Breakfast

I've found that the Internet not only has a wealth of information for artists, but also provides quite a lot of inspiration. For instance, the weekend drawing event has provided me with great reference photos to draw or paint. That is usually the only one that I participate in these days. But there are several others that I could choose from if I felt like incorporating them into my drawing routine. For instance, Illustration Friday publishes a topic every Friday. I subscribe to their newsletter, but I haven't participated before. This past Friday, their topic was "breakfast," so this morning (Monday), after breakfast, I was looking for something to spark my imagination and I thought of "breakfast" and drew this little guy. I had oatmeal this morning and so did he. The problem with this latest sketch pad of mine, even though I like its surface for drawing very much, it scans crappily (yes, I know that's not really a word). It's very annoying that scans come out so much lighter than the drawing and even when I mess around with the image on photoshop, I can't recover any of the mid tones, so the drawings lose all their detail. I'm fairly detail oriented in my drawings, so this is always a source of frustration for me as all of my scans from any surface, leave out a lot of the shading detail. But this surface is particularly bad. I'm sure there are much better scanners out there, but for now, I'm stuck with this one. Anyway, this guy's scan was so light that I darkened him drastically and he is darker than he is in real life. He also looks like he has no mid-tones, but this will have to just do as I have to get my butt up from the couch and exercise and, therefore, have no more time to mess with him.

In other quick news, I gave Phoebe a new box last night and she has been living in it ever since then. I can just pick her up and carry her around in the box and set her down on cupboards, shelves, dressers, etc. and she just stays.