Sketch Of The Day

Playing Catch up!!!

2012-02-01T09:51:00.002-05:00

Ok so I did not draw at sketchy last night, but I am sure I will draw from some of the photos I took for the event!! It was amazing. But in the mean time, here are some old sketchy drawings I have not posted.

Kobolds Ate My Baby

2012-01-24T22:45:00.002-05:00

Little sketch made during a night playing Kobolds Ate My Baby. Sure it's crazy sounding but it's a crazy game. Yes it's real, I didn't just make it up!

Sam I am

2012-01-19T15:59:00.002-05:00

Starting to feel a little like Sam I am at the end of the book when it comes to working with the new Illustrator. Some day I'll be able to do this well with regular ink but until then this will have to suffice.

stepping out!

2012-01-09T22:38:00.002-05:00

Getting to do some drawing for a client from the age of Swing! Having some fun but I think this guy kinda looks like the Big Bopper.

2011-12-25T12:36:00.001-05:00

Emmet Otter

Wendell Porcupine

From my favorite Christmas special. Merry Christmas everyone!

Very Naughty List

2011-12-15T13:27:00.002-05:00

2011-12-08T08:39:00.000-05:00

Squeel Latrec 2

2011-12-07T18:36:00.002-05:00

It's a bit lazy of me I know but I thought I would share step 2 of this piece. Finally put it on clayboard, transferred the figure with graphite paper worked up the fan in vector and transferred it down via xerox transfer. Really happy with the transfer and if the piece turns out crappy at least I will have this record of when it was OK.

Mr. Green

2011-11-28T15:16:00.002-05:00

Not long ago while hanging out at the house of some good friends and I some of the greatest color theory dropped on me! My friend said when she was a kid she had connected personalities with each color in the crayola box. For instance, Green is very bookish, possibly even nerdy and wears glasses. I thought this was absolutely brilliant so I had to do a color portrait of the one I could remember the best. here ya go, Mr. Green.

Kermie!

2011-11-25T21:39:00.003-05:00

I have no idea why it took me so long to draw Kermit. I got the idea while watching the new Muppet movie (which is great btw). I think I may need to do some more Muppets,

!El Santa!

2011-11-23T18:13:00.000-05:00

2011-11-18T08:18:00.001-05:00

ThingFish OR other things you can do with clayboard

2011-11-17T19:56:00.000-05:00

A tiny study for a logo I am working on.....study for technique not subject matter. The thing is from Frank Zappa's Thingfish. Great little Ampersand clayboard base scratchboard that I got in trial size. Love it! So much better than the paper scratchboard. No drags on your line.

2011-11-10T16:05:00.002-05:00

Annie and Frank

2011-10-21T11:34:00.000-04:00

Finally landed on a design.

Fun with the latest sketchbook pro app

2011-10-21T00:25:00.001-04:00

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2011-10-20T09:30:00.001-04:00

A mess of feathers

2011-10-19T14:00:00.000-04:00

That you Blip?

2011-10-18T09:47:00.000-04:00

2011-10-18T09:35:00.001-04:00

iPad sketches

2011-10-18T00:58:00.001-04:00

It has been awhile but plying with sketchbook pro again was fun!

bedouinner!

2011-10-17T17:37:00.002-04:00

More fun... finding out if I want to have a movie on and draw it has to be something I really do not care about... in this case Prince of Persia... not so good. But I am happy with the drawing. Cartooning Danielle as a bedouin assign!

A Riot of drawing implements

2011-10-17T12:51:00.003-04:00

This Saturday was Cleveland's FIRST Pencil Riot! Group of Artists, a few models and and a couple streets full of unsuspecting Pubs and Taverns. Much fun was had, some great drawing were done and the denizens of Cleveland were exposed to some of the area's best Artists.
We were exposed to some of the more interesting if not energetic of Cleveland's gentle folk. It will be a long time till I forget the guy I shall call Randy Crider's Cheerleader. The guy and his boon companions were OVERJOYED to find Randy employing his vast talents at the ABC Tavern. Pictures were taken, backs were happily slapped and I am pretty sure some Facebooks were updated with some amazing drawings. Much fun was had by all.
By the way, if you guys haven't checked out Randy's Blog you should do so, the man pushes a mean pencil! Here's a link!

2011-10-13T15:07:00.001-04:00

Zombie or........

2011-10-11T11:29:00.002-04:00

dairy aficionado? Yup, my sharpie paint marker decided to go above and beyond and start making paint quantity decisions.
Regardless, tis the season for some zombies, fa la la la la

Danielle the Barbarian!

2011-10-07T14:16:00.002-04:00

Watching Conan and looking at Frazetta.... What else could I possibly draw! Also trying to push perpotions as of late. More cartoony.

