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).

Friday, February 29, 2008

Entry 284: Leap Day


A little frog for Leap Day, more on this for tomorrow's blog :)

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Entry 283: Power-Girl Costume Design



Power-Girl costume re-design for a draw-off. I didn't change all that much, I just kinda updated it a little, made it look younger :)

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Entry 282: Winter Blossoms


I already have azaleas in my back yard, crazy weather.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Entry 281: The Punisher



The finished piece from yesterday. I wish I had done a little more detail on the gun, but this was a quick finish :)

*EDIT 2-27-08* I playe dwith this a little more, I think it looks much better :)

Monday, February 25, 2008

Entry 280: Underdrawing


Something I'm working on for a Draw-off over at penciljack.com

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Entry 279: Chris


This is Chris, he's a random person in the classroom.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Entry 278: Angus 2


Angus, again. he site across from me so I have to draw him a lot :)

Friday, February 22, 2008

Entry 277: Russ


This is Russ, he looks like doc Ock and he sits next to me in Illustration class :)

Entry 276: Aquaman


here's waht I eventually came up with for Aquaman, I felt rushed and it's not my best re-design ever but here it is none-the-less

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Entry 275:Aquaman Sketches


I'm working on a costume re-design for Aquaman for one of the forums I subscribe to :)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Entry 274: Nature


i drew this with a stick. from a bush. seriously.

Entry 273: Black Mary Edits


I fixed a few things that were buggin' me on this one, the face, the feet and the arms :)

Monday, February 18, 2008

Entry 272: Fixing A Drawing


With the magic of Photo-shop, I can take these doodles and (when I'm finished) drop them in to the existing image to fix it without re-drawing or doing a lot of erasing. Isn't technology fun?

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Entry 271: Prismacolor Practice


working with my pencils a little more for class.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Entry 270: Black Mary


I've been wanting to draw this character since I saw the preview images for DC's Countdown months ago. I think it turned out pretty bad ass, especially since I was really trying some new techniques :)

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Entry 269: Stoopid


I'm redesigning a character I designed for someone when I was in high school and this is what I have so far. Don't steal it, cuz you'll get a nice suing, but enjoy looking :)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Entry 268: Page 3 inked


Page three all inked up :)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Entry 267: A Spell for Chameleon


I've been working on this for about a week now. The project is to re-design a book cover and I chose this because aside form being a guilty pleasure of mine, this book has had the same cover design since 1977. sad. I'm pretty pleased do far :)

Monday, February 11, 2008

Entry 266: Vonnegut (more)


I've worked with the pencils a little more here, and I'm starting to get a better feel for them. Hopefully when I can use more than Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black I'll get even better results :)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Entry 265: Kurt vonnegut Prismacolor


So we have to use prismacolor pencils in my illustration class on our next project and this is my first practice piece. I've never really used them before, and whats more is we were supposed to re-create the CMYK four-color process with this sketch, it needs work, lol.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Entry 264: Charlie



I snapped this today of my dog, Charlie. I've had him for eight years now, and anyone who's met him can tell you that I managed to get the quintessential Charlie photo with this one.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Entry 263: A Fallen Knight


This one is based on a character description given to me by a friend of mine, I'm still working on it but this is the basic idea so far.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Entry 262: Barbarian


Doodling a character design for myself. He smashes things.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Entry 261: Gator Digital Inks


still playing with my Wacom tablet...

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Entry 260: Gandhi, Finally


I finally finished this drawing and turned it in. I think it came out pretty awesome in the end :)

Monday, February 4, 2008

Entry 259: Wacom time!



I got a new toy today: A Wacom graphics tablet :) I tried a little digital inking over my rough pencils, and while it's going to take practice, I'm pretty excited about it it, especially when it comes to digital colors. I also included a nifty photo of it so you can check it out.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Entry 258: Paco grande (Flash Trace)


I'm still Learning flash and this is my first attempt at tracing a character from a drawing into flash format. I'll be working on it some more to be sure.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Entry 257: Best Candidate Ever.



damn right ;)

Entry 256: Don't Dress for Dinner


A poster design idea for the theatre I volunteer at :)