Martin Luther King Jr.

Illustration for "Taking Up the Cross" by Eric Sterbenk

You can read part one on his blog:

http://ericsterbenk.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/taking-up-the-cross/

Drawing Game

     I find that coming up with ideas of things to draw isn't always easy.  Making time to draw isn't always easy either, especially when taking care of kids.  This idea combines fun drawing time and fun kid time.

     I wrote a bunch of adjectives and nouns on little slips of paper and put the adjectives in one bag and the nouns in another.  The adjectives were things like curvy, wide, tangled, small, large, etc, and the nouns were things that could be incorporated into a creature like head, eyes, fins, tail, articles of clothing, etc.  Then we drew random combinations of these words to get ideas for our drawings.  We also added a third bag to the mix with random objects in it that could be included (skateboard, backpack, piece of toast...) 

     This is what my daughter and I came up with.  My words are below my drawing.  Her words were: scraggly mustache, only one eyebrow, green hooves, noodles, roller skates, and clothing.

Mom's Mason Jars

Mason jars in my mother's kitchen.

Game Time

Thomas playing Tetris with his grandmother over the holidays.

Mr. Wendell

Drawing for "Goodbye, Mr. Wendell" by Eric Sterbenk

Read it here:

http://ericsterbenk.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/goodbye-mr-wendell/

Vino Gone-o

Empty bottle of wine drawn earlier this week.

January...

This is the cover of one of my sketchbooks spanning from January 2012 to January 2013.

I managed to finish scanning it before January 2014.

You can view the full sketchbook on my website:
http://www.eobrownart.com/sketchbook-17.html

(More to come before January 2015.)

While You Climb

Illustration for "While You Climb" by Eric Sterbenk

Read it here: http://ericsterbenk.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/while-you-climb/

"My father was a shop teacher."

Drawing for "Teacher" by Eric Sterbenk

Read it here: http://ericsterbenk.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/teacher/

Mischievous Momo

Sketch for "The Great Hamster Escape" by Eric Sterbenk

Read it here: http://ericsterbenk.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/the-great-hamster-escape/

Soccer Practice

Thomas Sitting on the Dock

E. Nesbit

Often when I am looking for an idea of something to draw I will look up famous people born on today's date.  This time instead of looking up birthdays I decided to draw author Edith Nesbit since I had been listening to a lot of her stories.  When I was done I realized that it happened to be her birthday anyway! 

Fort Myers Plantlife

Four Donuts

Woman Drawn with Water Soluble Ink

Crab Cake with Roasted Vegetables

Swimming Lessons

Black Rooster

Hippopotamus

Seagull for summertime

Little Snacks

Drawing Some Arthurs

Mushrooms

Martin Van Buren