HI! I'm Alex Smith,I'm a 28 year old illustrator, and this is my sketch blog. I started Sketch Party 2000 in April of 2007 with no real goals in mind. Soon after, it evolved into a daily ritual. I posted a sketch, photo, film, or some other piece of my art every day for a year. Somewhere in the middle of that year I went back to school, and if you start at the beginning and move toward the current entries you should be able to see that I paid attention in class. I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoy posting them, don't let this be your last visit. Updated Monday, Wednesday and Friday (and any other time I feel like it).

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Entry 132: Angry Colored Penguin


colored the penguin, I think I might work on it some more, it's not quite right yet...

Entry 131: Angry Penguins


This is a design for animated character based on my High School art teacher, Bruce Walls. He's got a thing for penguins. I think it turned out pretty damn great :)

Friday, September 28, 2007

Entry 130: Speaker for the Dead


these are both Ender Wiggin from Orson Scott Card's novels. the shorter one is the Ender's Game age level, probably ten or eleven years old, and the sad eyed older one is from Speaker for the Dead, about 35 years old. I had a very distinct idea in my head for both of these and I think I came really really close to getting it down on paper.

Entry 128: Girls of Gotham



since I didn't technically do a sketch yesterday, I did two for today, and I'm somehow a day ahead of myself too, aren't I? its been a rough week people.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Entry 128:


I was gonna do a funny ninja drawing today, and then my buddy Sean gave me this and I had to post it. I kid you not, this is a real magazine....outstanding. Perfect for a Ninja Thursday :)

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Monday, September 24, 2007

Entry 126: fixin' it up


Fixed her up some, I think she looks much better, even though this version isn't quite finished.

PS-sorry this was late but I'm a silly Halo fan and got too wrapped up in the midnight release to post this on time :)

Entry 125: powergirl


power-girl! woo! I'm going to work on this a little more I think...

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Entry 124: Part III


Not sure how long I'll keep with this, but here is a third installment for ya.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Entry 123: Friday Flower Power


Sunday is Friday and Friday is Sunday, but just this week. So there will be a Sultry Sunday Siren this week and today is Friday Photo Lunch. I really liked how this photo turned out and couldn't wait to post it, I took it with my spankin' new Nikon D40. If you're interested I've actually got a daily photo blog going over here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexsmithphoto

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Entry 122: Hot Ninja


I don't think I really have to say anything here.

Entry 121: Flarf.


heh. At least I drew something. Don't be hatin.'

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Entry 120: Zombie Replay



I hated this original zombie drawing from a while ago, so I re-did it today. I think I could still draw it again, I want to draw better zombies than this, lol.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Entry 119: Kyle


Kyle was here! So I drew him for today :)

Entry 118: Mikey B, Colored up


Colored this tonight, this is kind of the quick fix style of digital coloring, which is mostly dodging and burning, no real secondary light sources or colored hihglights, looks pretty good though for what it is :)

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Entry 117: Sequential Saturday, continued.


this is continued from last week's sequential saturday, I might actually develop this into a web comic eventually.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Entry 116: Friday on time


Black Canary, this was a fun one to draw. I was kinda trying something new and I think it could go somewhere with a little development. :)

Entry 115: Ninja Thursday on Friday


delay of game. I was dead when I got home last night, after a 14 hour day so I went to bed instead of posting this on time. so, I have officially missed a deadline, but I haven't missed a post since I got serious about this thing, thanks for your letters, e-mails, prayers and concern :)

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Entry 114: Darkwing Duck


When theres trouble you call D.W. damn right you do. I'm gonna have to draw Darkwing some more, I miss this character.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Entry 113: Batman Replay



Today's Tuesday Replay is a Batman redesign I did about 6 years ago at the prompting of my friend Stan who wanted to see me redesign a bunch of characters. My basic idea here was that Batman had less money so his costume is a little more realistic looking and his weapons are a little less technology heavy.

Entry 112: Hornswoggle


Misc. Monday strikes again. Tonight I was watching wrasslin' and this guy, who's a dwarf wrestler was revealed to be the bastard son of Vince McMahon. I laughed quite hard.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Entry 111: Sunday Digital Showdown


Sundays are for digital art. anything done digitally, photos, web design, logos, or just colored drawings.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Entry 110: Sequential Saturdays


Every Saturday, I plan on doing a piece of sequential art. Probably mostly comic strips like this one, but I hope to do some comic book pages and a few short animations as well.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Entry 109: Friday Femme Fatale


Friday night is lady's night ;)

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Entry 108: Ninja Thursday


Ninja Thursday has been around for a while. I'm not sure if you know this, but I invented it like 7 years ago to spice up the work week. It's exactly what it sounds like :)

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Entry 107: Funny Thing About Wednesday


Wednesday is for the funny. Expect to see cartoons, short comics or any other kind of light or comedic artwork.
this piece is based on an idea for a comic-strip that I had where a 20 something slacker gets marooned on a small island in the pacific. He's constantly trying to find ways to escape and living this rough terrible life, but all the while the natives are living almost like a Hawaiian resort or something. They are constantly talking about him in their native language and wondering why he's trying to rub two sticks together when they all just carry matches.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Entry 106: Tuesday Replay



Tuesday Replays will be for re-drawing old pics (mine or other artist's) that I think I can improve upon. Today's is a grim reaper sketch from 1996, the new version drawn by hand and colored in photoshop in about an hour.

Monday, September 3, 2007

Entry 105: Miscellaneous Monday



Miscellaneous Mondays! every Monday from now on, I'll just draw the first thing that pops into my head when I sit down and that'll be the Monday party scene. From now on every day has a theme, stay tuned this week to find out what they are :)

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Entry 104: Inks finished


Finished the inks on this page, I'll post the next page as soon as I start working on it, this turned out pretty good in the end, but damn is it hard to ink someone else's stuff. The worst part is trying to figure out why each line is there and how much improvement you should add when you see the need, all in all a very educational experience.

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Entry 103: Ender Wiggum


I recently read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, and then tonight I watched The Simpsons Movie, and this popped in to my head, I think it's funny as hell. If you haven't read Ender's game, its not that funny,but just trust me "Ender Wiggum" is hilarious.