Posterize me

You know how when Dwayne Wade posterizes some fool, everyone's like "OOOOOH, WHAT!? WHAT?!" Thats kind of what I'm lookin' for. A little action. Mix it up folks! Comment on something. I've seen people are blowin' up my profile, 74 views, so I know people are looking around! Leave a little love.

Lights and Shadows

I don't like simple pencil drawings in my sketch books, becuase I sometimes feel like I've wasted perfectly good paper on something thats incomplete. Even if they're just there for me to work on technique, forms, contours, etc. I like putting value on drawings and set a mood, feeling, whatever. Thats something I actively try to work on.. Check 'em out:



I tried to tackle our leather couch. It turned out alright for a sketch. Then I had to put a sweet karate chopping hand in there for some action!

Palm Trees and Pooches

A good friend of ours is in Iraq, and actually we all (my roomates and I) collectively have several friends in the middle east, engaging in goodness knows what kind of dangerous activities. I think about those men and women quite a bit. One of our friends has a really cool looking sheppard and I've done a couple quick sketches of him before. This is a palm tree, and the aforementioned pooch.

Caricatures

A long time ago, I wanted to be a caricature artist at a theme park back home in Virginia. I really wish I had someone push me to follow through on that desire. Who knows where my drawing could be if it weren't for that bad decision. Oh, well. I was 13 years old, had never worked a day in my life and was scared of criticism. I was miserable then at drawing as I am now..... I've got a couple sports caricatures below. Can you name either person? One plays tackle football the other, hoops. One is colligate athlete, the other a professional.

One guy sports a thin moustache, the other is often told he "can't win the big game."

Picture un:


Any ideas. These are easy.

Picture deux:

"What Mamma Don't Allow"

Every once-in-a-while I'll get wrapped around the axle with a certain idea. Right now I'm on a "cowboys" kick. No, not the miserable football team from Dallas, the cool kind that rode dustyr roads out west, slept under the stars, roasted stuff over fires, and made their own jerky.



While running this past week I got the idea for a little music video involving cowboys, and guitarists and a big blank, white stage. Its a random idea at the moment, but the drawing above and the one below are sort of my thoughts mental sketches to paper. Neither of which came out right, and I'll have to get back on it soon.



MAN! Guitars at an angle are difficult to draw. Especially guitars with a cut away for them high-note-finger pickin' tunes. Anyways, the more I draw the more I realized how flawed alot of my mechanics and fundamentals are. Perspective, anatomy, proportion, volume, whatever. It took me several iterations to get an image of a guy holding a guitar while (middle), that I thought somewhat, kind of, looked "right." I do like the tapping pants on the far left though. Thats black denim, not leather. This is the wild west, not Aeon Flux.

Fumeur avec une "soul patch."

I've never been able to grow a Flavor Saver soul patch, and I'm not sure I want to. If I did though I'd probably dye it some weird color, like Red, or Green. Also, I'm probably way behind on this, but there's a little web-application floating around, that someone wrote, that allows you to doodle in a browser, and then save the image in a post. I've no idea what I did wrong, but I was unable to post the image correctly, so I pulled down a screen capture and saved it in photoshop.

These little drawing / posting applications are called Oekaki BBS boards. They're huge overseas.... apparently..

Read more:

Oekaki in Japanese means scribble, or doodle: Wiki "Oekaki"

Oekaki central

I'm working on understanding more about how to get one of these things up and running. Its fairly crude at this point, but its really cool to see how far some folks push these little drawings.

Word up.

Brain Drain

Sometimes I have a really hard time getting into my sketchbook and just flushing all the crud from my brain. An optimal time for this is usually right after dinner after a boring day at work. The sugars from the food I had at dinner and the first signs of the body shutting down are a perfect time for my mind to wander. Here are some random pictures from a sketchbook..... there are a couple pictures from a former Sheridan artist that I particularly like.


I've got an unusual facination with hands, and I tend to try and draw them alot. The more I draw them the more I respect them. I think it is just an odd and interesting configuration of bones, joints, muscle groups and such, that help people with their daily activities, more than most* really recognize.