Day 82, 83 & 84: Plus a Bonus Print!

#82: Insert Bird Here

#83: Pioneer Square

#84: Insert Human Here

BONUS PRINT!

This print was commissioned by my good friend Kyle for his very lovely girlfriend, Cynthia. These are her pooches Topsy and Toby. Happy Birthday Cynthia!

Day 81: Feeling Double

Feeling much better in regards to where this drawing ended up. My solution to yesterday's doldrums were to cut into, combine and use multiple photographs. Although, still fighting the urge to scrawl, scribble and write. In actuality I wish I had more letter stickers. I really enjoyed the look of the pre-printed and static lettering against the textured charcoal.

Day 80: Cansado

I have been very sleepy all week. And, as I post this drawing I am very unenthusiastic about it. It seems tired, stuck in a rut. These drawings have to go some where and all the good ones are being sold. I now only have twenty more left to do. I figure I better do something to keep them fresh. Any ideas?

Day 79: El Libro de los Dibujos O Dónde Está el Puerco?

This is a dedicated to my lawyer. Matt, if I give you drawings do they count as a retainer?

I have done something that I believe is the first time ever! I have completely filled a sketch book. I have this compulsion to buy sketch books and never fill any of them. I even have some that I have never opened. Sad, I know. However, doing a drawing every day seems to be the cure for that. If I can curb my addiction to buying any sketch books and use the ones I have, my guess it would take at least five years before I had to buy another one, at least!

Day 78: Tree vs. Smokestack

I feel like this drawing is missing something but couldn't bring myself to actually do anything more. My first inclination was to scrawl something along the bottom. But, no that was the wrong place and would ruin the flow and negative space that is happening there.


My second reaction was to write in the grey space toward the top of the photograph. This is a perfect place that would catch your eye and then draw it downward. However, in both instances I came to the conclusion I didn't have anything to write. I could just scribble but that, pardon the pun, doesn't say anything.

Now as I recount the process of creating the drawing, it has occurred to me what I should have done. And, I will most likely try with today's drawing.

Tune in tomorrow to see what happens to the daring artist Luna C as he battles pencil and paper in a duel to the end. And now a word from our sponsor...

What did the tree say to the smokestack? "You haven't moved from that spot all night except to ask for a light!"

Day 74, 75, 76 & 77: El Fin de la Semana, Grande!

Thursday...Crow vs. Rooster.

Friday...Attack of the Branches

Saturday...Birdhouse or Sanctuary

Sunday...4 to 1

Fin.

Day 73: Una Reunión

So ends the work week today for most people. I'm sorry for those of you it doesn't. It is a long holiday weekend and I am actually not going anywhere. So, I may continue to post daily through the weekend or I may post four drawings on Monday. I haven't decided. I suppose it depends on how inebriated I remain throughout the weekend.

Plans are to do a little landscaping. Stone is on my mind. I am very into natural stone these days. I just love the look. I am into combining natural formations with machined or crafted wood and metal. There is something very interesting when these two things come together.

Day 72: La Calle Martinez-Luna

Day 71: El Desierto

I have now embarked on the last 30 drawings of the 100. Yipee!

It has come to my attention that people are interested in the drawings for purchase. (Okay, I got one offer.) However, I thought I should let people know that yes indeed the drawings are available. Clarification, most of the drawings are available expect for, of course, the first thirty which went to particular people. And, available for cheap. Pricing is between $25- $50. If you are interested send me an email at christopher@martinezluna.com and we can negotiate.

Thank you to all of you who have been following the drawings. Here is to hoping that they don't stop after a 100, wink, wink.

Day 68, 69 & 70: Los de Abajos O Perro de Rey

In our house there is only one of us that controls the remote and he guards it well. Too bad all he wants to watch is Animal Planet. I guess that makes us the underdogs.

I am enjoying taping old random photographs to my drawings as a starting point. Sometimes while in the middle of a drawing ideas keep coming and I never know when to stop. I over work them they get muddy and I don't achieve what I first set out to accomplish. In both of the following drawings I felt they needed more but actually didn't know what to do or where to go with them. So, I abandoned them. As I look at them now, I am glad I did. They would have been over worked. I really need to consciously realize when to stop.

Day 67: Luna Llena

So ends another week. Now, I may stick to not posting this weekend and just post three drawings on Monday. Or, it may rain and I'll be stuck inside. Although, I do have a commission piece to work on and some portraits to do for an upcoming show in September. Yes a show! I'll keep you advised on that as I find out more information.

