Michael Murdock - Illustration blog.: drawing

Monday, October 11, 2010

New poster

Here is a poster I created.. just because. I am giving away a 13x19 print of this for anyone who wants to "Like" my Facebook page, share it, and comment on the posting.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Sketches

These are some sketches to be made into paintings when i get some time. The one that looks like me is kind of a self-portrait, and kind of not... I will post the painted versions when i get around to painting them.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Girl with Goggles part 2

Here is an update to the drawing I posted a couple of days ago. I painted this one. As you can see. I tend to not worry about my sketch lines when I paint, I like to see them with the color, I think it looks cooler, has a certain amount of organic feel to it, rather than a clean, overly worked image... maybe that's just me.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Goggles.

What would a blog post be without goggles? I enjoy goggles, own a pair of my own (handcrafted by me) and I thought, why not put them on a chick? So here you go. Goggles on a chick. It kind of ties in with a personal project I am working on... kind of. This project will hopefully be huge. I am planning on working on it over the next year and not really telling anyone about it. It seems when i voice stuff, it never ends up happening, so i am keeping it quiet.

Monday, May 24, 2010

My 100th post

Hey look.. 100 posts. it only took a couple of years... and nothing has really been said during that time. Nice. Here is another self-portrait.. because I am vain.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Zombie Hamster.

I had an idea for a character after my daughter's hamster died. These sketches are the result. I still think it would be cool, just haven't go around to doing anything with it yet.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The best eraser.

In my professional opinion, the best eraser you can get is the Staedtler Mars Plastic eraser. Now, some may say that maybe a kneaded eraser is better, but I stand by my view that the Mars eraser is far superior than the kneaded eraser. Here is why: The kneaded eraser gets real dirty, real fast. One may say that the advantage is that there is no eraser "dust", but in my opinion, this is just evidence that the garbage you are trying to get rid of is staying in your eraser, which makes it necessary to get a new one. With the Mars eraser, you are erasing the pencil, then blowing it or wiping it away, thus leaving less graphite on the actual eraser, which will provide a cleaner erase next time you use it. Also, I tend to knead the kneaded erasers kind of like a nervous tick when they are in my hand, and it ends up transferring dirt onto my hands, which is not good for all of the "cleanest hands in the office" contest... I don't know what that means. Anyway, here is a picture of the magnificent eraser.