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A work in progress - 'Solitude' 2010/2011
I started work on this image back in 2010. It is 8ft across & 5ft high. In these photos I am only working in graphite. Later I will go in with ink and acrylic.

Project by Joe Fenton

Reposted from http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Bpq0Y/www.behance.net/gallery/Solitude-20102011-A-work-in-progress/954142

Good Ideas for Fun

Reposted from TheAccidentalArtist.com

http://www.theaccidentalartist.com/content/drawing/100-creative-drawing-ideas

Even for those who love sketching, there are times when the lack of fresh drawing ideas inhibits the creative process: you can only draw that tree outside your kitchen window so many times. Coming up with new ideas is not that difficult, if you start thinking in categories---and put a twist on each item in your category.

20 Ideas for Drawing People

Draw a person you know well with an out-of-character hair-do, wearing clothes from a previous century, sitting in an oversized or undersized chair or reacting to a winning ticket in the lottery. Draw someone as an infant, a toddler, a teenager, an adult and an old person. Draw someone you see on the street greeting a friend, arguing with a boss or posing for a photo. Draw a couple embracing, arguing, taking a walk or dancing. Draw a doctor consoling a patient, a teacher praising a student or a police officer interrogating a subject. Draw yourself with various facial expressions.

15 Ideas for Drawing Still-Life Pictures

Create an arrangement of books of various sizes and draw it from various angles. Draw a row of books on a bookshelf, or draw a large opened book from several angles. Draw four items from the refrigerator that you have placed on a kitchen chair. Put a few large toys next to a tricycle. Draw three teddy bears lined up on a shelf. Pile empty grocery cartons next to a trash can; then turn over the trash can and do another drawing from that angle. Make a tower of dinner plates alternating with small bowls. Do a drawing of your computer, your iPod or your cell phone, including an unrelated object next to each. Take the coins out of your pocket, spill them onto a tabletop and draw them how they landed. Draw a chess set or game board. Draw some shirts piled into a laundry basket. Sketch toiletries and cosmetics placed in an interesting arrangement. Draw a collection of baseball caps.

16 Ideas for Drawing Animals

Draw your dog (or someone else's) sleeping, sniffing and begging. Sketch a cat ready to pounce; make another drawing when it's curled up in a basket. Draw birds from an Audubon book, or draw pigeons in the park. Go to the zoo to find animal models; draw them separately, from different angles, and juxtaposed next to one another. Dig up some worms to draw. Use a magnifying glass to draw ants you attract to a saucer of honey, and spiders you trap in a jar only long enough to sketch them. Sketch guinea pigs at a pet store. Visit an aquarium and draw the largest fish and the smallest fish you can find. Using a book of dinosaurs, draw dinosaurs next to bridges.

15 Ideas for Drawing Home Interiors

Draw your bed first thing in the morning and then again after you make it. Open your closet and sketch a group of clothes hanging together. Draw your dresser, and then open a drawer and sketch the insides. Draw the stairs from several angles. Draw every door in your house or apartment lined up next to each other. Draw a large appliance, such as the refrigerator or washing machine. Draw the table set for dinner and then again after the meal. Sketch a picture of the pictures on your wall. Draw something you see when you look out the window. Draw something small, such as a keyhole, a doorknob or a cabinet handle. Make a drawing of your bathroom. Lie on your back and draw the light fixtures on the ceiling.

14 Ideas for Drawing Outdoors

In the city: Draw a taxi. Draw the corner of a large building. Draw a traffic light or a stop sign. Draw the exact same scene at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sketch a picture of the streetlights. Draw a storefront. In the country: Draw the side of a barn. Draw a fence with a few fence posts. Draw a patch of weeds. Sketch the window of a country store. Draw a tractor or other piece of farm equipment. Draw a rural mailbox. Draw the view down a dirt road.

20 Ideas for Drawing Outside the Box

Draw an inventive alien. Juxtapose dissimilar objects, such as an orange and a miniature car, and draw them together. Draw your toenails. Draw a machine with an unknown purpose. Sketch a pleasant memory. Illustrate a nightmare. Draw a pile of stuff you'd buy, if you won the lottery. Draw a famous landmark. Draw an imaginary landmark. Make a picture of all the junk food you like. Draw yourself wearing a new outfit you design. Create an incredibly modern-looking car. Draw a scene from history, a movie or a TV show. Sketch some illustrations for your favorite book. Draw an imaginary cartoon character. Draw a famous person from the past. Draw the president of the United States. Draw a box and draw something outside of it.

Yamaha XS 650 Tank Badges

My Dad, Jeff of Saint Motor Company, usually leans toward doing little things that add personalized details to each of the bikes that he builds. For the Yamaha XS650 cafe racer for a client in LA we wanted some custom tank badges. The original badges were plastic with the number 260 on them (from the Benelli/Wards Riverside tanks that he's been favoring lately).

He painted them silver and asked me to draw something classy on them to make them stand out rather than filling in the recess for them on the tank and painting it to match. So here's the newly refinished badges :)

The little piece of paper on the left is the picture that the client had sent us. It worked out pretty well. I made a transfer for it the same as how I've been making the transfers for the watercolor paintings, then inked the drawing using the india ink pens. The badge in the picture above and towards the top had been cleared over using a high gloss lacquer. It grayed out a bit making look like a pencil drawing, which looks kinda cool up close. Almost resembles something that had been carved in stone :)