Happy (belated) St. Paddy's Day

Traditionally, I'm all giddy about chasing after people who are not wearing green and pinch them.

This year, though, I decided to be nice and made little green shamrocks and leprechauns from green construction paper for them to wear.  I made 8 in all, but only about 70% of the people actually wore them, which definitely defeated the original purpose of my little St. Paddy paper accessories.  Though a bit flattering that those who didn't wear them immediately put them away in protective folders and such.  That was cute.

Unfortunately, I didn't take record of any of my little creations....

Sad but it happens. all. the.time.for.me.

Anyway, I made one for myself:

Look at these cutie pies.

Oh?  Want a better view?

Your wish is my command.  Here's a scanned version for your viewing pleausure (of seeing all the mistakes and unerased pencil marks.  It's like a game of Find Waldo!!).

People watching WITH COLOR. Olalala.

I need to practice....coloring, so that is what I'm doing: 

People watching has now become People Stalking

Lately, I've been sneaking around drawing people...to a point that it has become kind of stalker-ish.  So, here are some of my favorite pages from my sketchbook:

Pencil:

For observational sketching of people, I generally sketch in pen for speed but sometimes if I feel like I have the time, I sketch in pencil.  

A coworker. Sometimes he stares intensely at the computer...looking at kittens.
One of the few times someone had stayed still enough that I could try to sketch out the planes of their face. 

Some of my coworkers and some of our costumers.  The girl was at a really good angle for me to draw her without her noticing that I was drawing her.

This girl had a such a great smile and she maintained it for quite a while.

Sharpie:

I don't like the smell of sharpies, but boy oh boy, are they fun to sketch with.  Now I feel like my sketchbook can make someone high from the sharpie smell.

A lovely girl coworker and her lovely smile.  She consciously let me draw her in front of her.

I was bored one day so I drew my dad.

People working hard. Very hard.  Study on, young 'ums.

Ultra fine sharpie is the beast.

It looks like him. Yupe, that's all I really have to say.

Ah~ She's my favorite model.  1.) She's lovely 2.) She stays still 3.) for some reason she's easy to draw 4.) She knows that I creep around drawing people, and I don't think she's creeped out by me...yet.

Pilot Precise V5 and/or Razor point pen:

My usual sketching tool

People from my Archaeology class while they made their final presentations.  Covert People Sketching was tricky because I sat in the front row.

People from my figure drawing class

More people from my figure drawing class. For a class about drawing people...I'm really surprised that no one else was drawing each other

One of my adorable regulars who would watch me draw, rather than ask me math questions.

Frixion Point Pen:
My new favorite sketching toy.

Sketching with Frixion Point Pen makes me feel like a sketching genius because I can erase the guide lines and pretend like I magically whipped out a clean sketch.

Things I draw that is found around work

Sooooo.  It's been a while.   Rather than draw new things, I present you Things I draw at work.

I often  draw really random things and leave them for people or draw signs for people to see, to make things interesting.  These are some of my work found at my workplace.

Things I've drawn for my boss:

I was going for the "Apple for a teacher"-kinda thing but I was too cheap to buy an apple so I disguised an avocado as an apple.  The avocado is no longer, but the shell  is still in existence.

Conventional Zombies are boring.  It's all about the zombie parrots and pug harpies who walk their pets of flying munchkin kitty and flying scotties 

My boss went on a vacation and people kept on asking about her, so I drew this and posted it on her chair.  Miss someone? Draw them.

Signs I drew:

I was hoping to grab people's attention.  I think a creepy girl with crazy eyes, creepy smile and creepily long neck would definitely get people's attention.

...There was more to this sign....It got cut up into pieces and this is the only piece I see around now.  If you look carefully, it's like the Terminator is scanning his ID in.


Random things I drew:

I was bored one day at work and I wanted to draw an epic dragon to protect that spanned across the whole counter.   It didn't even go halfway across before I was, "Ugh, fuckit. Taping paper is so hard."

A random dragon, a random goat, and leaping cat.  I don't even know.

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I don't even know...I guess zombies and spoon-armed...monster?

I....am speechless.  I don't really know anymore.

Whiteboards are fun.  Pet dragons are cool. So are random animals. You cannot convince me otherwise.

Things I've drawn for people:

My coworker as mythical creatures, manticore and the scorpian king.  They didn't accept my gift.

My cute and adorable regular wanted a Donald Duck drawing....so this is what I whipped out as a reward for her hard work.

Things unrelated to Work:

Sometimes I like to personify gift bags and this was one of  those times.
Done with Copic Markers and prismacolor pencils

Selfies....?

I got the trial run of Paint Tool Sai, and I tried to get as much mileage from it as possible...so I painted some selfies.  I am a product of my generation.

Ok the last two I cheated.  I traced it because I just wanted to go straight to painting.

Coffee swag

Lookit, I got coffee swag.  I'm going to make my own good coffee now. 

Hahahaha, my first gif animation!

I haven't updated forever and when I do finally update, it's a choppy animation of me falling asleep.

I sense a tinge of irony