Drawing While Busy?

I had a lot to do this weekend. My parents showed up on Thursday for a week long visit. My husband Michael is getting ready to head out of town. And he and I had a karate camp to attend. That's right - karate. We're both second degree black belts. We started out about eight years ago, and look where we are today. It took a lot of practice to get here, but here we are.

Which makes me think, if I practice drawing every day, could I have a "black belt" in that too?

In any event, I had to find time to fit in a bit of drawing. I actually did more than I have to show today. I did a random doodle on a desk calendar that I thought was actually kind of nice (for a doodle), and I did a pen and ink drawing this evening that looked interesting. But I don't have either of those scanned in yet. What I do have is more manga eyes.

 

This first sheet shows the scribble/doodle warm up I did, along with a quickie eye and a cartoon style head. It's sort of a female elf. Nothing fancy, just me scribbling away.

 

This second sketch is a series of eyes. Still working from Colleen Doran's "Girl to Grrrl Manga." She has pages of eyes in that book. Some are really interesting shapes, not what I would normally consider for eyes, but they look cool. I mean, eyes are supposed to be round, right? But I did a little playing around, drawing a pair of rectangles, a pair of ovals and a pair of triangles. You can still see the basic shapes beneath the final eyes I drew. I thought these came out pretty well (although a little lopsided, as usual for me), and the using the different shapes definitely kept me from drawing the same eyes over and over again.