tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142846192007-10-19T17:07:56.807-07:00Odds and ends from Peabody Library staff.Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1159988102170781742006-10-04T11:49:00.000-07:002006-10-04T11:55:02.180-07:00

Hello faithful reader, as the title implies, I have decided to forsake this hijacked blog. "But Eli, aside from your website, where will I get to see new art from you?" "From my new art blog!!! elimoody.blogspot.com!!! So come on over and check it out. I've copied all the things I've posted on this blog over, so you will be able to enjoy all the old posts as well as all the new exciting art

Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1159827973524080902006-10-02T15:26:00.000-07:002006-10-02T15:26:13.536-07:00

(Eli) As I mentioned in my last post, I'm sort of frustrated that when I ink over my pencils, for woman particularly, the images just don't look as good. So, I've stopped trying to ink my images for the moment, and thought I'd show the newest ones I've done in pencil form. You can click on the images to view them at a larger size. You are also welcome to check out my website.

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(Eli) So, as I said last time, I've been working on drawing the female figure. These are a few early attempts. There is not much that I can say about them except that while my pencils for these pieces look pretty good, I always seem to mess up somehow while inking them. As usual you can click on the images to view them at a larger size, and feel free to check out my website for other

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(Eli) In terms of drawing people, I primarily learned from copying images out of comic books. Not comic strips, like Dagwood or Beetle Bailey, but comic books like Spiderman and Superman. The figures in comic books are, for all practical purposes, nude figures that have lines drawn in to make it appear that they are wearing impossibly skin tight uniforms. Not only are these figures basically

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(Eli) Well, the month of August was crazy here at the library, so I really didn't have a chance to post anything! Things are calmer now, and as a result I'm going to start posting new images for you faithful viewers out there. However, before I do that, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that I now have a website for myself now: www.elimoody.net It is nothing spectacular by any means,

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(Eli) "Hey Eli, you've been posting more art lately!" "Yes, you are correct, and here is more! This is for a girl that I used to teach in Sunday School who is moving to Colorado. She asked me to paint her some animals, so here's what I did. Watercolors made this page wrinkle up a little bit." "If I click on this image, will it get larger?" "Yes it will. Enjoy!"

Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1153522638098442482006-07-21T15:53:00.000-07:002006-07-21T15:57:18.113-07:00

(Eli) Hello all, here's a little doodle that I did during a meeting yesterday. It was done with a little black pen I had found earlier that day, and I started with the tail and just drew this whole thing from scratch. Hope it brightens up your weekend! Click on the image to view it at a larger size.

Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1152820995327744902006-07-13T12:56:00.000-07:002006-07-13T13:03:15.336-07:00

(Eli) Recently, I found a cool brush-tipped pen that I bought when I was in highschool. I didn't use it very much then, but I've been experimenting with it and thought I would show off a couple of examples of what I've been able to do with it. I really like the hair on both of these characters, and the way the ink lines look overall. You can enjoy them at a larger size by clicking on them.

Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1152647245034794442006-07-11T12:43:00.000-07:002006-07-11T12:47:25.036-07:00

(Eli) This second sketch is Tarzan. I'd just finished reading a tarzan novel, and starting drawing a guy, and decided to turn it into tarzan. What a chin huh? I really like the way his hair turned out. Drawing hair has always been pretty hard for me, but this turned out pretty good I think. Well, enjoy.

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(Eli) I know, I know, if I'm going to have a blog and cultivate a loyal fan base, I've got to post more often. Well, to make it up to all you loyal viewers, I'm posting two little things today. The first is a sketch I did for the son of one of our student workers. It was his first time in the library and he liked my buffalo guy (I had some sketches out at the desk) so I thought I'd make the

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(Eli) Well, I'm back with more Buffalo Man. This is something that I did as an experiment in using heavy shadows and dramatic lighting. Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes), in his Tracer Bullet persona, really inspired me in this regard. Click on the image for a higher resolution image.

Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1147905123859510562006-05-17T15:25:00.000-07:002006-05-17T15:32:03.880-07:00

(Eli) Well, I'm still on this western kick, so here's a picture of a character I've drawn for a long time called "The Professor". I mentioned him in one of my previous posts. Here I've outfitted him in western garb. His shirt is always half untucked, no real reason except it makes him eccentric. He always has a crustacean fork in his pocket...again, I'm not really sure why. I guess in case he

Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1146598082176313812006-05-02T12:20:00.000-07:002006-05-02T12:28:02.186-07:00

(Eli) I was kind of enjoying this indian guy when I drew him so I also drew him from the side. Enjoy! As usual, you can click on the image to view it at a larger size.

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(Eli) I drew this old American Indian guy recently. There's not really a lot I can say about him except that he's obviously in pretty good shape for his age. Looking at this picture just now I notice that I've once again messed up on his abs, they look...off somehow. As usual you can click on the picture to view it at a larger size.

Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1144701680180486992006-04-10T13:36:00.000-07:002006-04-10T14:01:21.266-07:00

(Eli) Well, it has been a while, almost a month, since I last posted any art. Fear not friends, I've not given up, I've just been busy and not had as much sketching time. Here is one of my recent pieces. This one was done for Student Worker Appreciation Week, to go on the front of a card. I spent much more time on this than any of the other sketches I've posted, because of what it is. You can

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(Eli) I did this orchid while trying to come up with a cover image for a card for a co-worker. This was done pretty quickly and colored with markers that I have at my desk. Enjoy!

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(Eli) Here we have a simple head shot of a guy...a tough looking guy that I drew with a red Pilot pen while I was waiting on something to happen (I can't remember what). Sometimes you see ink sketches that have been altered in Photoshop or something to change the color of the ink, but in this case, this is exactly how the original looks. Enjoy!

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(Eli) Remember a while ago when I put up a picture of an elfen princess leaving via snail-pulled chariot? I said I was going to watercolor that picture, and indeed I did...enjoy.

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(Eli) Well, I've put up a lot of Buffalo Man stuff in the past month and I'm ready to post other things, thus 3 posts in one day. I'll leave the Buffalo Man for now as a bouncer at a party/Gala event. In this picture I've decided his size in relation to normal people, and have been able to incorporate a lot of the developmental stuff I've done. I've tried to create a scene/situation for the

Peabody Library Staffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14284619.post-1141236671866137942006-03-01T10:04:00.000-08:002006-03-01T10:11:11.866-08:00

(Eli) Once the character is set visually, you can give it a backstory, figure out why it is, where it came from, what it does, stuff like that. In the case of my Buffalo Man, I've not really nailed a lot of this stuff down, so I've been experimenting. At one point I thought it'd be fun if he was a detective, so I drew him holding an oversized Desert Eagle (a normal one would not fit his hands).

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(Eli) "What!?? Another development sketch! I thought we were done with that part!" Well, yes, but I came up with a picture of my Buffalo Man smiling and thought I'd add it to contrast the angry/yelling/roaring shot from Part 5. I think of the Buffalo Men as pretty private, so he has a shy smile...he'd never show his teeth in a smile. Enjoy. As a side note, I do all these drawing on scrap

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(Eli) I realize that the development part of character creation is pretty tedious sometimes, but the payoff is tremendous. Because I took the time to create facial expressions, to imagine the character from different angles, figure out how the hands look, ect. I can now have fun with this character. In this picture, the Buffalo Man has just ripped the head off of an evil FrankensteinRobot. This

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(Eli) The final bit of development that I have to do is the development of expressions. These Buffalo Men seem to be of a pretty grumpy disposition in all of these sketches, but, if I were going to put them into a story, I'd need to give them some other expressions, or they would be pretty boring. I wanted to draw a really, really angry, yelling/roaring Buffalo Man and here's what I came up with

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(Eli) Now that I'm pretty comfortable with how my Buffalo Man looks from the front, the next logical step is to draw him from the side. This will give me pretty much all the reference I'll need to draw this guy in any pose I want. This particular drawing was going to include a person who the Buffalo Man is interrogating, but wasn't sure how large he was compared to normal people and didn't want

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(Eli) Now that I've made myself visualize my Buffalo Man from different angles, I decided to draw a portrait shot of him. This is a close shot of his head, and drawn more realistically than cartoony. I enjoyed this because I was able to give him a bit more expression, a bit more detail, use some shading, etc. Now, let's be honest here, at this point I'm not totally comfortable about a few

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