OptionJoe Art

My drawings from Week 9 of Drawing Winsday

Working on doing Christmas character designs

Today (sunday) I'm at Lightbox Expo from 10am - 2pm. If you see me around wearing my Muppets Studio hat and California Quail tshirt, stop me and say hi!

Today I volunteered as a parent chaperone for my daughter's class trip to see The Wild Robot at the theater.

The movie is fantastic! Great story, beautiful to look at, funny and heartwarming.

Being a parent of a neuro-divergent child, I was surprised how much I related to this story. It's difficult to explain if you haven't seen it.

Anyway, I was reminded of some drawings I did about 7 years ago. Not knowing there was even a book series about a Wild Robot, I came up with characters that seemed to have fit in this storyline.

If you haven't seen The Wild Robot, I can't recommend it enough!

Well done and everyone who worked on it!

Today's Drawing Winsday drawings

I can't believe it's already week 8! Two months of drawing fun characters live!

Character Design! Using my hi-tech ziploc bags, I grabbed animals and attitudes/emotions, creating characters on the spot.

Some of last week's Drawing Winsday cheetah drawings

A few dragons from my sketchbook

I doodled some Giraffe expressions in my little sketchbook the other day. I'm happy with most of them.

Drawings from last week's Drawing Winsday

Hope to see you this Winsday!

Go Ape? More like Joe Apel, am I right?

(I think I'm losing my mind)

After my live Drawing Winsday today, I decided to do the 20 minute pose of the model. It needs some work, but overall I'm happy I did it.

Drawings from Drawing Winsday with Optionjoe.

I was getting more out of my comfort zone, sharing a personal project, a children's book, that I'm working on and my process of designing the characters and laying out a rough cover.