Komeda!

This piece of was a continuation of a project that I gave myself a few years ago, in which I made illustrations inspired by my iPod playlists. This is from my recent obsession with Swede-pop band Komeda. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the process throughout.

Thanks for looking!

Life Drawing and WIP Update

Some drawings from last night's session, and a quick snap of the piece from my last post before I take it to Photoshop. More later:)

Work In Progress

A new piece in progress. I've got some value issues to resolve and a few more touches to add. More to come soon.

Sketchbook & Le Pens

Some recent sketchbook pages. It's been a lot of fun playing with Le Pen markers again.

Life Drawing

These are from last night's figure drawing session at MCA. This week was a lot of fun, and I'm improving with every session. There's still some issues (proportion, forshortening) to be resolved, but most of the enjoyment comes from practicing. It also helps to be next to people that are good at this stuff :P. More from next week's session if I don't post anything between now and then.

Drizzle Drawing

Yesterday saw fellow (hardcore) winter doodler John Lee and myself at the Memphis Zoo, braving drizzle and rain to draw anything that was crazy enough to be out in the cold with us. I'll spare you the REALLY bad drawings that came from numb hands and soaked pages and show a couple of the nicer ones from the trip.

Otomo's Bike

This was a piece I did as an homage to one of my favorite animated films of all time. More than two decades after its theatrical release, it's still a jaw dropper.

Amok Time BFF

This is a recently finished piece inspired equally by a very special moment in television history and a YouTube masterpiece.

The initial sketch

Preparing to transfer the drawing to cold press illustration board via lots of friggin' graphite on the back of the sketch.

Some of the tedious first steps. the cruddy white areas in the first picture are masked off areas made with artists tape and an X-acto knife. The dark area in the second picture is my shadow looming over the shot...

Workspace clutter! Includes work in progress, recently fixed netbook, drawing supplies, rough sketches, value studies, and etc. And I do mean ETC.

Finished ink drawing ready to be scanned and touched up in Photoshop.

Birds and Shoppers

Some sketches from the Memphis Zoo and from my part-time job. My buddy John has a nice post with sketches from the same zoo visit.

Selected Sketchbook Entries from December

Proposed Skateboard Deck

I recently made this for a friendly local skate company. Putting it together was an epic ten-scan endeavor that, after some clean up and some quick color editing, amounts to what you see below:

The horribly pixelated red line is an estimate of the board's shape and orientation, just to give the drawing some context.

Statue Heads

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