Horus' other eye

2011-10-05T23:51:00.002-04:00

If you have ever seen a dollar bill or are part of a secret society then you know of the "All seeing eye of Horus" but did you know Horus had another eye? "The uninterested, uncaring eye of Horus" is rarely seen on the hawk headed god for most hieroglyphics figures are commonly shown in profile. Good thing too as you can see from the depiction above.
It's a fact! (that I just made up)

Why Schlitzee! What a beautiful dress you have!

2011-10-04T12:56:00.001-04:00

Squeel Latrec

2011-09-23T17:49:00.002-04:00

One of the not used Speakeasy event sketches I'm working up to a final.

Catch up. Here are some sketches from the past month

2011-09-20T16:40:00.003-04:00

Just playing around with some new styles, and white paint markers.
One is from Dr. Sketchy with Fever Blister. One is a night of Dr. Sketchy with the girls at home. Rosie wanted to run a D.r sketchy with her stuffed animals and plush sushi, the others are just made up fun!

Flock of faces

2011-09-15T12:31:00.002-04:00

Working on a character design for a friend's novel. Soooooo different designing a human cause when you are wrong, boy are you wrong! Don't know how much I can divulge of the character but suffice it to say she goes from ho hum drone to awesome in the course of the story. My models: Felecia Day, Mariska Hargitay, Rikki Lindhome, Tina Fey, Gabrielle Anwar, Kristine Wiig, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy and our regular bartender at the Beachland whose name escapes me. OH and there is a talking rabbit involved.

my favorite of the bunch.

Tattoos concepts for friends

2011-09-14T16:16:00.001-04:00

2011-09-08T08:22:00.000-04:00

been a while (again)

2011-09-01T11:41:00.001-04:00

hello.

New Dove

2011-08-09T16:08:00.002-04:00

Lil' character from a fine set of young adult books I've had the pleasure to illustrate. Bit of an update from a post a while back called "the creature".

Still busy

2011-08-08T16:20:00.002-04:00

Couple of sketch pages from not too long ago. First Conan and Second ol' Kev Smith's Ranger Danger.

Lil clip from the 3rd of the Wynnewood maps. Had to put this monster in there.

2011-07-21T08:16:00.000-04:00

Henry 1 Min

2011-07-19T19:22:00.001-04:00

2011-07-19T14:53:00.000-04:00

been a while

2011-07-14T09:29:00.001-04:00

2011-07-12T16:07:00.003-04:00

We've all been crazy busy lately so I figured it was high time that I posted something.
Sketch from a sketch from Dr. Sketchy messing around when the Cable guy was fixing my internet connection. Not a great likeness, can't say I like the drawing that much but there are parts I like.

Quick sketch from my "vacation" of one of the newest members of my family. She kinda reminds me of Cindy Lu Who with the most varied facial expressions I think I've seen on anyone, ever!

Who's a teddy bear?

2011-06-14T16:44:00.002-04:00

Messing around on some recycled, toned paper. Feels a bit like drawing on the construction paper I use to get in Kindergarten.

Had a to take a break today

2011-06-10T16:08:00.002-04:00

I have ben drawing for projects all day! Awesome... Infact I am trying to draw way more! So I cannot post the design work, but I took a slight break and watched this video about an Australian Spider. So I drew from the video.

2011-06-08T10:58:00.001-04:00

From Dr Sketchy Last night. I have made a resolution to start drawing again. I have been off the train for too long!

2011-05-26T15:41:00.001-04:00

What I've been up to

2011-05-21T15:14:00.003-04:00

Part of an illustration for a client that came from a sketch from a Dr. Sketchy event. What have you guys been up to?

Got Tilk?

2011-05-11T12:20:00.001-04:00

This can only be on blue, lined paper.

Shut it Frank

2011-05-04T12:19:00.001-04:00

Starting some work on character design. Coming around but perhaps too much Felicia Day.

The Big Ragu

2011-04-26T12:54:00.000-04:00

He is the angriest of Berts.

2011-04-18T16:24:00.000-04:00

Leprechauns aren't real either, sorry.

2011-04-15T09:28:00.009-04:00

What if I were to tell you a story about a father that dowsed his children in gasoline and set them on fire for being disobedient? All while saying that he dearly loved them.

You would probably think that he must be either insane or the world's most incredibly sick monster, right?

So why does everyone seem OK with a God that promises the same (and for all eternity) for any who don't get with his program?

Sorry, living here in Kansas surrounded by zealots and the fear-mongers that corral them is really getting to me. Between the creationist pseudo-science in the class room, the pro-life insanity, the churches that protest veteran's funerals... I swear, the Christian version of the Taliban will start here. I hate you Kansas.

Of course reading some Christopher Hitchens may be stoking my ire a bit.

