Paper & pen

Some pen drawings I've done recently. The first is from the Meditations that I did earlier this month. The second is based on the trans-dimensional water monster in the doctored landscape painting from November.

Sketchbook drawings.

And these four drawings are from CD covers that I created for my boss. If he listens to the CDs, these are on the inside cover. The outside has the song/record/band information.

Sweet Things

Sweet moments from waking and dreaming life.

Pen and ink on paper.

Daily Drawings 9/14 & 9/15

Brown ink wash on watercolor paper.

Venturing into the world of drawing without sketching. Pen on paper.

Daily Drawing 9.12

Brown ink wash.

New Mantra

Late summer resolution.

Getting Back to It

Our first time camping several years ago was met with the realization that neither of us knew how to build a fire. We have since learned.

I then decided to draw people faces because I am admittedly horrible at them.

And a self-portrait for good measure.

I'm currently working on a big project that has sort of come in and out of my life periodically. I've finally decided the shape it will take form in: graphic novel. It is a story that I've been fiddling around with here and there, whittling and carving it until it represents it's true essence. The written portion is still very much in beta, in need of a great deal of tweaking so that it doesn't sound like a fifth-grader wrote it. I am hoping to post these in two-page increments so as to encourage myself to keep going. So, without further ado: the story.

I've uploaded them larger than I normally do so that the text is readable.

Physical Graffiti

After having done so many digital collages I decided it was high time to do a physical collage. Here are a couple of the experiments.

And I worked on some ink and white gouache illustrations.

Feelings

Also, I decided to verify that I can still draw from life. Wood shavings have interesting shapes.

In the Mean Time

Two more digital collages.

Gouache pattern studies.

Diptychs

Playing with contrast and pattern.





And a happy mother's day to you!

Cold Hard Cache

I was lucky enough to get a scanner as a graduation gift and have finally been able to make images of my art and doodling (images?). I went through my past illustrations and things that I've created in the past six years or so, being a little picky but not exceptionally picky. Anyways, check out this giant backlog of my work!

Here is what I did for my senior project in high school. Circa 2005. Watercolor and ink on cold press watercolor paper.








And two linework pieces. Ink on bristol board.

2008


2009


Two CD jackets that I illustrated for a friend (these are not, in any way, the official jackets for these albums, they are my own creation). Both are ink on bristol board.

2010



And these are a portion of the illustrations I've been working on lately. I was told my computer comes with a particular photo stitching software which it does: for PC. And I don't know anyone who owns a PC, let alone myself. I didn't realize this was conditional. Anyways, I'm trying to rectify this situation because I can't just have partially recorded and archived images.

2011



Computers are still a learning process. I feel similarly about computers as I do sports: Some people are really good at them, I am not. So these things take some time to work out the kinks. At any rate, this is a start.

Illustrations

I have finally had some time on my hands to work on illustrating, something I've been wanting to do since I graduated high school. And after years of 3-d art making I have finally come back to where I've always wanted to be: graphic illustrations.

These are two pages I've done wherein I've been trying to figure out how to ink properly, testing layouts and telling a story in the most basic way.

22 January 2011



With detail.



25 January 2011



With detail.




I'm going to keep working on more test pages and eventually I will repost with scanned images instead of photographed images. I've been simply ecstatic to be learning so much just from trial and error.