Sketch-A-Day -Day 20-

     Day 20 is another limited color palette piece on black paper. I'm still finding my way working on such dark paper, but it does pump the contrast of light and dark. Now, I just need to fine tune the medium tones and I'll be golden. I like the horns growing from our rolly-polly friends head and the goggles (because everything is better with goggles). He's a friendly looking guy with a genuine curiosity about change and personal growth.

-Enjoy-

Daniel DePaolo 

Sketch-A-Day -Day 19-

     Day 19 is another in the series of portly characters toasting to your good health, happiness and prosperity. While it may not be in time to kick off your weekend, I still hope you had a good one. I envision running into this guy in some swank European night club where the techno music is blaring,  you wake up the next morning with a noticeable ringing in your ears, and you sound like Louis Armstrong from shouting all night. To you my friends, enjoy the coming week.

Daniel DePaolo

Sketch-A-Day -Day 18-

     Day 18 is one of my favorites out of the series of sketch cards I've been creating for those who've bought copies of "Dingo and Willy's Donuts". It kinda speaks for itself. Don't we all yearn for that spacesuit we can climb into, and that jet pack we can strap on to fly away into the unknown? I know some days I do.

-Enjoy-

Daniel DePaolo

Sketch-A-Day -Day 17-

     Days 17-20 are late, I know...but I have a great reason for neglecting you diligent watchers. I've been polishing my portfolio and working on an illustration assignment for this weekends Spring SCBWI conference. The piece I prepared for one of the seminars was based around a pre-selected excerpt of text from Snow White. I plan on sharing the process with you here either later today or tomorrow. I hope you'll enjoy it. For now though...Day 17 is an exercise in drawing hats, hummingbirds and orchids. The noodle armed kid with the abnormally large head is just par for the course. More catch up posts coming later today...so for the three or four people out there watching stay tuned and enjoy your weekend.

-Take Care-

Daniel DePaolo

Sketch-A-Day -Day 16-

     Day 16 is another colored pencil original I created for Emerald City Comicon in Seattle at the beginning of March. I drew the piece with nothing more than the intent to create some wild hair . The steam tech drone, ramen, and chopsticks were added merely to make the image a little more random and engaging. This piece sold to an amazingly nice teacher living in the Seattle. She liked the piece because she thought it looked like Einstein...I'm just glad she bought it and liked it...

-Happy Monday-

Daniel DePaolo

Sketch-A-Day -Day 15-

     Day 15 is a few days behind, but I plan on being caught up and on track for next week. This piece was one of a handful of finished works I created to sell at Emerald City Comicon. While I really like the drawing, it has not sold, yet...but you can find it for sale on my Etsy shop. Working with a limited color palette and drawing some of my favorite things, Day 15 is an homage to retro technology, space walkers, and the secret desire of every little boy to have a trusty chimp there for them throughout life. Happy Mother's Day everybody!!

-Enjoy-

Daniel DePaolo

Sketch-A-Day -Day 14-

     Day 14 is a plug-in samurai robot piece, where the buildings populating the background resemble large hair spray or shampoo bottles...As I add more bits and bobs to my robot characters, the more I realize that working at this size (about a 1/4 of a page of an 8 1/2 x 11) can become problematic when trying to emphasis the details.

-Enjoy-

Daniel DePaolo