Daily winter break sketches

Being home for the holiday break I haven't been able to do full illustrations but I never stop sketch 

Bad kitty

Pose book practice

Character designer Stephen Silver has an app on the App Store called "Pose Book" and it has great references to draw from. I recommend you download it. 

Coming back to life during winter break.

School was so busy last semester I'm so glad winter break is here. I needed a good rest to get me back in the groove of posting my work. 

2 hour dragon painting.

I learned a new technique how to approach my painting and it made the process easier and more fun. I also had some new brushes to play with so this painting for exploration. I had fun painting it.

Tyrion Lannister

I've been working with Adobe Illustrator for the whole semester so its nice to go back to Photoshop again. I feel like I'm improving every semester and I'm always excited to keep learning new things. I'm hooked on game of thrones as is everyone in the world. Last week episode was insane and I feel no hope for our favorite Lannister. Ned Stark didn't escape death so I feel Tyrion will suffer the same fate.

The Cats Meow

My final Project for my Illustration 3 class. My favorite assignment of the semester where I got to express my artistic side as well as my musical side. It was really fun recording each instrument. If your good at keeping a beat you can play some sweet cat music.

Horror Babies

This Assignment was for my Illustration 3 at Academy of Arts University. We had to come up with 2 themes and integrate them together. So i picked horror villains with cute babies. It turned out better than I imagined and I'm pretty happy with it. Below is the process from the first initial sketch to the color roughs and then the final image.

This was the original sketches, at first I just tried to capture the look of the Horror villains so it made it look like they were adults in diapers haha. My teacher suggested to make them look more child like by making his head bigger and him arms and legs smaller, not to mention making them chubby. 

This is the final drawing that I would outline in Adobe Illustrator. They turned out to be more baby like and a lot cuter than the first sketches. 

I tried two different color choices and picked my favorites from both of them. For an Example I liked Freddy Kruger's in the first color rough but I like Mike Myers dark hair in the second color rough. I also made some last minute changes that my teacher suggested about taking out Freddy's hair and give him some burn marks, also to add that dress Pinhead wears and give him some details in his clothes. 

And that's how I got to my final illustration. I enjoy this project and there will be more to come in the future. Thanks for listening!

Clothed figure studies

This semester I have my final foundations class. Its a nice ending because I'm being taught by the director of Illustration in Academy of Arts and hes such a great teacher and so so funny. Its only been the second day in class but I feel like I'm getting better with him teaching me. Here's some drawings have done. The theme was Boxers and Cowboys.

New profile picture

Its been awhile since I did a self portrait but I didn't feel like doing in fine art style but more cartoonish.

Bye Daddy

I wanted to convey the sad emotion of a little girl waving goodbye to her daddy going to work. She doesn't know when he'll be back and wants one last look at her dad driving away. 

Disney Tarzan Study

Tarzan is one of my favorite animations. There are so much great animation out there, and they are all my favorites. I started off with a pencil sketch and scanned it into Photoshop and worked from there. I tried my best to make it look the same as the movie and I'm pretty happy the way it turned out. 

Giraffe Studies

I did both paintings with watercolor but one with pen lines. Which one do you like best?

Playing around with a new watercolor set.

I recently bought a watercolor set Koi brand. It smalls and compact and it works wonders. 

Tree Studies

I don't draw trees that often so i thought i give it a shot. Man.... Leafs are a pain and its hard to make them look like leafs but i tried my best. My last one painting i had the most fun with and i just like the overall look. Hope you like it guys. If you guys have twitter please follow me @haynatehaywood 

Stanley.... Bo baneley. Banana fana fo fanley. In my mo manley.

Stanley.... Bo baneley. Banana fana fo fanley. In my mo manley. 


Had a fun time drawing this trying to get the right expression. I feel like drawing the whole office cast. 

Nap time

Someone is having a good nap. 

Character Doodles and Sketches

For my second post I wanted to show you some of my character doodles and sketches. Doodling is my favorite because I'm not using anything as reference and I'm just using my imagination.