Ballpoint self portrait

These are the same ballpoint pen sketch, I just threw some colored pencil in the after I scaned. wearing my favorite red sweater

Oil pantings

Here are my first three Oil pantings.

I just started a new session of classes, and this time I am trying to do things I have never tried.

These were about 2 1/2 hour paintings, never got to render these to a finish, but I am learning a lot.

another caricatured court room sketch

working on a project for a company here is one of the drawings I think is pretty fun.

Zoo and sketch night drawing

renderings...

the reason men subscribe to Victoria's Secret.

SIM Atm

A friend came over last night and let my roommates (Matt and Taylor) create ourselves in her SIMS computer game....how cool is that!!
Me on the left.

caricatured court room sketch

these are a just practice for a illustration job I'm working on...I was not in a courtroom while drawing these.

courtroom caricature sketches

boyz will be boys

Something inspired by Lord of the flies. Not really finished with it but I thought I would share...

amazon dude

he must be in a hurry to meet the girl....or it could be the deadly saucers..

amazon chick

more sketchbook drawings

sketchbook fun

just some fun sketchbook drawings I thought I would post.
I also did some arm anatomy sketches.

old life drawing

A life drawing I did, but never finished.
this one was still in the measurement stages...I really enjoy long poses, I find it to be a meditation of sorts.


The tracing is from my teacher Ron just showing me some sweet stuff,

little ninja nostalgia

I loved ninja turtles as a kid, I would play with the toys for hours, pull the turtle bus behind my bike, good times!

My Book

I have been working on Illustrating a book that I co wrote a while back, here are some of the illustrations that are further along.
The name of the book is "Madame's journey home"

celebrity samples

some celebrity samples for a festival i did recently.

Few from the week in the park.

Still life

Still life from my "Drawing in color" class, About 2 1/2 hours of work, it was a mask and a skull.
Colored paper, B&W charcoal, and conte crayon.
I was pretty pleased with it, enjoy.

Madame butterfly

I recently saw the movie Kung Fu Panda, and let me tell you, SWEET!
Before I even saw the movie I had been blown away by an artist named Damon Bard, he does sculpture maquettes that are just amazing.
Damon did character turn-arounds for "Panda" and as I was researching his work it inspired me to make my own maquettes for a book I am currently illustrating. So here's a little piece I did using a couple mediums like sculpey, colored paper, and foam pads...she's going to be the butterfly in the book.
"Madame's journey home"

Here's a little "sculpiture" I did on Indy.
Not really much of a Harrison Ford likeness, but it's not to bad for 1 hour 5 inches and no paint.
I like to do this every once and awhile, I think it's one of the most beneficial excercises there is for drawing Caricatures, or anythong else.

Sorry the pictures are pretty bad....

supa' baby

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Here is a live drawing I did the other day, I have been drawing live caricatures here and there, on and off for about 2 1/2 years.
I started out working with an airbrush when I worked in MN for "MAD" man Tom Richmond.
I now use art stixx (a slightly larger, woodless colored pencil) at my current employer.
It's really tough to say what I like more...I think both can teach you somthing, and both give you the ability to accomplish unique look.
I'm really excited to go back to airbrush and see if I can apply any of the sweet techniques I've learned with the stixx.
I'm am really lucky to work with a very talented artist here in Cali, who is one of the best I've seen with the art stixx, so with my friend Marco's help, I feel I'm getting the concept.

Sorry about the picture, the one of the drawing was with camara, but I took the one of the little girl on a friends cell phone. I didn't really get the same expression in the picture as much as when I was drawing her....darn.