FIELD SKETCHES: Disneyland

Here's a new batch of sketches from Disneyland.  Love that place! :)  I focused on one area, but tried different approaches and materials.  If you become comfortable in a particular style or technique and keep doing the same stuff, at some point the learning stops.  It's like going to the gym and doing the same exercise with the same weights all the time, after a while you're not going to get stronger unless you do something different like increase your weights, or better yet, do an entirely different exercise you've never done before!  I try to mix things up so my art brain is always challenged.

The first image was done with a black prismacolor pencil as a way to study value and practice rendering.  Some of the details in the buildings really caught my eye so in the line drawing above, I focused on the details and design work.  In the sketch below, I focused more on the contrast of light and dark, along with shapes they formed.

Many of my field sketches aren't very large.  The biggest ones are roughly 5"x7" and can go as small as 2"x3".  You get more drawing done if you keep them small. ;)

FIELD SKETCHES: Disneyland

A bunch of field sketches at Disneyland over the past 3 months.  Trying different approaches with each sketch by using different rendering techniques, drawing materials, etc.  Above are a few composition studies from Cars Land.  See if you can spot the locations of the sketches below. :)

The image above was done with watercolor crayons on black paper.  Prismacolor pencils works too.  I use white oil pastels for some of the brighter highlights.  Stay tuned for more updates!  :)

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FIELD SKETCHES

Life gets busy but I still try to find time to draw outside work.  Above is a sketch I did a few weeks ago while getting an oil change.  This particular building is an old but still functioning fire station right next to the car shop.

These two sketches were done during two separate lunch breaks at Old Town Irvine.  The large building above was used to store beans and grain during the early 20th century.  Today it's being used for commercial office space.  On that same lot were a few old craftsman style houses left standing which are no longer residential but also used for business purposes.  The house I sketched is being used as a dentist office.  While sketching, I tried to capture the way it may have looked like many moons ago.  That's what's cool about drawing, you can edit out or edit in whatever you like. :)

All images ©Jimmy Lo

WARLORDS OF DRAENOR: Arakkoa

More Arakkoa concepts!  We were lucky to have Armand Serrano do some freelance work for us.  He did an amazing piece which you can find on the Warlords page.  Below are concepts I did for Arakkoa Spires Dungeon using Armand's concept as the initial inspiration.  It was a fun collaboration!
 

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