bake something relevant next time...and maybe bring it during a Lost Tuesday or something.

Shootout at High Noon

I thought I would class it up this month. I wrote a rough sketch on a post-it. Then I used Pixlr.com to draw on top of it and really smooth those rough edges. I am VERY proud of my final result. I really learned alot about color balance and composition. Tell me what you think!

THEME FOR MARCH: THE WILD WEST

Memories, sweet memories

February Submissions from Brian Lohman on Vimeo.

New Theme

So I'm open to suggestions about a new theme. Post them here! If nobody posts then I'll just pick my own in a few days.

Ben Linus

Sketch of this creepy dude.

Lost Origami

So my idea was to make a bunch of Lost-related origami animals! I was going to make a polar bear and Vincent, and I was so excited! This was a great idea, in theory, but in reality, not so much. As it turns out, I am not very good at origami, and polar bears are really hard to make. So here are some sorta Lost-related animals instead.






A crab. They're on an island, there's gotta be crabs somewhere, right?












The rabbit in the Orchid Orientation video.











This is the shark with the Dharma logo on its tail from the season 2 episode "Adrift." (Ezra James Sharkington, for those of you who listen to Damon and Carlton's podcasts.)

This guy was trying so hard to be a shark, he really was.










A wild boar.

Smoke Doodle

This is horrible quality because I made it on my phone using an app called "DoodleBuddy." But I wanted to contribute, so here you go. It is the smoke monster chasing someone who is scared and yelling "AAH!"

Smoke Monster

He was just waving! He didn't know what would happen :(

Locke drawing

Jacob

I made this while in college. It is what I envisioned Jacob would look like... man was I far off.

...I promise future contributions will be more worthy than this ridiculousness.

Leibham Out!

Smoke Monster

I made this while I should have been working. I attached it to my monitor to illustrate this fact.

LOST THEME

Hey Art Bloggers. Do you like the show Lost? Yeah you do because I know all of you, there's only 3 of you reading this (maybe 2). The TV show LOST will be a running theme for this month.

Here's some ideas to get you started:

- Hurley fan art
- Origami Polar Bear
- Ben + Jacob fanfiction
- A diorama of The Temple

Let's contribute!!!

Medic finished

Finally finished coloring this

More Origami

Four new origamis for your viewing pleasure!






First, a ladybug. I'm not too crazy about the 2D nature of this one. They can't all be winners.











Up next, a pelican.












And then, an owl. He doesn't stay upright and it makes me sad. Plus he's kind of got a lazy eye. Or two. Other than that he's cool.












And finally, a mouse. Those ears were so hard!

Bob Loblaw's Art Blog?

Bri told me to post my origami, so here I am, posting my origami.



Dog and Peacock, front.













Dog and Peacock, having a staring contest. Who will win?!

Origami Fox

Drawing an origami fox that Al made. It was good practice trying to draw straight lines. My trick is to zoom out really far on the canvas and that way I can get a really short stroke. Then I zoom in and clean up any curves.

Drawing:

Original:

New Medic drawing (In progress)

Wasn't happy with the last medic I drew, so I'm drawing a new one (sans hat).

Spray Bottle Sketch

Made a sketch of one of my gestures. The head is a little out of proportion to the rest of the bottle. Tried the cross hatch shading this time.

More gesture drawings

Early morning gesture drawings. I only spent about 30 sec. on each one, you're not supposed to spend more than that really. Just getting the shape and flow down.

Mug sketch

Here's the finished mug sketch. I used my pencil to figure out the proportions and angles. The shading wasn't great, but that's for another lesson. The hardest part about this was getting the handle in proportion to the rest.

Blind Contour

To sharpen hand eye coordination, you're supposed to try to draw (without lifting your pencil) a mug while only looking at the contours of the mug. This is called a blind contour. I did this by turning off my monitor and staring at the mug only. When I turned my monitor on this is what I found. Looks terrible.

Gesture Drawing

I've started doing some drawing tutorials from the SA Forums so now I'm going to be posting a bunch of boring stuff. But I think it's cool and I need the practice so I'm gonna post it here. The first thing is a gesture drawing of a mug, which should be really loose and fluid and meant to be a warm up.

Drawing steps

Sniper finished

Work in Progress 3 - Now in Color

Colored. Needs shading and a background.

Work in Progress 2

Outline is done, need to color and add background.

Work in Progress - Sniper w/ Professional Panama

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