Stream of consciousness drawing #3

I present another drawing from the stream of consciousness. These are just an exercise in putting down my imagination to paper. There is no story or reason to anything, just simple drawing. Sometimes they give rise to an idea that I will go further with, but most of the time they aren’t really anything besides imagination practice. I definitely recommend giving it a try, and don’t hold back! Put anything and everything down that comes to mind.

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Stream of consciousness drawing #3 © Chris Lane Photo

If you like these, take a look at the others I have done so far:
#2
#1

I need your help

See, I want to work on some more personal 3D projects, but the main problem is, I need an idea. Well, I like to doodle in my sketchbook and one day I decided I would draw out a page full of various robots. Then, I thought, why not make one or more into 3D and animate them. Now what I want to know is, which do you think I should make 3D? So, take a look at this sketch of robots and let me know what you think in the comments. When there are some votes, I’ll decide on the winner and make some progress posts of the 3D project as I work.
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Robot sketches © Chris Lane Photo

Featured Artist – Illustrator Dwight Donarski

As a young boy I always had the great opportunity to know a real live artist. Before I really knew of any famous artists both modern and historical I could look up to my uncle Dwight Donarski. He is a phenomenal illustrator that gave my parents a drawing of my brother and I of which they proudly hung on the wall. I was always amazed at his skill with the pencil and fancied that I could one day grow up to be like him. I still don’t think I have the technical skill that he empowers. He was the first to teach me shading with my crayons as a child and I have been encouraged and inspired by him ever since. I thought to share an interview I conducted with him so that others may be inspired by him as well.

I’m the younger one in this drawing from 1988:
Brothers illustration
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Two new name illustrations

A few months back I held a contest to win a custom name illustration to one lucky subscriber and showed an example of such. Tanner L was the winner and a while ago I finished his illustration, and thought I should share it here also. It works as a great example that the illustration can have any kind of names, not just family. Tanner chose four directors, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorcese, whose work has influenced him and his own work. I am rather happy with the result and Tanner was very much so as well. He left the color choice to me and I thought it was fitting to put this one as various shades of red on a black background as it fit with Tanner’s personality as well as the darker nature of the work of the directors.

Tanner's name illustration © Chris Lane Photo
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Stream of consciousness drawing #2

Here is yet another random drawing from my stream of consciousness. These are essentially just an exercise in putting down my imagination to paper. There is no story or reason to anything, just simple drawing. I definitely recommend giving it a try, and don’t hold back!
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Stream of consciousness drawing #2 © Chris Lane Photo