Recent Update of work!

Life has been super bust lately so I put this together to give you a view of what Ive been working on!

Boba Fett Simple Portrait

Boba Fett

10" x 12"

Acrylic

Another Apple

I bought some acrylic paint, some brushes, canvas and other tools in an attempt to try out 'real' painting. I've dabbled with watercolor as a kid but always loved to rock the pencil. It's so simple elegant and easy, why change from graphite. Yet when I think of real art I think of my oil paintings on canvas of a real life subject, so in keeping with the theme of me wanting to be a real artist, I'd try out acrylics. This is the second thing Ive ever painted with oils. Below is a cherry I did last night, it turned out weird because somehow the red I  bought was oil and not acrylic so it mixed funky.

Well here is:

'Another Red Apple'

8 x 10

This is the first attempt painting anything not watercolor, and Ive never painted with water color.

'Smooshed Cherry'

'Miranda' Party Profile Series

Ill be doing a series of profile portraits from a recent party I was at, here is the 1st one in the series.

Miranda

6" x 9"

HB 6B

2 Hour Sketch

Ripleigh Rocking Freckles Live Draw

My daughter Ripleigh, she's my favorite subject to draw!

8 x 11

Live Drawing ~ 100 mins 

Central Park Bridge Study

Tried my luck at a pencil drawing of a city scene. 

6" x 9"

HB Pencil

Anna Fisher US Astronaut

Saw a sweet picture on Reddit yesterday, so I decided to draw it this morning.

Anna Fisher Circa 1985

6" x 9"

Pencil HB

Wolverine Street Art!

Did another sidewalk piece for Wyomovies, this time it was for The Wolverine movie. I didnt get time to complete this due to rain but I was happy with the result, I hope you are too!

 

Darth Maul

Darth Maul

Oil Pastel

9" x 12"

Enjoy

Apple

Working on using color theory hoohaww, I think? I used just primary colors only, and white.

9 x 12

Avalanche Coffee Mug - Oil Pastel

Went to the store today and picked up some cheap oil pastels. Never used them before but I describe it as a perfect mix of crayola crayons and chalk pastels. A far more forgiving medium than I thought, and intially I was not happy with them. 

Yet as I started to get a feel for how they worked, they really grew on me.

My Love List thus far:

1. Pencil

          2. Chalk Pastel

                              3. Standard Sidewalk Chalk

     4. Oil Pastel

        5. Watercolor

                                                             6. Acrylic (Mainly because I've never used them)

Anyway here is my first oil piece.

Tatooine at Dusk

Ive been facisnated by the free pastels I was given at the sidewalk chalk festival. I just cannot get enough of their highly forgiving super fun characteristics. 

Tatooine

9" x 12"

Pastel Chalk

RRA Jr. Portrait

First real attempt at a portrait with chalk pastels.

9 x 12"

Bacon on the Range Side Walk Art

My submission to the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo Side Walk Chalk Festival, what a name..

Bacon on the Range was ~ 8' x 12' and sadly washed away a few hours after completion.

Another view to show some sort of scale.

Darth Malak Drawing

Darth Malak

HB, 2B, 6B

6" x 9"

Plo Koon Bust

Plo Koon

HB Pencil

6 x 9"

Dam I love Star Wars!

Pizza Dog Dexter

I normally avoid drawing animals due to the fact that, well, I suck at drawing animals. So since sucking sucks, I decided to try to draw my disaster dog, Dexter, and since it's #pizzadog week here you all go!

9 minute sketch

HB Pencil

Indi Soul Live Draw

Went to an Indi Soul jam session tonight. I love music almost as much as I love to draw, if not more. I feel that the emotion in good music is a catalyst for my art, and what better way to do that than a live draw. I did this over a two hour session with breaks for shots and celebration! 

Family is all there is!

Saw a picture today and it just had my style and emotion written all over it. So since I cant write worth a darn, I drew it, and then gave it as a gift for a great dad!

Superman: Man of Steel Side Walk Art

People are loving the new Superman movie, so in honor of its release, I sat at Studio City last night and created this for them. Thanks for letting me come sit for you!

Superman: Man of Steel

Batman reflecting..

 This is the first of many commission pieces I hope! I was lucky enough to have someone request a Batman piece in my interpretation, in charcoal. This is what I felt when I drew Batman, sure most people draw Batman all tough and angry, but Ive always felt DC Comics style was to focus on the people then their powers. I hope you like it!

"Batman Reflecting"

Charcoal and 5H pencil

9" x 12"

Austerity in Spain

How can we get to a place where police and firefighters are fighting it out on the street? Isn't the USA in some for of austerity? Are we fighting? Do we care enough to notice, let alone fight?

Richard Ray Atkins Jr Life Drawing

On this Memorial Day I went to pay homage to my one true hero, my dad! I couldnt think of a better way for me to celebrate his life than to draw what I have of him! Love you dad!

11" x 19"

Charcoal and 3H, HB Pencil

Quick sketch time girls and boys!!

In my never ending quest to draw the perfect human condition, I seek out pics from the Internet and limit my time to less than  20 mins. The time limit for me stops the perfectionist in me and lets me just draw somewhat freely without the constraints of worry about proportion or contouring. Enough blabblery here..

All pieces here are simple 9" x 6"

Picture from Reddits top page today:

20 minutes

Pic from /r/redditgetsdrawn This is my first submission to this subreddit. I hope to do more work here.

12 minutes

Drunk draw from a cool pic I saw on Reddit as well..

8 minutes

Self Portrait

Decided to do a selfie for this most recent project. 

I sat in front of a mirror for nearly 4 hours drawing this and my knees were suffering the effects.

C3PO Sidewalk art!

C3PO

In Chalk.

Please dont rain!

Boba Fett Street Art

Happy May the 4th, or Star Wars day! 

In celebration of this awesome holiday in conjunction with a great weather day, I sketched up Boba Fett on the concrete in simple chalk bought at Wal-Mart.

Twentieth post finally! This is an incredible amount of drawing for me, so to celebrate I went back to bare bones drew out this skull. I plan on doing all the skeleton for anatomical drawing purposes, starting from the top and working down.  

Skull

1.5 Hours

Shazam

Going DC this time with another request!

Shazam!

I wanted more time but my eyes wouldnt let me!

Dr. Manhattan

I asked on twitter @theryanatkins 'What should I draw?'

I got a reply of 'Dr Manhattan.'

So here is Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen

8.5" x 11"

Nefertiti Resurrected!

Hosted a few live Google Hangouts also streamed to YouTube while I spent a few hours drawing this spectacutlar figure of history.

Nefertiti

8.5" x 11"

Oh No You Did'Nit

Tonight I put my work out onto the internet live in the form of a Google Hangout. It's a live webcast so to speak where people can come join in and watch me draw. You can chat and talk with each other, and share links and what not!

I had one visitor on my very first Hangout, which is sweet since the camera I used is ghetto, even for Wyoming!

Here is what I drew in about and hour and a half.