Nintendo DS

I just got a Nindendo DS and loaded the Colors! program on it. It's a lot of fun to sketch on and a really nice tool to carry around. I just got the hardware today to load the program and did this little sketch from a picture in a magazine.



I'm still figuring out all the in's and out's of loading up your pictures. There's a way to get playback video's of your sketches, but I haven't figured that out yet.

Check out Marco Bucci's blog, he's got some really great DS sketches.

A color of the previous post, done in Photoshop. Plus a John McCain to boot. Done with marker and artstix with a Photoshop gradient background.

Sketchbook

Here is a sketch of an old Toyota FJ I saw in a magazine. Look for a colored version of this soon.


The other day I found a shark book at home that I forgot I had. So I did these.

Charger SRT-8

So a friend of mine bought this awesome car you see here and asked if I could draw a caricature of it for him. I don't know how I haven't drawn this car before. That SRT division does a pretty good job, I think. So I started working on this a while ago and ended up spending way too long on it. I probably spent more time on crappy sketches than I did on the final product. But I finally finished everything this weekend. Thats my official excuse for being late on the newest Code 11 installment. But I will have one up in a day or two, I promise.


Anyway here's what the car looks like.


Here are some of the sketches I did, trying to work out in my head what the car should look like.


I had an idea of what I wanted the final to look like.


Here I have most of the details worked out for the final. Getting to this point from that other sketch took me a while. Getting it to look like a Charger instead of a generic box on wheels was tough.

A lot of the time when drawing cars, I find a cool photo I like, and just draw from that . This one was an idea I had, so getting everything right was a bit more difficult. I googled lots of pictures and videos of drift races as reference.


Here is the final product using ink and watercolor on arches.


Ater I was done I was still thinking about one of the small sketches I had done in the beginning (you can see it above) and I wanted to see that one done too. Plus, even though the first one had the action I wanted, it wasn't showing off the rims. This one went a lot quicker for me because it was drawn more directly from a photo reference than the first one.


When my friend told me he was bringing his car to a car show this weekend and displaying my artwork with his car, I threw this together to have some postcards printed up. I would love to draw people's awesome cars all the time.

The Ol' Canadian Goose Job

Here are some early sketches I did for a some little biker club. These sketches are as far as I got because that project never really took off. In other words, after they saw these they never spoke to me again. Don't ask me about the goose, I never understood the idea. But it was fun while it lasted.

A few banner sketches

Just a few quick pencil sketches with some photoshop thrown under. It's funny how barren and uninteresting my blogs look to me now. So I have decided to spruce them up a little, so I don't look as boring as I really am. These two are ideas for my other blog. Whatever I end up with will be in watercolor. I'll be coming up with something for this blog soon. I'll be open to whatever other suggestions for what my blogs need.

Website down

Unfortunately my website is down. I am trying to fix the problem (in the form of trying to get Uplinkearth to answer emails or calls) and I will keep you updated. Since I'm kind of stuck there, right now I'm creating a temporary site so I will at least have something up, till I can get everything worked out.

Update: So my new domain is KenKnafouArt.com. I'm still working on getting KenKnafou.com back, but it looks like its gonna be a while. It wasn't a big deal changing my links everywhere, but I don't know if I should bother getting new cards made now.

The Dung Beetles

My cousin made this for me for my birthday a while back (in July if you must know) and I thought it was genius so I just had to share it. He's got this great interest in dung beetles. Click, read, and enjoy.

Figure drawing

Here is some figure drawing for ya. These were done with a combination of colored marker and a ballpoint pen.

These were about 1 minute each



These were 2 minutes each.



These were 5 minutes each.


These were 10 minutes each. For these (relatively) longer poses, I brought in my laptop and wacom tablet, mostly for the sake of changing it up. It was pretty challenging, I think. Something I would like to get better at doing is good photoshop quick sketching.

Why my job is great...

First of all I'm sorry for the lack of posts here. I hit an artistic rut for a while. In an effort to get out of said rut, I started working on my comic strip. I started a new blog for it called Code 11. Check it out! I do have new stuff to post here, but I haven't scanned it in yet, due to laziness. (big surprise, i know)

I DO have a special treat. A friend of mine happened upon this little gem. Click here. If you scroll down a bit, you'll see a little story with pictures about me at work. I don't know if something is wrong with me, but this makes me so happy. When I first saw it, it made me laugh so hard, so I just had to share it. Notice my super awesome shirt too. Actual art to come soon.