The City on the Water- Concept Painting

Awe morning!
Wow feels good NOT waking up at 2:00 am today! haha
It's been crazy here, been raining non-stop for a couple of weeks...
Which i have to say, has put me in a perfect mood for painting. :)
The painting today is one of the first i've done with my new water color set.
I had a lot of fun layering on this one.
This is just a concept painting for a story i'm working on with my brother.
You honestly have no idea how excited i am to show & tell you the story...
Hopefully soon ;)
Well i hope you like the painting,
and i hope you're having a great day!

Gesture Study of the Day

Good morning!
So i definitely messed up big time last night and set my alarm to 1:30 a.m. on accident...
which is bad, i know, but what was worst, an hour later after i went back to bed, I woke up wide awake!
haha yikes~ seriously, so bad, so i just got up and started working...
Somehow i have a feeling i'm going to pass out midday today! haha
But anyway, had an great weekend, my sister & my brother-in-law had a Christmas party on Saturday.
It was awesome seeing them.
Also yesterday, saw Tron with my family!
Movie was great, and Daft Punk & the Art Direction was perfect!

So i've been trying to get better at drawing and painting different gestures and expressions.
The Sketch today was a little study sketch i did this last week.
I really like how it turned out.
It's definitely a rougher sketch but i really like how expressive she is.
I hope you like it too :)
Any of you traveling anywhere for Christmas?

P.S. Just to update you on the print orders. First off, thank you all so much for your support, it's been amazing. My mom has been helping process all the orders and get everything shipped, and so far we have been able to get your prints out the day you ordered them. So, if you're still thinking of getting Christmas prints, the sooner the better. They are all up at http://www.etsy.com/shop/DannyRoberts.


P.S.S. I'm thinking of getting rid of Disqus Comment system and go back to bloggers comment system... Cause people have been having problems with Disqus loading or not showing up.... is it working for you?

Lil Finn - Character Development Sketch

Hey Friends,
So today's painting is the first of hopefully a lot more character Development Sketches.
I've been working developing story ideas and trying to learn how to develop drawn characters.
A little while back i stumbled on to the character model sheets for Pinocchio,
and i was so inspired i though i would make some of my own.

This was my first attempt at developing a character named "Lil Finn".
Though i like how this water color sketch turned out, it's definitely not there yet.
Still trying to get the hang of all this!
But i really hope you like it! :)

Oh lastly, I wrote you all a song this weekend!
I think i will try to upload it for this Inspiration Friday! :)
Hope you're having a great day!
- d

The Runaway Forest Concept Sketch

Well Good morning!
How's the day treating you?
Well T Minus 8 days till my brother and i leave for NYC.
There is still so So much to do... C'est la Vie ;)
So my best friend since like i was in 3rd grade, Benje, arrived here last night.
He has been living in Kenya for the last year or so.
It's been amazing catching up with him.

So growing up, my brother David, Benje, my friend Sean, Ryan, and i have been best friends.
And since we all have moved to different places and we are all doing different things now,
we started a yearly tradition of doing a week (or weekend) vacation to catch up and relax.
So tomorrow i will be leaving for that. Should be so much fun!
I should have tons of pictures from the trip for yea ;)

Ok Now for this sketch...
You know how i've been saying i write music & write stories?
Well i've finally officially started writing my first story book!
My brother and i had a road trip this last weekend and we got rolling on the first book in the series.
The sketch above is one of the first study/concept sketches i've done for the story.
I really hope you like it!

P.S. I'm thinking of posting some excerpts of the story as it is written...
Is that something you would be interested in?

EDIT: Just Realized i left out the newest member to the friends get away, Alice! This is the first trip since Ryan and Alice have been married! woot woot!