Sketch Stack

Lately I've been drawing a ton. I can't remember the last time I missed a day of drawing, but it's been somewhere around a month. I've made this challenge for myself: I must at least do some rough sketching with basic practice everyday, if I don't have the energy to do something better. I've found that doing a warm-up of practicing lines, basic shapes, and gesture drawing both keeps you practicing and getting better, as well as getting you started drawing before you have a chance to be intimidated and never start.

I've been adding to a pile of drawings which I call my sketch stack. It keeps me motivated because I like seeing how big the stack is getting and also enjoy looking through it and remembering what I've done. Some of the stuff is pretty good even though it was mostly just for practice or warm up.

Here are some of my sketch/practice/scrap pages from the last week.

An Introduction

My name is Christopher Birnbaum, and I've been working hard at my dream of becoming a professional storyboard artist, character designer, and animator for a while now, but I'm just now starting a blog with my work. Don't get me wrong, I've been posting elsewhere, such as on my website, my tumblr, and social media. But I thought it might be a good idea to have a blog as well so I could be a bit more personal with my sharing, and I also like having everything dated when I post it. Gives me a some security and claim to my work. I want this blog to be completely devoted to my art and journey as an artist.

With that, let me post some of my best work so far to get my blog rolling. This is work I've done over the past year or so.