wyvern

I remember drawing a lot as a kid and then finding out about wyverns; dragon's with no arms, only 2 legs and wings. this was such a relief, since at the time i was really struggling making arms and wings work together.

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some pencil doodles

a color script

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red riding hood in the city

quickie cowboy

house party drawings

i made up the value for that one morning after,

color test

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!

scribbles

foundation man

Here is a character design idea from a great series of books by asimov, called the foundation series. In the book the characters are hardly described, and only as wearing the most simple gray neutrals.I had an idea of a guy covered in all kinds of muted grey fabrics . The character is a guy called Hober Mallow. i think the book he's in is called Foundation and Empire. the only part described in the book is the personal force shield that he wears around his neck which is described as a walnut or something like that....

... oh and here is a unicorn i drew last night, under pressure

playing in photoshop with my scribbles again...

3 aliens, i was trying to think more about value and also sat. vs muted

3 doodles

2 doodles

back again

cowboy stuff - color part 2

som more