Holy men

2011-03-31T08:50:00.005-04:00

This is a Mystic of Naru. They are the seers of the third eye. The Mystics of Naru believe that to see the world as it truly is and how it's physical and spiritual planes relate one must blind their dominate eye, thus allowing their 3rd eye (or mind's eye) to open fully.

This is a Vicor of Gourmand. The followers of Gourmand believe that the world will end when it is devoured by the All Consuming Mouth of Gourmand. Thousands of years after the religion had been lost and all memory of Gourmand had faded the prophesies rang true when the Large Hadron Collider created a black hole on December 21, 2012 consuming the known universe.

2011-03-30T13:27:00.000-04:00

Ghostface McGee

2011-03-29T11:48:00.001-04:00

Grundy's school pic

2011-03-28T14:31:00.003-04:00

and

Whoever this is.

The loves of Grundy

2011-03-25T12:05:00.000-04:00

Betty's bubble

2011-03-17T10:11:00.006-04:00

This is Betty.

Betty carries all her hopes, dreams, and optimistic naivety in a shiny bubble above her head.

One day a mean boy will burst Betty's bubble.

What will become of Betty?

GRATS GUYS!

2011-03-15T15:19:00.000-04:00

BEHOLD The Hillbilly Whisper!!

2011-03-15T14:07:00.002-04:00

Pulp Comic Hero from parts unknown! With his armor of mysterious powers and his ability to control the minds of usually rational men the Hillbilly Whisper embarks on an unending quest for the truth! (thanks Jen for leaving out the -er).

Jumped in the river and what did I see?

2011-03-10T12:34:00.002-05:00

Love this song

Javert

2011-03-08T15:21:00.003-05:00

Possibly my favorite character from Les Miserables. Sure, I can empathize the hell out of Jean Vajean but Javert is downright pitiful. I don't know of any other character you ever get to see deal with a fundamental change in reality and weigh this new reality against the sum of his life until then. Life didn't just give him lemons it gave him mutant, talking lemons, how the hell do you deal with that?!?

2011-03-01T15:36:00.000-05:00

A Dryad in her seedling's root ball.

HIPPO!

2011-02-21T15:42:00.001-05:00

Inspired by on of my favorite sculptures decorated by the lovely Jason!

2011-02-16T15:48:00.002-05:00

good ol' indigo prismacolor

YANG

2011-02-11T16:27:00.002-05:00

A little counter balance for all this cute.

2011-02-10T09:33:00.001-05:00

2011-02-01T14:41:00.000-05:00

2011-01-27T08:37:00.001-05:00

2011-01-20T14:33:00.002-05:00

Meant to post this when I put the sketch up but got distracted. Music for this sketch. Band: Woven, Album: 8-bit Monk, Song: Who Knows. Find it and set to repeat.

Herald

2011-01-13T16:48:00.002-05:00

Part of an illustration I'm working on.

January Girls

2011-01-13T08:50:00.004-05:00

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I've actually been drawing quite a bit lately but I'm not quite ready to share that stuff with the world yet. In the mean time here are a couple of girls from Drink & Draw last night.

THOOOOM

2011-01-10T11:04:00.002-05:00

Mr. Thoom

Blue bird

2011-01-07T18:52:00.002-05:00

2 things going on here. 1. Trying out my kung fu pens that I got for Christmas. Fountain Pen that apparently you can fend off wooden monsters with. 2. Still messing with a comfortable pen style by drawing over a photograph of a bird.

Ohio House Painting

2011-01-01T10:31:00.001-05:00

2010-12-30T15:48:00.000-05:00

Season's Greetings

2010-12-18T12:32:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas

Ann and Andy

2010-12-03T16:40:00.002-05:00

for Brian and Marne

2010-12-02T10:16:00.001-05:00

Aslan & Lucy

2010-12-01T09:50:00.002-05:00

Bunch of sketches mashed together

2010-12-01T00:13:00.001-05:00

From sketchy last night

2010-11-24T11:13:00.001-05:00

Does not look like the model, but I like the drawing.

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20 something out of 10,000

2010-11-17T13:55:00.003-05:00

Jose Cintron once told us in painting class how many paintings you have to do to master painting I may be misremembering the number but I'll put it at 10,000. Essentially a amazingly high, nearly unattainable number, point being is painting is hard and if you are doing it right you learn with each painting. Of true, just paintings, nothing else I am probably somewhere in the 20's maybe more but certainly no way near 10,000.
This is acrylic on clayboard, and about 40% there so I thought I would post to get some crit.

