Happy New Year!

A New Year's party in a club somewhere in Japan.

I did a LITTLE bit of research, and I'm pretty sure that says "Happy New Year." Someday I'll find out for sure. Anyway, there's no reasoning for the Japanese theme-- I just felt like it. Happy New Year!

Environment Study

A rough study of a random image I found on Google. Here's where I found the image:

http://www.traipsingabout.com/2014/10/30/video-of-our-bike-touring-adventure-part-2-spearfish-sd-to-indiana-through-the-midwest/

Goblin

Pre-lunchtime goblin painting, because I've been drawing too many happy things lately. Plus, the last Hobbit movie is out in theaters today!

The "fiesta forever" is from a thing we're working on at work. We've been hearing the words "fiesta forever" blasting from the audio room pretty much all day every day for the past two weeks...so Mr. Goblin isn't very happy about that.

Going to the Candy Store

An inside joke with the cousins. :)

Mr. Puffin Man!

Today's Drawcember theme was "Mistletoe", and tomorrow's is "Puffin"...so there you have it!

Drrrrrawcember!

His name is Randolph. :)

Salty The Snowman

For Drawcember!

Drawcember!

We started "Drawcember" at work. Today's theme was "Elf"!

Trees!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

Banner For Work!

Let it be known...today I was asked to draw a monster for work. Dreams fulfilled.

New Banner!

For the blog. :)

Drawlloween 8+14+15

Eyeless alien with an eye amulet! Catching up!

Drawlloween 19+20!

Devil and skulls! ...plus a very intense paper texture. :) Can't resist using a paper texture now and then.

Drawlloween 17!

Today's theme is "8-bit Zombie". When I think 8-bit I always think of Pokemon, my favorite childhood video game. So here's me and some zombies in an old Pokemon game! Just snagged the Gameboy photo off of Google. :)

Drawlloween 7!

Bat!

Drawlloween...12? STILL catching up!

Couldn't lock in on a dragon design that I liked. One of them pretty much became Godzilla. Geesh. I want to keep moving, and so for now you get rough idea sketches!

Drawlloween 2+9+10+11

Work has been WAY crazy. Unfortunately I haven't had much time to draw, but I was able to throw together this big catch-up of a drawing. I covered (in order from left to right) zombie, werewolf, Frankenstein, and vampire. Ha! Need to move on, no time to finish!

Drawlloween 6!

Haunted house! Stiiiiiiill catching up.

Drawlloween 4+5 combo!

Still catching up! This time I decided to combine "Raven" and "Goblin". Next is "Zombie" and "Haunted House"! Soon I'll be up-to-date!

Drawlloween!

I JUST heard about this today, so I have some catching up to do! Today's drawing was "Rat", so I combined day 1's "Spider" with the rat. Tomorrow is "Raven", and I'll be combining day 2's "Zombie" with that! Woohoo Drawlloween!

Alien Racer!

Greece

Another "lasso-tool" drawing-- heavily inspired by Santorini.

And...my fun alt. version:

Butt-Chin Space Man!

A quick sketch before things get crazy at work! Started with some fun easy shapes.

Cowboy Silhouette

Rough start for a possible painting! All done with the lasso tool in Photoshop.

Tunnel Monster

A speedpaint, technically! Had to get back to my roots and do a monster-in-a-forest painting.

Squatch!

Hahahahahahaha. Fun Sketch.

Race

This was a birthday present for my dad! It's Speed Racer, Mad Max, and my dad in his 69' Camaro.

Animated Storyboards

It's where I work! I did this little design for them to put on some canvas bags. We have a bunch of studios around the world, so I tried to work that idea into a fun drawing.

Forest Sketch

Snake

A work in progress! I was inspired by the AWESOME new Godzilla movie, and had to do something giant-monster related.

The Frankentree

This is the first of a series of drawings I hope to do, all of childhood memories I share with my cousins and my brothers...our adventures, our discoveries, and our shenanigans.

For this one, I decided to draw a time we discovered a weird dead tree in my grandparents' neighbor's yard. It had pieces of metal and bottle-caps nailed into the trunk of the tree, in the shape of a face. Weird! There wasn't much of a story behind this one, but for some reason or another, I've always remembered this event very vividly. We always would drive my grandparents' golf carts around the property, so I threw one of those in, too.

The drawing itself was a blast; I did loose silhouettes first, made sure I liked their composition, then did the line drawings over them, preserving the roughness of the original silhouettes underneath. Then for the characters, I drew simple features over the original rough silhouettes and added shadows beneath them. And of course the clouds, those are there for some added atmosphere. Lastly, I added a layer of color and texture to the silhouettes for that sepia tone/texture.

Hope you like!

The Ones That Got Away...

Some cool characters that didn't get finished, or colored, for some-reason-or-another. Didn't want them to get thrown away forever!

I'll probably finish a couple of them someday.

Speedpaint and Paintover

This one was interesting... From bottom to top: initial sketch, speedpaint, paintover. I did a lot of painting then shrinking then painting then shrinking, and the result was my initial sketch becoming a small window within a larger composition...a fun way to organically put some perspective in, without construction lines and whatnot. This wasn't for any project, I just wanted to play around with ideas.