House Girl Sketch

Click for big!A quick sketch- the 17 year old girl from the last episode of House - I really liked her sweater, just had to pause and draw it!

Belle of the Ball - Friendly Reminder

Here's a friendly reminder to keep up with Daniel Solis on Flickr to see Belle of the Ball developed. My drawings are beginning to show up on cards - neat!

Paint Party - Surreal Zebra

My friends and I like to use "Paint Parties" as an excuse to get together sometimes. We break out a bunch of small canvases and paints and do whatever comes to mind. This is one of those paintings, I thought it was particularly interesting. Acrylics and Sharpie, with just a little photoshop touch up.

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Portrait - Practice with Inking Hair

Sketch of the day again, this time I used my brush pen to practice the lovely swirling hair of this woman.



Picture originally from ShahStudio's Photostream, special thanks to them. Find the photo at the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shahstudios/280770888/in/faves-25961674@N08/

Pretty Girl in Blue

Playing around with markers and my new brush pen.

Credit to Brent Gambrell for the photograph I used to sketch this from. Thanks Brent, your photography is lovely.
Original Photo Here

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Image via WikipediaSalvador Dali Anyone?

So if anyone here likes Salvador Dali, then you surely know one of his more famous paintings "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening." OK, in case that doesn't ring a bell, this is the painting below:





And this below this text is an image I made entirely using stock photos...



Fun! The woman alone is 9 people stuck together, if I had the time, money and will it'd be cool to shoot the exact photos needed but as it is it's fun to collage.

This was made entirely with free stock images (except for the gun, I ended up needing to photograph that myself.)

Thanks to the following Flickr Common's photographers:
belgianchocolate rich115 S Baker
permanently scatterbrained
babasteve
suneko
kevindooley
claudiogennari
Millicent_Bystander
EuroMagic
Cliff1066
buntalshoot
aliwest44
stickywikit
wolfgang staudt
audreyjm529
John-Morgan
Mara1
ejhogbin
stig nygaard
Xerones
*Micky

Also used:
Wikimedia Commons
MorgueFile
Image*After
stock.xchng
photoXpress

I've branched out into baby hats... Just kidding, I've only made this one... My good friend's lovely daughter Andie is modeling this chic acorn hat I made...



It's crochet, you can probably tell it was the first thing I'd crocheted in months from all the uneven stitching, but it turns out it's just as freaken' cute with this little girl wearing it!

I did a quick SpongeBob sketch to try out my new PITT brush pen for inking. I love the line variation, and it holds up well under long strokes- no problems with bleeding or drying and the flow is great. However I'm going to have to get used to controlling the thing, the slightest shiver in my hand and I got a wobbly line - BUT that's my problem, not the pen's, so I'm going to keep practicing on that. Overall, I'm very satisfied with the pen.

And then I was bored so I colored it...


As always, click for bigger!

Check out my new photos on Flickr, a "Texas X-mas" - CLICK HERE!