Anyways, have a great weekend!

Day 66: Los Árboles Otra Vez

I really like birch trees. Might have to plant one.

Day 65: El Río Bravo

I finally found the time to clean my studio this last weekend. It had become overgrown with books, paper, drawing materials and chain saws. I swept through the saw dust and found the table top which means I can dirty it up again. This has led to yesterday's and today's drawing with my good friend charcoal. Charcoal and I have known each other for a long time now, since high school. We love to get drunk and get sloppy. Or, in other words NASSTY. Enjoy.

What's up with that bird?! Go away bird!

Day 64: Árbol

Una dedicación a mi bueno amigo, Ian.

Day 61, 62 & 63: El Fin de la Semana

I have given into not posting on the weekends. I find it too hard between working in the yard, walking & playing with my dog, hanging with the wife and our social calender plus trying to just plain relax and draw to take time and sit in front of a computer. Life is just to short. And, that is why weekdays exist. So here are the last three days of drawing.

My wife has asked me to submit suggestions for a graphic on her blog that she is trying to create, Krystal Clear. Both, so far, have been summarily rejected. My wife is the most difficult client I have ever had.

Saturday was spent helping my friend Kyle celebrate his 32 birthday. After being yelled at for not providing him with more free art especially on his birthday, I decided to do some more drinking and drawing and created this loving portrait of Kyle and his significant other, Cynthia. Not sure who I should give it to, Cynthia or Kyle. I guess which ever one reads this first and sends me an email will get it. Of course that is assuming Kyle even remembers the weekend.

Lastly, I have a new best friend, Emmett. We hung out all Sunday afternoon. We played music, read books, rolled on the floor, bounced, played crinkle cube, ate lunch, basically just had a wonderful time together. I even did a portrait of Emmett and he was so mischievous as to keep kicking my arm as I drew him and making funny faces. He is such a funny guy!

So, three different days, three very different drawings. It was a very different (and by different I mean wonderful) weekend.

Day 60: Todos Juntos, Ahora!

I had this idea to use some collage of Mexican newspapers in my 100 drawings but what I brought back didn't really spark anything. Here is my first attempt.



Well, this is number 60. Only 40 left to go. I am feeling like I really want to focus in on one idea but not quite sure what that is yet. Also, need to get going on some portraits. I need to repair a piece for a friend. I would like to do a series of block prints of Pugnacious maybe reignite interest in the Paw Prints of Seattle website. But first I really need to organize the studio. It's a shambles.
Oops, and there are a bunch people out there waiting for drawings I promised a month ago. Sorry! They are coming soon.

Day 59: Santos de Partido

Had no idea where this was going but it went...

Day 56-58: Mas Lugares

This is the second post to catch up over the extended holiday weekend that I experienced. The first two drawings are the last in the series of rainy landscapes. I received a few compliments on these drawings and I have to say that I really like them as well.

I am currently having a love affair with graphite. We dated once but went our separate ways after I was tempted away by the seductress charcoal. I'm afraid to say that I cannot be loyal to my drawing implements.

Last nights drawing is the third one posted below. Needless to say, my new lover and I did not agree on what we were making. Style, mood and concept all play a role in dictating what material should be used. My graphite mistress did not compliment my mid-century feel I was going for. I must remember to consider materials when trying to create a certain mood.

Could this be the end of my love affair? Tune in tomorrow to find out.

Day 53-55: Otros Lugares

Sorry for the lag in posts. I needed to spend some time away soaking up another culture, sample strange new foods and see places I could never imagine. I decided to take off at the drop of a hat to the very exotic beaches of Boise, Idaho. However, the drawing never ceases. Here are some interpretations of the foreign landscape.

Day 52: Amigos

One of my favorite things lately, has been to go to intimate concerts and take a sketch book. It started with John Nemeth and continued with Iron and Wine. Well, last night my wife and I spent the evening with friends having dinner and drinks. Everyone was such a good sport to let me drink and draw, to let me stare at them while they enjoyed their pizza and swigged their beers.

Figure drawing is just about my favorite thing to do. I totally end up in another dimension where I am completely oblivious to everything but the pencil on the paper. However, in figure drawing the model is paid to be completely still and of course naked. I cannot afford the rate my friends would charge to stay still let alone be completely nude. I do not have cheap friends. So, their constant movement makes things a bit more difficult but that is a wonderful challenge I enjoy.

Here are a few of my favorite people...