Thank You Gift

My Little boy just had his 3rd birthday, and the local volunteer fire station was nice enough to set up a tour of the station and all the trucks. As a thank you, I did a pen and ink of their station house. It's 14" x 11" and I framed it up for them. I think I'm going to start talking around town about starting this as a service for some extra cake. I'd like to do our newly remodeled Library next...

Enjoy!

Still more!

I've also been practicing on some comic pages to try and improve and heck, come up with a style. Either way, I'm really enjoying it. This is the first couple pages of my practice piece. The story doesn't necessarily go anywhere now, but it could. I'll probably just use it for a portfolio piece. BTW, the bottom left image on page 2 is being swapped out, it's too weak.

Enjoy!

Back again

Well, school is out for the summer, and I can start posting stuff again. Man I'm lazy! Anyhoo, first up is a special sketch I did for my little buddy. He loves fire trucks (I think all little boys do) and I was in Boston for the HOW design conference (it was awesome! I had never been to a trade show thingee before) and I was taking a break. Outside the conf. center was this really cool old fire house and I thought Bear would love it. So, I busted out the sketchbook and did this:



BTW, I have more cool stuff to post from my sketches, bear with me.

More Character Design!

Ok, here's more of what everyone's been clamoring for! More of my character sketches from my upcoming comic project! Included is further practice with Red, some Rosa ideas, Charlie and a couple of other police officers. I'm still trying to get to a point where I can repeat Red and the others without having them all look like different people.

Enjoy!

Christmas Card

Ok, here comes a flurry of posts! This is a combination Xmas and Moving card I did for a co-worker who had relocated to NYC. She wanted to reference both themes, therefore, Ice Skating, in Central Park! There was also a greeting and address info on the inside.

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Oh my god, I am such a slacker

Hi Everybody! I have been slaving away on school and I haven't posted anything of any substance in forever! Well, you're patience has paid off, included is my favorite pieces from my classes this semester. These are all from my Analysis of Form class, (my other class was Creative Writing) and are charcoal or pen.
I really enjoyed both classes this year, working with charcoal was nerve-wracking. I kept worrying that I would mess it up. In the end tho, I would be tired and happy.

Enjoy!

My Summer Project

Wow, two in one day! This next one is a quick sketch I did at work as a concept pic. This grumpy fella is going to be the main character in my new comic project that I will start this summer. Once I finish the intro for Grym Tidings, which I'm still working on, and there isn't actually all that much left to go. Enjoy!

PS-I've added a few more sketches of the character for updates, and I've started writing this out as well.

School work

Hi All,

Well, it's nice to be back in the flow of things! Here is the rough for my Color class final project. I would post the painting itself, but I need to photograph it because it's too big to scan. I will post it later. Enjoy!

I'm back!

Hello Everybody! I'm back finally, school's over, I got straight A's, and I'm back to post the latest. I will post some interesting stuff from Class (Color & Design) as well, so that will be coming up soon as well. In the meantime, here is a recent commission for my young nephew Matt. He requested a fight scene between a Jedi with a dual-bladed lightsaber, Darth Vader, and a giant, cake-making droid. Without further ado...

Here ya go...

Well, I'm finally posting something again! I'm still overloaded, and digging, but the least I can do is drop something for y'all to look at. Here is the pencils for page 4 of my Grym Tidings WoW comic. I'm just starting the inks so hopefully I will finish that soon inbetween my school and freelance.

Enjoy!

Help!

Sorry everybody! I've been overloaded with my job and school and freelance, that I haven't had a chance to even think about posting anything, let alone creating for enjoyment. I did finish the pencils for page 4 of Grym Tidings, so I will have something to show soon enough. Maybe I will post that here, along with page 3, and save the other site for the finished pages. Sound good! See you soon!

New Illustration from Work

Hi all, I've been busy plugging away with my freelance project(will post examples after I've finished) and my comic, as well as starting school last week! To my surprise, my day job produced the most interesting work of the past week! I was given a job to produce a full color sponsor ad for a charity ball and they asked for one of our run of the mill photo ads with the logo and a blurb about how supportive we are, and I had an idea for something more. Well, here's the illo alone, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to reproduce the complete ad, but there is some fancy cursive text in the upper right, with the logos just beneath, in white.

Enjoy!

Check it out!

Hey Kids, feel free to hop over to my Grym Tidings site for the exciting page 3 of the saga!(link to the right) Yes, yes, I know it's been months since I finished page 2, but how about spending less time complaining and more time reading? Enjoy!!

Next stop: Norway!

I've always had a fondness for the Scandinavian Stave Churches so we decided to visit the oldest existing church up here in Norway. Strange, even tho it had already snowed in Switzerland, we enjoyed a wonderful spring-like atmosphere in Norway. Go figure. Anyhoo, here's the sketch!!

Another sketch from my world travels!

Boy oh boy, I sure love jetting off to new locales for sketch inspiration! Instead of Marseilles I decided to hop over to Switzerland for my latest subject. Look! It snowed there! Where will I go today?? Perhaps the Far East, Scandinavia? hmm...

Visit to Paris

Hi all, on a recent "visit" to the city of lights, I paused to make this marker sketch of a caberet in Montmartre. spent about a half an hour there, then moved on. Tomorrow, I'll download a picture of Marseille and sketch... uh oh. Well, enjoy!

A Special Gift...

Hi all, recently my Wife asked me to draw her up a custom "jigsaw puzzle" greeting card for a co-worker. She originally wanted to give her an actual jigsaw puzzle featuring an Oompa Loompa, but I guess it's hard to find a jigsaw puzzle featuring a 30 year old movie character. Anyhoo, here is my finished card. Done in pencil, pen and markers. After I completed it and was totally relieved I didn't make any blobs or mistakes, I really F'ed it up by spraying it with some permanent sprayfix. Needless to say, the pen bled everywhere giving it a permanent fuzzy appearance. I... was... pissed. I don't know what I was thinking, I guess it was force of habit. The markers didn't run, just the pen I did the basic outlines with. Well, whatever, enjoy!

Wow!

How's this for quick turnaround! Right after I posted my Superman pic(I had worked on that on and off for a week) I sat down with a new idea for another color study I had gotten from some wrapping paper I saw at work. Anyhoo, I always liked maroon and blue together(that's the combo on the wrapping paper) and the first thing that came to me was swaying palm trees against a blueblue sky with crystal clear waters... "sigh". Back to the pic! Anyway, I sat down and banged this out in an hour and a half. All that practice is starting to payoff!

Hey, Superman!

Hello helloo! I'm back again with another exciting practice image. This time I was inspired by the orange glow at sunset out my office building window, so what would be the best thing to see outside a high office window? Superman of course.

Enjoy!

Pages from the sketchbook

Hi all! Here are some pics from my sketchbook that I would like to share. A page of good assorted stuff, and a sketch of the Merritt parkway I did at the doctor's office. Hey! There is even a selfportrait included. Also, I did another colored pencil jobbie of my little tree dude.

Enjoy!