The Mummified Ghost of Dr. Frankenstein's Vampiric Werewolf Witch from the Black Lagoon

This is a couple months (and an entire season) late, but here's the illustration I did for the Bureau of Drawers' "Monster"-themed Halloween show at Cafe Racer. I figured that, if one type of monster was scary, combining them all into one mega-monster would be horrifying. Right?

Right?

Dueling Banjo Pig

Here's the illustration that I submitted to the Dueling Banjo Pig website:

Check out some other banjo pigs here.

Figure Drawing - July 12th

After two session of figure drawing with a female model, it was a bit of a challenge switching to the more angular shapes of a male model. But, though my initial gesture drawings were a bit uneven, I felt like I'd found my sea-legs by the last couple of poses.

Anyhow, these two images were, I believe, 20 or 30 minute poses.


I think that the symbols on his chest were Egyptian hieroglyphs (if you are wondering), but it was hard to make out at the distance I was sitting.



Looking at these now, it looks sort of like I'm afraid of drawing feet, which isn't the case. Instead, I just have a small, crappy scanner and they were cut off during the scanning process.

Figure Drawing - June 28th

When fellow Bureaucrat, Tom, initially told me about the figure drawing group in the International District, he said something to the effect of: "The first time you go, you'll love it. The second time, you'll hate your art." And, I have to say that now I know what he's talking about. While the model provided us with a lot more dynamic poses this time around (owing partially to the fact that she didn't have a sprained ankle like the last model), my own drawings seems more stiff and awkward. Still, I did a couple illustrations that I thought turned out pretty decent.

The first one was, I believe, a 15 minute pose. The second was more like 45 minutes. And, yes, in the first one, the model did wrap a scarf around her head like that.

Figure Drawing - June 15th

I recently learned about a new Figure Drawing Group that meets every other Monday in Seattle's International District, and finally got a chance to attend last night. This was my first time drawing from a model since college (so, like, 10 years ago), so it was interesting and challenging to get back into the swing of things.

The session is broken up into three parts: One hour of 5 minute poses, one hour of 10 minute poses, and one hour of 20 minute poses. Below are my three sketches from the final hour.





As you can tell from these drawings, the model had a sprained ankle, so most of the poses she held were in a sitting position. Even at 20 minutes a pose, I still feel like these are just getting the rough details down. I'm hoping to continue to attend the group, so perhaps I'll post more drawings here in the future, and we can watch how my technique (hopefully) progresses.

'Monkey' sketch

Inspired by the folk story Monkey (also known as A Journey to the West), which I've been reading recently, last night I decided to take a stab at drawing my version of the titular character. In the end, I probably took some artistic liberties with the character's appearance, but I was still pleased with the results.

Monkey!

Recent Sketches - March '10

In an effort to update this blog more regularly, here are a few sketches I did recently. All of these were at the Wednesday illustration group I've been attending: Friends of the Nib.


Condorman & Gangster Stan Lee star in "The Battle For Neptune"
What started as a caricature of Stan Lee morphed into an elderly gangster, and Disney superhero Condorman appears thanks to some old comics sitting nearby. The illustrator next to me was drawing Neptune... so it only made sense that they'd be fighting over control of it. Right?


An Echidna with a Gatling Gun
The Gatling gun makes more sense if you read up on echidnas. I'm not sure what sort of accent he has, though it doesn't sound like Australian, which would be the logical assumption.

(Oh, and please ignore the fact that I misspelled "Gatlin'" in that drawing. It's probably to my credit that I don't know how to spell firearm names without looking them up online.)


Maxwell Thorton Jr. - Hunting Gent
This chap will hopefully appear in a card game idea I've been playing around with.

Penguin sketch

Client: Personal
Description: Last week, at the illustration group I attend on Wednesday, Friends of the Nib, someone brought a bunch of old Batman 2 trading cards and challenged everyone to draw a picture based on them. At the end of the night, I'd created this pen and ink illustrated tribute to Danny Devito's Pengiun.

Childhood (the Forest Car)

Client: Personal Project
Description: Several weeks ago, I had a friend mention an illustration contest where you had to draw a picture that you thought represented "childhood." For some reason, the first thing that sprang into my mind was a group of old rusted out cars that were in a small woods, out passed a dead-end road near my childhood house. As you might imagine, it was very off-limits to go play on or by these rusted old cars, but occasionally, we'd sneak off and take a look at them anyhow.

I'm pretty sure that I've since missed the contest, but I thought I'd put the image to paper. Needless to say, that kid doesn't look like me, and there were never fairy lights hanging from the surrounding pine trees... but still.