Baby Eng

My buddy Geoff and his wife just had their baby boy. Big congrats going out to the new parents. This is just a quick sketch I did of one of the pictures that they posted online.

Cyn Cummens lesson: Drawing the Lurmen

Star Wars Illustrator Cyn Cummens posted a new "how-to" on Star Wars dot com and I always draw these things. I don't know what a "LURMEN" is, it is in the Clone Wars Saga and I haven't gotten into those shows yet. But If Cyn is going to be teaching something, I am learning it. :)

Pencil Sketch of Mike

A pencil sketch of my friend Mike. About an hour spent on it. We went to school at NAU and there was a reunion of RA's and I wasn't able to make it. They took plenty of pictures and this one just cried to be drawn. I hope he doesn't kill me. LOL

Ricky Henderson on a newspaper

I doddled this on the LA Times last week.

Discover My Favorite Web-Comic!

Check out this comic strip 'Sheldon' at http://www.sheldoncomics.com -- I think you'll like it! New strips are up 7 days a week, and you can read it on the the site, via RSS, or by daily delivery to your e-mail. CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT

This, along with Arlo and Janis are my favorite comics printed these days. I recommend it highly!

Happy Birthday Dave!

MATT WAGNER'S GRENDEL

This is a picture of Matt Wagner's Grendel, I don't read the book, but my buddy loves it. Aside from wondering what I am missing, I kinda like drawing him. This is on toned charcoal paper with black and grey makers and white colored pencil. piece is 9x12

Aspens in Winter

I can finally post this one. This was a gift to my niece who wanted me to draw somethign for her. It is ink on charcoal paper and white colored pencil for the white areas.

Birthday Card

Well if you know someone with a birthday near or on Christmas, you know the drill...No mixing of the Christmas and Birthday gifts...No birthday gifts in Christmas paper...etc.

So this is a card I made for my wife. A Narcissus flower, a December flower. White Coloered pencil and markers.

Big Work finally finished.

Aspen Tree Sketch

Sketch of some Aspen Trees.

I like Aspens, I miss them. They were all over in Flagstaff. I need to figure out how to do leaves. Argh. LOL

Top Ten Albums I could listen to time after time

Top Ten Albums I could listen to time after time

1. Beatles - White Album
2. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
3. Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
4. Gold Rush 79 - Various Artists
5. Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin
6. Van Halen - Fair Warning
7. Amy Grant - Lead Me On
8. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
9. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
10. Depeche Mode - Violator

HAPPY ALL HALLOWS EVE!

More Dia de los Muertos!

Dia de los Muertos

I love me some Day of the Dead art. Dia de los Muertos is some of the most colorful and enjoyable artwork that I have ever seen and I yearn to do more of it. I ripped this one out last night. Hopefully I can do some more. But sadly, color...not one of my best subjects. LOL

Long ass-time. I am back to normal (kinda)

Well, after Comic-Con I finally experienced what is widely known as "Post-Con Depression". I didn't want to see a pencil, much less draw anything for about a month. I had heard other people talk about it, but I had never really experienced it until now. But this Con was different than Cons in the past for me.

Usually at the Con, I would check out Artists Alley and the Small Press area and just get really depressed at the con, instead of afterwards. But that was more a product of seeing all the cool art that was being one and wishing and lamenting that I wasn't do any of it (still). But since I have been drawing this year, the Con was more about connecting with artists that I admired and spoke to on the web and meeting other artists in the same place as I am. And really connecting with the artistic community in a way I was never able to before. So I was on a high during the entire Con. It wasn't until a few days after the Con when the depression set in and...DAMN. That sucks. I didn't want to do anything. I ended up getting caught up on a bunch of Graphic Novels and TPB that I needed to read but never got around to.

After the Con depression went away, I found myself swamped with stuff to do at work. My company (Write Brothers 'makers of Movie Magic Screenwriter & Dramatica') was moving from Glendale back to Burbank (348 E. Olive Ave, suite H). I took way too much on myself and I was stressed to the bone with taking care of the move. After the move, I had to get the network nad internet up and running and with all the little bumps and bugs, it was a difficult time. It looks like we are back to normal and I can relax a bit. So I wanted to get a post up and let people know that I am still here and I will be posting new things. (Thanks to everyone for inquiring, it helped get my off my butt.)

SO ABOUT THE CON

The Con was great from both a business and personal standpoint. We doubled our sales this year and that was awesome. We have some new professional clients, Orson Scott Card, Robert J. Sawyer, Marc Guggenheim...if I am allowed to namedrop.... :) Personally, I made it a point to meet Matt Busch, Katie Cook, Cynthia Cummens, Todd Nauck, David Petersen...I also got to meet some of the Half-Pixel Gang, Dave Kellett (Sheldon) and Scott Kurtz (PVP) these guys are writing some of my favorite web comics right now. They are very cool in person also. I hooked up with some people from drawingboard.org for a sketch jam on Saturday night. It was great to meet everybody, but because we were staying on Coronado Island, I had to leave early to catch the last ferry over.

IN CLOSING

I had a great time at the con and now that things have gotten back to fairly normal, I will be drawing more. So until I post another drawing...Cya

Sketch Dump then off to Comic con!

Okay, these are some of the sketches I have been doing getting ready for comic con. the Hulk, Daredevil Dr. Doom amd my porch (a perspective exercise).

I will be at the Drawingboard.org Sketch Jam saturday night at the Marriott. and in the Gaslamp bars the others nights! LOL

Getting ready for Comic Con!

Well it is that time of year and I am getting ready for Comic Con. I will be working at the Write Brothers booth (#1429), we develop writing softeware. Software for Comic and Movie Scripts, Story Development and Outlining. Please come on by and say hello.

I will also be heading to the drawingboard.org sketch jam Saturday night. I am really looking forward to hooking up with the other artists and really getting into it. I have never been to a sketch jam so it will be a new experience for me and I am really jazzed about it.

Christian Bale - Let's try this again...

Well the second try turned out even worse than the first one. His jaw is way too square, his features are too big for the face. I didn't notice that while I was drawing it. I didn't spend as much time on this one, and I think it shows. I do think the hair turned out better in this one, but that is about the only thing that I like about this one. This was kind of disappointed with this one.

Christian Bale Sketch

I started this sketch and after I got done with the pencils, I knew this didn't even come close. but I went ahead and inked it anyway because I thought it came out as a portrait very well. Almost Robert Downey-like. So, as a Christian Bale sketch it didn't work but as a sketch in general I think it looks pretty good. Remember, I always want to hear what you have to say about the things I post.

One from the past...

This was a piece I did for my wife (fiance' at the time), her name is rose, so I drew her a rose. She liked it so much that she suggested that we use it for our wedding invitations. You could have knocked me down with a feather, I was stunned and elated. It is a piece that I am most proud of and sorry about. About 5-6 years ago the original was ruined by my cats and it was all I could do to have to throw it out. We had no copies of the invitations and I thought it was lost. I had not scanned it at the time. But fortune shone on me and it turns out that my sister had one of the invites and I asked her if I could have it back. It is like finding a lost teddy bear. I scanned it right away. I love this piece but I hope it is not the best thing I ever do...