Today’s random object was a camel. I pulled out the little Safari toy, blocked in the shapes, and tried to make it fit on the page. Sometimes you have to cut shadows short to get everything in.

Velociraptors were first discovered in 1923 by Peter Kaisen on a Roy Chapman Andrews expedition in the Gobi Desert. All he found was a crushed skull and a claw, the very claw that made these dinosaurs famous in the movies.

At 5:30 in the morning, the Random Object Randomogrifier handed me a Stegosaurus. I thought I had drawn one before, maybe the little rubbery toy, but I could not find the recording. This Safari model has more detail, so it made for a good sketch subject. Composition is always the first step, blocking in shapes…

This morning at 5:30am Texas time on Sketch and Coffee Live I pulled a toy liver from the Random Object Randomogrifier. Not the kind of thing you wake up hoping to draw, but that is the beauty of random objects. You never know what you are going to get, and today it happened to be…

This morning’s random object was a Texas Longhorn figurine. Composition came first, making sure there was enough room for the horns to stretch across without running off the edge of the page!

Today’s random object was  the Arc de Triomphe. A little toy version sat on my desk while I sketched it in ink and watercolor wash, but behind that model is a monument that towers over Paris, covered in stories carved in stone.