Quick spongebob sketch before bed

That second one might just be the single greatest facial expression in the history of all time. I think I'm going to devote more time to sketching the facial expressions of animated characters. Why is it that 3D animated characters never have this kind of range?

Damned Hay fever

Ok so every time, without fail, at the changing of the seasons I will get a cold. Usually mild in its intensity but it does wreak havoc with my ability to paint late into the evening. So I'm going to bed. These are, in order from top to bottom, a painting I was working on for japanese tsunami relief but I have discarded as it's no longer doing anything for me. Next is one of my fathers least successful parenting props, the happy birthday monster, I like that sketch because the kid in it (me) is so miserable that he has no arms and last is a quick sketch of my back with a fairly accurate representation of the worlds largest hair growing out of it. It's not all bad, if I moose it up good and lie in the grass I can pick up the local police radio.

More Ed, cos you asked for it.

It's coming, the likeness is there, it's just... Lurking. You know that movie he was in where he had the multiple personality disorder and even though nothing in his face would change, he'd look up and you'd see that everything had changed and that's about the time he'd grow to about 12 feet tall and turn green. You know the film I'm talking about right?
I would stay up and work on this some more but I've been painting a thing for tsunami relief all day and my eyes are bloodshot and I have the mother of all headaches so I'm calling it quits early and going to read my book and sleep. Terry Pratchett awaits.

Edward Norton

Just a quick sketch while I should be doing something else. This is I think the third sketch I did of big ed. I seem to remember the likeness being stronger when I started. Now I'm not so sure. I can turn this into a fairly solid painting but it'll have to be later. I've looked at it too long so I'm not really sure what I'm looking at any more.

The Classic Dunedin Summer

This is a self descriptive portrait of me painting this morning. Fully clothed, long johns, blanket, hat and fingerless gloves, all tucked up in front of the computer with my tablet concealed beneath my duvet to keep the heat in.
Just like being in Dunedin.
I don't miss it.
I don't care how much circadian rhythm costs. I'm not going through another Dunedin winter without a fight. Or maybe without a heater.

Sneak preview

 

So the top image with the mice is a sneak preview of something I'm working on. But its a secret. Even I don't know what it's about. I did. Or at least I thought I did. I started off with a definite plan in mind but then these mice appeared out of nowhere. I think its cos my cat had a mouse bailed up outside this afternoon. I think it might have been one of the noisy bastards that lives in my ceiling. She must have given him a bit of a seeing to because all's quiet up there tonight. Strange though, firstly I thought they were rats, secondly it sounded like there was a small army of them up there. Whatever, I shall remember that mouse forever by immortalizing him and his family on the end of a bass.
The other two are value block ins from sketches from last night. I'm not sure if I was tired or what but when I left the Jemaine sketch last night I remember feeling kind of happy with it. When I woke up this morning... Not so much. I was hoping that adding some value to it might kind of sort out a few issues but it still feels weird. Looking at it now, it's the eyes, and that far eyebrow's a bit wonky. But yeah, this is what happens when I work from a lousy reference photo.
Actually it might be the chin. Yeah, it is. The rest of the face is going one way and the chin is pointing in the opposite direction. Oh well, this is why I get up in the morning so I can't really complain. Actually I can, but my eye is leaking like niagara which usually means its time to give it a rest for the evening. Woo hooo!!! Sleep!!

Too far?

I don't know, it's late. I mean it still looks like him so it hasn't been pushed too far I guess. But it's kind of lost the humour a little. His lips are big but they aren't that thick. It's kind of starting to remind me of that singing creature in return of the jedi.
I don't think I'll pursue this any further. I may paint one of the other ones or I might switch reference tomorrow. My iPod just died so that's it for sketching tonight. Still, tomorrow's another day right?