Lost Bounce!

Mike The Knight warm up doodle. Done this morning, I had started some of the inks for the boards but felt things were a bit flat so decided to have a little doodle, which acted like rotating a crank-handle! Now I'm back into the inks with a little more bounce in the lines.

When working I can often feel like I'm just going through the motions and as soon as I recognise that I have to re-engage as a loss of connection to the work is a loss of intimacy, which shows in the work. That's why sometimes I feel I really -have- to take a step backwards in order to get further forward.

Saturday's Warm-up Challenge.

Draw a baby version of a DC character or a version that is cutesy enough to be Baby-friendly ;)

Warm-up, Cool-down!

I don't do this every day but some day's I need to get my eye in or, as in this case, I feel they day has been hard work and have been struggling to hit my rythim. On those days I like to do a few observational doodles to garner a bit of fun and flamboyance to the line.
Today I spent a good deal of the day looking at my Photoshop Actions and then when I tried to wrap my head around some boarding it just wasn't working for me. So I kept plugging away until I was pretty happy but it felt like walking into a head on gale. So as a Cool-down I jammed these pieces together.
It is pretty important, to me at least, to keep it fun, particularly on the really tough days!