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).

Monday, March 31, 2008

Entry 315: The Beach is Like Santa


My niece cracks me up. She was not amused by the dunes.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Entry 314: Prismacolor Study 8

this is like an air nozzle thing for airbrush purposes, we have two at every table in the classroom

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Friday, March 28, 2008

Entry 312: License to Drive

This is a damned riot and you know it, lol

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Entry 310: Prismacolor Study 5


yeah, my cell phone made it into the mix sadly.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Monday, March 24, 2008

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Entry 306: Prismacolor study 1


Its part of an art supply box :P

Friday, March 21, 2008

Entry 305: Russ Prismacolor


I'm working with prismacolor alot again so expect a few random color pencil doodles coming up :)

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Entry 304: A Conch Shell

drawn with a freshly cut twig and black permanent ink.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Entry 303: Island Dave strip 2


The second completed strip

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Entry 302: Island Dave Strip 1


The full first strip for your viewing enjoyment :)

Monday, March 17, 2008

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Entry 300!!!!!!

Interrupting the Comic strips for a day, I couldn't let Entry 300 go by without posting this. It's based on a photo-shop that someone else created that I thought needed a little more pizzaz and then I tweaked it a little more for today's entry. If you'd like a wallpaper version of this piece let me know and it can easily be arranged.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Entry 299: Island Dave Panel 5

One more to go, and then I'll post the finished strips :)

Friday, March 14, 2008

Entry 298: Island Dave panel 4

the First panel of the second strip, chugging right along. These are coming out pretty damn nice :)

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Entry 295: Island dave panel 1


I'm redoing my first two Island Dave strips with Dr. Martens for my illustration class so one panel at a time here they come :)

Monday, March 10, 2008

Entry 294: Wizard interior spread final


this is my design for the interior spread, I think it came out pretty awesome. I tried to sort of tie the colors together with the cover just for presentation unity. enjoy.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Entry 293: Wizard cover final


Hi there people! this is the final design for my magazine cover project and also the first step in catching back up on the sketch blog after my surgery. I'll slowly be posting multiple sketches over the next few days as I recover so keep an eye out :)

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Friday, March 7, 2008

Entry 291: The Gentleman


This is my first finished drawing using Dr. Martens dyes. I really like how they work and I can see that with practice and effort I'll be able to do some really effective coloring with them.
He's not anyone in particular, but I had characters like Bill Sykes from Oliver Twist and Neil Gaimans' Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandermaar from Neverwhere in mind.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Entry 290: Wizard cover Mock-Up


My first Design for the magazine project I'm doing

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Entry 289: Wizard logo Thumbnails


This is another project I'm working on for school. I have to do a magazine cover and two-page spread, and I have to re-design the logo. These are my thumbnails for a re-design for Wizard magazine :)

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Entry 288: Fishie


my favorite out of these :)

Monday, March 3, 2008

Entry 287: two-face


two-face, I likes it even though these are quick roughs I'm enjoying them.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Entry 286: Venom


I had to draw venom on tis one. I mean c'mon its a big black square and I had a white colored pencil.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Entry 285: Doc Marten's Dyes


This how yesterday's and the coming pieces started. I'm learning to play with Dr. Ph. Marten's water color dyes and drawing on top with prisma-color :)