11/05/07

These are just a few from today(a short drawing day).
This little guy was just my first sketch. A nice way to warm up for the day.



This was a sketch of a British guy. He had a great sense of humor. ...and a great nose!




This is my coworker, Sean Gardner. A great caricature artist and an amazing sculptor. I have a link to his website. By all means, check it out.

11/03/07

This is still a long way from being done, but I've been able to work on it a bit over the past two days. So far, I'm feeling pretty good about it.

11/02/07

This might be a bit of cheating: These sketches are from a short while back(I didn't sketch today...just played Boss).

For the first time in almost a year, I'm working on new studio work. I'm really excited about this, but also feeling rather rusty.

This is of actor John C. Riley. A great actor, and an even better face to work with.
This is my initial pencil sketch, cleaned up in Photoshop just a bit:






This is the color version(very much a work in progress) being created in Corel Painter X. I love this program and indeed all of my studio work is done with Painter.


If you'd like to see more of my work you can check it out at www.dionsocia.homestead.com

10/31/07

These are just a few from today...Very slow day at the park!

WOW,...I have a blog!

I've decided to start this blog as someplace to post my daily drawings. I've been thinking for quite some time now that as an educational pursuit, I'd like to create art at least once a day and post it as a sort of artistic diary. I've thought for months now that I would never find the time to do artwork every day. Today it dawned on me that I actually DO do art every day. Drawing caricatures full time at Busch Gardens in Tampa certainly counts...not sure how I overlooked that.

It's my hope that this forum will push me into developing further as an artist and that I'll be able to get some much needed feedback from other artist friends.
By all means, feel free to leave any and all feedback.

These are a few I've done over the past few days. I'll try my best to get new ones up as consistently as possible.