Protective...not Angry

Some bird concept I thought up while driving through the desert.. and a few more digital pieces I have been playing with

they all think he's a righteous dude...

Every once and awhile you've got to get some cotton and clean the creativity out of your ears...Who knows why it gets stuck there..

Here: we have a few late night sketches, thoughts, and watercolors.

There: we have some studies and caricatures

Enjoy!

hey pizza head!

Good morning blank void to which I blog to once in awhile, I hope your having a great morning!

I ladies and gentleman and especially happy today, for this is my first post on my new computer, and it seems to be working flawlessly.

I was looking to upgrade for the past 3 months but was just waiting for the right deal and the perfect match, and as it turned out I now have a Mac, which I am new to ownership but have played with for years... I do like how it handles adobe programs :D


I got out the old watercolors this week and have be playing with them more and more. I paint a lot with gouache and use it fairly think and opaque, but in the two pieces here I layered and used a lot more water in a more traditional approach.

I like to try and do tiny thumbnails paintings in just a few minutes. there are a few here that I didn't really know what was happening in them till they were half done...the one of the beach was a longer study.

Caricature Trade! one of the best parts about drawing caricatures is pushing exaggeration and trying new mediums on coworkers.. here I was drawn by an awesome artist from Iowa, Kira..later I returned the favor with this watercolor of her.
Also a drawing I did of another coworker.


Figure drawing..wish I did that once a week all the time!! but I did find a group here in Orlando to figure draw with once a week, so getting back to the discipline.. here are my drawing from this week...5min and 20min sketches, was focusing on structure this week.

there that is..

what a lovely morning in the mountains

Life stories.
collecting adventure is like collecting baseball cards for me.
I love the story telling side of humanity, the ability to take a life changing experience, and put it together in words and mental pictures so that others can experience it nearly as close, and sometimes better than, the original.

Anyway, this is the climactic end to a wild night I spent surviving the night in Big Sur, CA

putting stories to to visuals is a fun challenge, and allows you to exaggerate the feeling in the moment.
Thanks Mr. Anderson, for the challenge, your story next.

Sorry about the picture quality, no scanner...

new stuffff

Todays word is Complacency

My good friend Marc Anderson and I occasionally challenge each other to some ridiculous drawing..this was "illustrating complacency"
And then there's this homo-erotic dragon...its all the chemicals in the water

commissions

Some character designs i have been doing for a couple different projects.

I diddis!

I did a ton of drawings for the production of this short film..
Only a few of my drawings were used in the final piece, I did all the ones depicting the larger Caucasian fella as the "fool"

Where my dogs at?!

some dog Character designs I am working on for a cool bike shop.

illustration project

workin' it through

these are some drawing I am working through on a job...thought I would share.
The top one is a caricature of the writer.

another caricatured court room sketch

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

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