Terese Nielsen - Freestyle Sunday

I was attending an expo yesterday and today and my mind was so overstimulated by the end of the day that I seriously had no interest in drawing tonight. The only artistic unwind I could make myself do is muck about with a medium that I don't usually use. I dumped ground up graphite from my technical pencil sharpener, smeared it around and did subtractive highlights with a kneaded eraser. I considered putting a tie on this guy with a bankster logo behind him, but I felt bad disgracing the vulture in this way… so I let him be.

Cynthia Sheppard - Learning to Love Myself

Learning to love myself.

Sad drawing, happy ending. When I was 20, my boyfriend-at-the-time and I did [things] that made us sleep very little. We told ourselves it was because we needed the time to finish our album, that we were valiantly killing ourselves for what we loved. But doing [things] has side effects- you don't eat, you get paranoid, you get fired from your job for being late and/or crazy. You're sad all the time. I remember the distinct moment that I knew things had to change for real: I got on the bathroom scale and I only weighed 89 lbs.

After that moment, I decided it was most important to learn to love myself. With that in mind, I was able to let go of the idea that two people killing themselves for an idea could make a healthy relationship. I moved on to better things.

Sarah Gay - Sunday Funday

I was inspired by the Sartorialist.
I couldn't get enough of this poor little rich girl.

Narciso Espiritu - Freestyle 2 Pre-release

Still working on this one. I was at the day job from 12-7p. Post the finish when it's done!

Chris O'Neill - Hot Dog Buns

A stream of conscious sketchbook page. Trying to think of warm things like Neil Young songs, hot dog buns, and well... buns..

- CHRIS

Kristina Carroll - Venus Study

Watercolor

You can never do too much painting from life. This is a quick study of a tiny Venus statue I have.

Carly Janine Mazur - Klaymen

It's been a crazy past 3 days, with 3 feet of snow, not being able to leave the house, and having a lot of painting to get done. This is Klaymen, the lead character from a favorite game of mine called The Neverhood. This is one of two pieces I'm painting for an upcoming show this weekend involving game art. I'm also doing a piece with Ico and Yorda from, well, ICO!

I will leave you with one of my favorite songs from this game:

Scott Murphy - Freeform Sunday

Here's a dwarf smoking a pipe on this lovely freeform Sunday. 

Scott Brundage- Freeform Sunday

Just seeing what happens with a wandering mind and seeing how much dog anatomy I can fake with two pens and some water.

Oh, and here's a guest contributor, my lovely fiance, Bonnie. She had her own contribution to "A Face Only A Mother Could Love." I thought it an extremely elegant and economic solution.

Boom.

Jeanine Henderson—Free Style Sunday

The last time I talked to my Dad before he passed away, he told me to "look for shooting stars". That's because it was during a meteor shower—but it's always stuck with me as something much more metaphoric. His birthday is this Tuesday, so he's on my mind this week and I decided to use freestyle Sunday to play around with this imagery.

Kate Feirtag- Getting back on the horse

My brain shut off this weekend.  I have no excuse for not drawing and I'm disappointed.  So to get back into this project, I drew another horse. 

Alice Stanne - A Face Only a Mother Could Love

After spending the day shoveling what must have been the entire snowstorm, I passed out before being able to finish yesterdays challenge. This one is just about people who love their pets a little too much, regardless of how ugly those pets are.

Tim Paul - Free Style Sunday

I decided to take last Sunday's post and expand it into a full illustration.

I had a lot of fun working this into a full blown illustration. I'd also like to thank Scott Brundage, Aaron Miller, Marc Scheff, Daniel Nyari and Jess Worby for their valuable feedback while I was working out the details for this. 

Jeffrey Alan Love - Sunday Lunch

One of my favorite things to do is draw in my sketchbook - it's become ingrained that if I go out my sketchbook is coming with me.  One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from Brent Watkinson at The Illustration Academy when he advised everyone to "Draw What You Drink".  It's a great way to make sure you do a little drawing from observation every day.  In the past 5 years I must have drawn thousands of glasses of water, beer, wine, coffee, etc...  It's become meditative for me, an escape into mindless, pure drawing enjoyment.  Here's a page from lunch today.

Marc Scheff - a face only a mother could love

I am currently sitting in upstate New York. No computer. No sketchbook. Just my iPad and adonit jot touch. With -15 minutes left to post I tried a sketch with the app procreate. Maybe only I can love this, but I do see a lot of possibility with this medium.