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).

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Entry 573: The Day is Mine, Trebek


I saw this poster for the movie Taken (awesome by the way) and this idea popped into my head, could have been a little more professional looking, but I threw it together and it gets the point across, lol.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Entry 572: The Atom

This one was really a test to see if I could come up with a rough sketching style with my tablet. Its not bad, but I think I could go faster and even rougher :)

Friday, May 22, 2009

Entry 571: Rejected Sketch

I've decided to re-draw an old Pin-up kind of drawing and started roughing it out today, I didn't really think this was much of an improvement over the original so I'm scrapping it.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Entry 570: Dr. Love Shakes a Leg


This is myself and another of Berkeley County Schools' illustrious employees, Chris Mitchell, at the prom breaking it down. She's a riot, and this cracked me up so I dressed it up for my new profile image.

PS- sorry about the incredible lack of updates and the bomb of late updates I just dropped. Thanks for sticking around, Ill try to do better now that I'm finally (after ten stinking years) finished with college.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Entry 568: Matt's Dome


This is Matt, drawn from 5 different angles, 5 minute sketches drawing fast and worrying more about planes, features and light more than likeness.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Entry 567: Drawing the Face



The retreat is all about drawing the face, and this is what I worked on today, both from the same reference, the top is graphite the bottom is conte, both on sketch paper.

Entry 566: Mountains


I really wish I was a good enough photographer to do this justice. The view from the lodge, shot from the hip.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Entry 565: Centipede


I'm on an art retreat this weekend and I shot this on a path down below the studio we're working in, I wish I had a better lens for macro.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Entry 564: Bethlissa


I like how this turned out, its still kind of a quick and dirty illustration, but I dig it.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Entry 563: Bethlissa W.I.P.

Had a chance to work on this a little today :)

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Entry 562: Bethlissa Pencils

Pencil roughs for the new version of this drawing.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Entry 561: Bethlissa rough inked


I went ahead an inked this with my Pitt brush pen, just for the hell of it :)

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Entry 560: Bethlissa rough


Started roughing this out today, but now I'm thinking a different angle would be better. This is another character from my buddy's D&D game, and is in fact the daughter of the other character I drew for him a while back.

Friday, May 1, 2009