Tuesday, March 25, 2008

marker monster


here is a fish monster man i doodled on the side of some notes

black prismacolor pencil,
blue crayola pencil
C3 copic marker
C7 copic marker
W5 copic marker
R27 (cad red) copic marker
orange crayola marker
lime green prisma color marker
rose pale prisma color marker
deco orange prisma color marker
and a white out pen

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

drawings


this was a 50 percent warm grey copic marker and a black colored pencil, those markers are fantastic, definetly recomend







thanks!

Friday, March 07, 2008

house party drawings


i made up the value for that one morning after,

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

the sheriff


The colors are influenced from an inspirational talk given by Robert Kondo where I was shown the techniques of japanese master illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi. The spots on the shirt are from a memory i had of a class with Barbara Bradley. She is a fantastic teacher who taught at my school for fifty years, one day in her class we were drawing cowboys. She came over and told me my drawing would be better if i added a pattern to the cowboys shirt, since thats how they had them, showing me a Tom Lovell illustration as an example. So i did, and it was better. i didn't know why then, and i don't know why now, sometimes things just work.

and the sketch, i think its interesting to show since it is totally unrelated to the value plan i ended up going with.



sometimes i feel like my role in a drawing is as a negotiator or caretaker for the transition of dead/blank empty page into awesome lifeform/drawing. it's really fun. However sometimes i get so absorbed in the zen state of drawing that i get lazy with the thinking analytical part, and problems emerge.

anyway enough metaphysical talk, these are all problematic drawings, but i like em anyway




thanks for looking!