It's Christmas Time

I was asked to make new christmas demos for the stand for the upcoming season. I hung this one up at one of the stands, and a day or two later it just disappeared. Good thing I took a picture of it! Enjoy!

Portrait

Here is a portrait I attempted of my late grandmother. I still have a lot to learn about painting and portraits. I feel on this one I started out pretty good and kind of got lost as I went along. But I learned a few things along the way. This one was done in acrylic on canvas. If you want to see some really inspiring acrylic work, check out my link to Kruger's blog on the right. I spent a lot of time looking at that for motivation. I have a long way to go, but I'm enjoying the process.

Full Sketchbook

I don't really know why, but for some reason, I really like throwing away a sketchbook once I have filled it up. Probably because its mostly filled with scribbley crap. Unfortunately, in doing so I also end up losing a few good sketches. But since I have a blog now, I figured I could just scan the stuff I like and post it here. Enjoy!

Some practice

Here is a digital sketch of the family dog. (approx 1.5 hours) Still needs more work.

Here is a watercolor practice of that House guy for Diluc. Also more work needed.

Convention Caricatures

I love this one because it was done during the speed competition. It probably was drawn in all of about 5 to 10 seconds and you can still tell its me!


I think this one really captures my personality.


This one is by the talented Sam Gorrie. I must confess I really wanted her to draw me this year. This one was drawn on a tiny one inch button you can wear.


I dare anyone to stare at this one and NOT get creeped out.


Drawn by my good friend Chris Metzger. Nobody talks to him because he's weird and looks scary.




This one is one of my favorites. Jeremy Townsend is one of the few caricature artists who's drawings make me laugh until my sides hurt.



Here are some caricatures I got from the NCN Convention. This was the first caricature convention I went to that wasn't in Orlando (all the way in Reno, in fact) and I had a great time. I have a bunch of pictures of my artwork and work from my favorite artists and I promise to post those soon. Sorry that I haven't posted anything for such a long time, but I just got back from visiting friends in L.A. Check back soon though for more convention pics and such. Thanks to everyone who drew me.

Zoo sketching

The other day my friends and I went to the zoo to do some sketching.
And heres another watercolor practice for good measure. They look like me in case you didn't know.

Playing with watercolor

I haven't touched watercolor in a long time, so I tried to pick it up again. Mostly I've been playing with a few mediums to see what I want to take with me to the upcoming NCN Convention. These I drew from stills from the movie The Quick and the Dead. (the one directed by Sam Raimi)

"That guy"

Gene Hackman

I put this sketch in here because I think I the likeness is slightly better in the pencil sketch and I cant figure out why. I think later on I'll try this one again and see if i can develop it further. (I know I always say that and hardly ever follow through)

Hillary

Not much done to it since last time. Just some tweak and polish to finish it up.

Long Time No See

Well it's been waaaay too long since I've posted anything and I'm sorry. I haven't really done anything finished in a long time, which is my ongoing struggle as an artist. My usual excuse is that summer has been busy for me at the park, but summer is over now and I'll be spending more time getting myself ramped up for the NCN Caricature convention. If you've never heard of it, its basically a huge week long draw-fest for caricature artists all over the world. Go check it out!

In the meantime here's some stuff to look at. First off are some caricature speedpaintings I did to post on the NCN forum. Basically its an exercise where you digitally paint a caricature of someone from scratch in a very limited time. You just time yourself for an hour or half an hour or whatever and just try to get as much done as you can in that time. Most of the other artists' posts are way more finished looking than mine, but thats a good thing because it gives me something to work towards.

Michael Douglas


Robbie Williams


And since I love drawing cars so much and want so desperately to get good at it, here are some sketches I did today. I hope to give some color to these at some point.

This one is my Focus SVT. Thats my baby.

And this is an awesome car I saw in a parking lot one day.
And here is another one I started today. A work in progress of Hillary for my website.


Thats all for now. I promise to be better about updating this thing. Thanks for being patient in the meantime.

Some acrylic practice

Here is a caricature of actor Keith David that I've been working on. I actually started this a few weeks ago, but I got sidetracked by some other projects (some art projects and some home projects). One of the few things I've ever done in acrylic. I will repost when I get around to finishing this one.

This is a park sketch I did of Ben Stein. I started a few more exaggerated attempts at his face, but none of them even came close to a likeness. Sometimes I have a hard time with faces that should be really easy.