Sketches from a Service Dept waiting room

2010-11-11T19:26:00.002-05:00

Some sketches while waiting in car purgatory. The lower one, other denizens of the waiting room. The top one half of a 'stache for something I've been working on and all the birds I've been trying to make an official insignia for a government answer to the zombie menace. I went straight for the eagle but it just didn't seem to work until I started thinking of why one would choose an animal for an insignia, mainly for morale. Something strong or something that could cause fear in our enemies, so if your enemy is a zombie what eats the dead? Carrion! So the idea of a few different groups of zombie fighters with different carrion birds for their totem seems appropriate. Come to think of it Hyena are scavengers as well, going to do more with this.

Faces

2010-11-11T17:26:00.002-05:00

Nothing Like a log Phone conference to catch up on your drawing of faces... of people that do not exist!

Sketchy Backlog

2010-11-05T14:04:00.002-04:00

It would seem it's been a long time since I've posted any Dr. Sketchy drawings, in fact I think it's been at least 4 Sketchy's since my last post. There's a bunch more but I didn't want to vomit them all out at the same time (sorry for the visual). So here ya go Sketchy away!

Psycobilly Waitress

2010-11-04T08:59:00.003-04:00

There's this waitress at the bar we go to for Drink and Draw that makes me curious.

She wears 1950's-ish cloths with tattoos that occasionally slip out from under a sleeve or peek through her stockings. Every time I see her I hear the Horror Pops in my head. (if you don't know the Horror Pops give them a listen and realize that the world is full of people infinitely more interesting than you are.)

Pinch-erino

2010-11-01T17:21:00.001-04:00

too much product

2010-10-29T13:55:00.001-04:00

Happy Halloween

2010-10-28T19:58:00.002-04:00

These Assyrian lion dudes were serious business.

Squeel 2

2010-10-27T17:32:00.001-04:00

Remember the cartoon about the flea circus with the clown flea and the showgirl flea?

Lemmy!

2010-10-26T22:52:00.005-04:00

I've been asking friends for sketch topics lately and it's been kind of fun. Today I asked Rob what I should sketch tonight and after a pause he said "draw a Rock Star". So first I had to ask myself what defined "Rock"... as if guided by some Devine power the 1st thing that popped in my head was "The Ace of Spades". If you haven't heard Motorhead's Ace of Spades in a while, what are you waiting for? Go listen to it now!

(I have to hope Lemmy will forgive me, but being left handed I sometimes forget that the rest of the world is right handed. I could flip the image but I'm lazy and I want to watch Family Guy)

Fin 2

2010-10-26T15:25:00.003-04:00

And so seeing the size of the son of the great Fin Mac Cool the Scottish Giant searched for a way to test the lad's strength. For if Fin's infant son is half as big and half as strong as the father he would perhaps have more of a fight than on his hands than he was willing to partake. "Put your finger in his mouth and feel his bite, " suggested Fin's wife.

Fin Mac Cool

2010-10-26T12:47:00.003-04:00

So when Bruce asked me for a sketch topic he was nice enough to give me one as well. Fin Mac Cool. Giant who is known to have created the "Giant's Causeway" off the coast of Ireland. Here, at his wife's suggestion he is dressed like a baby to fool a Scottish Giant who has come to challenge him to a fight.

Durp

2010-10-21T16:58:00.001-04:00

Superman, who's a little on the pinhead side and a sketch of Power Girl that turned into Durp Girl. She was too silly to erase.

2010-10-21T08:38:00.003-04:00

I started sketching a girl at the bar (drink-n-draw last night) but instead of looking much like her it turned into some pissed off soccer Mom. I like to imagine that she's glaring at a neighbor she hates who's speaking up at the PTA meeting. She's thinking...

"OMG, this bitch never shuts up. She does the same shit at our Bible study group!" /glare

2010-10-19T23:31:00.004-04:00

I asked Craig for a sketch topic and he offered up Swamp Thing. I had to look him up having forgotten his origin story. Wow, Alex Olsen is about as tragic a character as you can get. Sad story.

Portrait of a killer

2010-10-18T22:17:00.002-04:00

My dog killed a squirrel today. She was quite pleased with herself.

Also, you would be surprised just how far you can hurl a squirrel's corpse with a shovel. Funny stuff.

little red cap

2010-10-18T10:08:00.004-04:00

I decided to take a small sketch from a few days back and work it up a bit. The original was only about 2" x 3" while the new one is 12" x 18". I hate that I have such a hard time capturing the feel of an original sketch. There's something about it that just has a bit more attitude and I can't put my finger on it. If I can get to a place where I feel good about it my plan is to transfer it onto a canvas thats somewhere around 16" x 20" or maybe 20" x 30". Not sure yet, just have to see where it goes.

2010-10-15T17:03:00.000-04:00

This looks nothing like the person I was trying to recall while I was drawing it.

2010-10-15T14:41:00.000-04:00