Matt's Monster Madness 2013 - Day 01 Red Dragon

This is day one of thirty-one days of Monster Sketches in October. Done in Sketchbook Pro w/a pressure sensitive pen on a Surface Pro.

Children's Curriculum Coloring Pages





Here's some of the latest images I have drawn for a children's curriculum in a closed mission field. One was drawn with my Microsoft Surface Pro with a pressure sensitive pen. The others were all drawn with two different sized sharpies. Can you tell which one? How can you tell? Write your answer in the comments below!

JUMP VBS Illustrations

I'm on the final end of putting together the JUMP VBS curriculum. Here's a few illustrations that are going in the book.

Art notes: I didn't use any pencils on these. I just drew them straight away with an ink pen. Specifically, I used a combination of the following three pens:
Faber-Castell - PITT artist pen - Medium
Uni-Ball - EYE - waterproof/fadeproof - Micro
Bic - Mark It permanent marker - Fine point

In the Meantime...

Today marks the five day countdown until the Great October Halloween Monster Sketch. Starting October 1st, I will be uploading at least one new monster sketch per day. In the meantime, here is a new drawing from another project I am working on. Enjoy....

Marco

Here is a sketch of a friend of ours, Marco.

Anthropomorphic sketches

Italian Girl Sketches

Here are a couple of sketches I did for the paper doll project I am working on.

Western Sketches

Here are a couple of western sketches I did.

John Curriculum - New Webspace

I just finished uploading the John curriculum for children that we created to a new home on the internet. It is found at http://crossersjohncurriculum.blogspot.com/. There are 23 full color story cards, as well as 23 color sheets to go with them. The stories are in Italian, so those will have to come later, but if you have a Bible you can create your own stories in the meantime. Let me know if you have any questions.

A Little Girl's Tea Party sketch

And here is the follow up to the Boy's Football Dream sketch, it is "A Little Girl's Tea Party".

Hairstyles: Women

One of the things that I have always had the most difficulty drawing is women's hairstyles. First of all, there are tons of them, and being a man, I am not privy to dressing my hair in any of their styles. So, when I found myself standing alone at the airport while we were taking our summer interns to fly out, I pulled out my trusty moleskin and started to sketch. The bad thing about getting up at 4:30 AM to go to the airport is that it is at 4:30 in the morning, enough said. The good thing is that the airport is packed and everyone is dressed nice, ready to go to wherever they are going. So, noticing all the different hairstyles, I thought it an ideal time to sketch some of what I was seeing. Here is the scanned page out of my moleskin.

Building Background - Original Idea Sketch

Here is the original sketch that I made as I was coming up with the idea for the building background.

Drawing of Marco Poeta

So at one of our latest Coffee Houses, we had a great guitarist come in and play. He had a very unique persona and was inspiritional to draw. So here is my sketch and a link to youtube, where we put some videos of Marco playing at our Coffee House.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=marco+poeta+coffeehouse