1971 - In Progress

Last time I was at my grandmother's house in Pennsylvania, I found an awesome photo of my uncle Jonathan with one of his motorcycles back in 1971. Today I started doing an illustration based on that photo. The first step, which you see here, involved drawing with brown pencil and painting with ink washes. The next step will be digital painting. This picture measures at 18" x 24".

Birthday Card

I made this birthday card for Jeff, who's turning 26 today. He's a fan of Ratatouille.

More Lost Art

Here's another Lost character portrait. I've been wanting to draw Locke for a while now because not only is he a really interesting character, but his facial features are just a lot of fun. His bald head and wrinkly eyes are just asking to be drawn. Also on my "I want to draw list" of Lost characters (in no particular order) are Desmond, Hurley, Rousseau, Juliet, and Sayid. As before, I drew this with brown and white pencil on brown toned paper and then did all of the coloring in photoshop with my tablet. More of my Lost related art can be found right here.

Lost Character Art

Basically I am terribly excited that Lost is back on TV now. I have waaaay too much fun watching that show and coming up with theories to explain what's going on (for those who do the same, Lostpedia is completely addictive). I've drawn Sawyer and Charlie before, so tonight I thought I'd add Jack and Kate to the illustration roster. I'm not a huge Jack fan, but I like his picture the best out of these two. Both of these were drawn with brown and white pencil on brown paper, and then I did the rest of the coloring in Photoshop with my tablet.

Klimt Girl

I was cleaning up some old papers tonight and I found this demo that I had done for the children's art class I taught over the summer. This was from the day that they learned a little bit about Klimt and got to play around with painting using patterns and gold paint like he did.

Superman

Just a quick little Superman sketch done with ink and watercolor.

Arctic Queen

First completed picture of the new year!

I designed this picture to use for my 2007 holiday card. It took me a while to get it done (the card is actually a bit late being mailed out), but I'm happy with the final product. I saved progress images for this, so I'll be uploading a mini-tutorial of sorts eventually. The fairy tale East O' the Sun, West O' the Moon was my inspiration for this picture.

Wallpaper sized versions of this picture can be downloaded right here through my deviantArt gallery.

Prints of this picture are available right here through my print shop.

Figure Drawing

I went to a figure drawing session the other day for the first time in probably about four years. I felt incredibly rusty but it felt good to be trying my hand at live figure drawing again. I really need to get out and do that more often.