The Twilight Saga Stars

Firstly, let me put this out there: I am not a Twilight fan, though my general taste in movies and music may suggest otherwise. I wanted to get back into drawing faces again and wanted to do recognizable figures, so here are my practice doodles of Bella, Edward and Jacob.

Alright, off to finish New Moon...

Elephants

...are by far one of my favorite animals, next to monkeys. They're the most gentle, nicest guys EVER. Anyway recently I had the opportunity to visit a few few elephant camps / centers in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.










^ The last guy is from the wildlife hospital... Some people's faces just MUST be drawn.

Hot Air Balloonin'.

So, more than a month ago I started brewing some ideas for a new promo card piece:




I picked the last sketch and worked right up to the color comp stage, but didn't get around to starting on the final until two days ago:

I tried to keep everything fairly loose, as far as coloring went.

Almost always I scan in piece and tweak the raw piece in Photoshop:

Most times I do simple color adjustments and clean-up, but I wasn't too happy with how the blue in the balloon came out so I fixed that.

Anyway, here is the final:


Media: ink dyes and color pencils on CP watercolor paper, gin*** + Photoshop.
****I often use lighter fluid to smooth out the color pencil markings (it melts the wax). However, today I couldn't find any so I used gin as a replacement. :x It worked okay but definitely not up to par with lighter fluid, hence the Photoshopping.

About To Cry.

Random facial expressions are fun. Any suggestions?

Vin D, Stop Being Difficult.

So, I'm starting to do a stylized portrait of Vin Diesel. Here are some preliminary sketches:



It's my first time drawing someone with no hair. Also while he has distinct features (nose, chin, eyebrows) I'm having the hardest time capturing his likeness. The drawings I've done sort of all look like Vin Diesel's relatives, but not himself. Hopefully the final will turn out better.



^ My references. w00t I have Vin D staring at me all day. Also watching xXx on mute was da bomb.

More Skins...

Nicholas Hoult as Tony Stonem in Skins.

From My New Favorite Show

April Pearson as Michelle from the UK show Skins.

Allan at the Park

Haven't drawn faces from life lately.

A Bit Early...

...but Happy Valentine's Day.

(A Month-Late)

New Year's Resolution: Update this blog more!!

I have been TERRIBLE with this blog lately, and didn't help that my scanner had been broken up til now. Anyway, I promise I will be better this year! Here are some recent doodles to get the ball rolling once again.




I have NO IDEA what this is supposed to be, but I guess those are the best kind of doodles.


I want to do more story-telling-ish drawings like this.

Animals!

We went to the Jacksonville Zoo today, and I got to sketch animals from life!






I personally enjoyed drawing the monkeys the most. Unfortunately they didn't have all the monkeys on exhibit today (like chimps), but oh well. It was still a great time.

The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd.
I love musicals but this one was a bit too much gore for me.

Doodles From The Past Week Or So

I drew this one in a dark theater, and while I enjoy the nervous linework it resulted in, I ended up getting myself a little booklight so I don't go blind in a few years.


I like this one a lot, I might take it to finish.



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Also, I got myself a Behance site. Check me out and give me some thumbs ups!

Sketchies & T-shirt Design

Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives:


Sometimes I get OCD and cover an entire page with random patterns:


A T-shirt design concept I did for this project a couple months back:

It's being processed right now for production, will update more when that's all set!

Logo!

After 4 intense weeks of sketching... my very first logo as an Illustrator is finally complete:



Here are some of the preliminary sketches (small ones, like napkin doodles, excluded):

Desperate Housewives

Bree Hodge and Carlos Solis.

I started on Susan but didn't get to finish...hopefully next week!

I'm Leaving You Behind.

I've been preoccupied with several projects in the works--which I will start putting up in the posts to come.

For the job fair that SCAD hosted last week, I decided to make little leave-behind booklets with a few printed samples of my work & CD etc. I had a ball designing/crafting them, so decided to share it here:


[ I've decided, pink & yellow are my new favorite colors ]

^ the back.

And now, I will leave you with a little doodle..

Inertia Is A Property Of Matter

Bill Nye The Science Guy
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!

He is my scientific superstar.