Drawing Jam: Rachel Dashae

Did this for the September Drawing Jam of model Rachel Dashae. Did this really to take a creative break from some mundane work I've been doing lately. Didn't have much time to work on this, but I was pretty happy with how it came out. Now back to work.

Dale Gas

I was recently commisioned by my brother and his softball team to come up with their team logo. Their team is called Dale Gas - the literal translation is "give it gas" but is a more acurately translated into the slag "step on it". Naturally I thought of some of the classic hot rod guys like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth for inspiration, and though the car design is about 90% borrowed form Mr. Roth, the gnarly one-eyed baseball-headed bat-totin' monster is 100% me.

Drawing Jam: Hayden Panettiere

This was done for the December Drawing Jam over at The Drawing Board (I know it's almost April, so sue me). I would like to revisit this piece and maybe do a digital inking, as brush pens are still kinda new to me....and her hands need work, I know.

Cafe Sketches

Some cafe sketches from the past couple of weeks

Memery Sketch part Deux

Went out with Patrick again yesterday to the Fox Hills Mall for some more lunchtime sketching fun. Spotted this older lady with a crazy hair-do walking rather slowly with a walking cane gettin a cup o' joe...she was a perfect subject for our memory sketch. Here is my take.

Since I have to get back to working right after my lunch break, what I like to do to get as much of the details fresh in my memory down on paper is try to get some quick roughs done, then take those home and do a finished piece on my own time. Here are some of my roughs for her.

Memory Sketch excersise

My friend Patrick Morgan and I went out to sketch some people on our lunch break, and though the pickins were pretty slim, we spotted this lady that was begging to be drawn...so we decided to take a mental snap shot of her and use her as our memory sketch subject.

I'll add colors soon, hopefully before the end of the week.

Life Drawing 'Cowboy'

Some life drawings I did last night, the model dressed up as a cowboy and got into character with some great poses. I had fun with these.

More meeting fun

The Joker

Here's a sketch I did of Heath Ledger's Joker. What a phenomenal performance he gave, truly inspiring...I had a Joker-esue grin on my face every second he was on the screen. It will be interesting to see anybody try to top his performance.

Here's the pencils

Meeting Sketch dump

Heres a huge dump of sketches done during meetings at work...Im pretty sure this is what meetings are for, though I could be worng.

Drawing Jam: Miranda Kerr

I did this for drawingboard.org 's March Drawing Jam. The model is Miranda Kerr of Victoria's Secret.

Classic Dames

Here's a few 'dames' I did from photo ref...they were actresses from the black & white Hollywood days, though I couldn't tell you who they are. Every once in a while a group of us at work get togther and draw from these old Hollywood pics...you just dont see faces like these anymore, truly classics.

Holiday Card

Well, it's December and you know what that means...SANTA CLAUSE'S BIRTHDAY IS COMMING!!! Good ol' St. Nick, the Patron Saint of falling into debt. Well, this is the first X-mas card I've ever designed, I actually did it for a contest my company was holding...and though I didn't win, I had a lot of fun doing it. The style is definately inspired by a bunch of illustrators I've been looking at for inspiration lately, though I tried not to make it a complete rip-off.

Jury Doodie was funnn!!! Well, not really...but I tried to make the most of my time sitting around waiting.

A bunch cafe sketches I hadn't gotten around to scanning until now.

Jimi Hendrix. Drew these on small 3x5 inch pieces of paper, thought I'd post em. Not my favorite drawing, but I havnt posted in a while so I figured...what the hey?

The Caricature(s) on the bottom right is a of a professional caricaturist named Joe Bluhm. I got to meet the guy at this year's Comic Con and bought his awesome book Rejects, a great book of caricatures and the stories of how his drawings were rejected by his clients because they were so...what's the word...horrifying? In all honesty, they are all great and the people who rejected them must have no idea what a real caricature is and were probably expecting a cute-icature or something lame. Anyways, as I bought the book, he asked me if I wanted it personalized...I said "sure!" Then he bagan drawing me right then and there, kind of caught me off guard. So this is what he drew:

A good likeness if you ask me (and anybody who knows me), but not nearly as extreme as what you will find in the book. Pick it up if you get the chance...you'll get a good laugh out of it.

Drew these while watching TV one night. That's supposed to be Jewel on the top left, 2 versions of MSNBC'sNancy Grace on the bottom left, a guest on Nancy Grace's show on the far right, and some guitarist for some band top middle.

Here's my attempt at Terry O'Quinn from Lost. I don't watch the show so I don't know if I captured his likeness well or not. Anywho, I did this for an acquaintance of mine's Caricature Challenge over at http://diegolucia.com.ar/diluc/terry.html Working on this made me realize I really need to do more color pieces...I need tons of help in that department, maybe take a digital paint class or something.























Here's the sketches...
For shits & giggles...

More faces...tried a few different styles with this batch.