Art show at Cream

Here are a couple pieces I did for an art show here at a local coffee shop called Cream. These paintings are similar in color to my work in college, so it was good to paint like this again.


"love ballistic"


"eye trust you"


"passions gripped by fear"


"after all this waiting"

Cripple Con 2

It's been a busy month, but I had a chance to go to Cripple Con 2 in Kansas City. It was a blast. I had a great time and was able to "let my hair down". My friends unfortunately got the brunt force of it, but its all in good gross fun. I placed 2nd for funniest drawing and 3rd for "creepiest person" at the convention. Not sure why. I wasn't trying to creep people out...

So here are the drawings from my wall. This convention is all about doing offensive, sick, disgusting cartoons, so its all in bad taste and if you are easily offended or my mother, don't look at these pictures. It's that bad.

Caricatures of me

Every once an' awhile friends will draw me or by going to caricature conventions you tend to get drawn. Here are a couple from the vault.


Eric and I by Anne Bush


JERT


Court Jones


KEV


Brian Morante


Nolan Harris


Aaron Philby


Jeremy Stock


Andy Urza

I hope to collect some more at Cripple Con 2!

Illustration Friday: Voices

Illustration Friday: Similar

Caricature of Obama and Clinton, together at last.

More Life Drawing

Goblin Boss

Another week and another topic for Conceptart.org. This week's character had to relate back to last week's. So this is the "boss" of the gunslinger goblin.

I'm still trying to get the results I want with all of this digital painting. I like being able to feel free laying on the "washes" but I think I like having an actual finished drawing I can hold as well.

Life drawing in North Park

Even though I haven't posted in quite some time, I have been drawing besides at the Zoo. On Wednesday mornings usually I go to a life drawing class here in North Park. The models are good and it helps to continue to practice drawing from life. Its interesting, if you stop drawing for awhile you really got to fight in the beginning to get back on that horse and to reach the next plateau.

Goblin Gunslinger

Here's a character design I just did on the conceptart.org forum for fun. Each week they give a different subject to work on. The requirements were to do this character with a front, side and back view.

The Messenger

Here's another short comic I did last month for fun.



I was experimenting with adding texture in the line art. Just trying something different.

What's in the Box?

Holy crap I haven't posted in nearly a year, okay its time again to share.
Here's a comic Rachel Garrett and I worked on last year.

Sunday Sketch Night Post

Here are some sketch book pages from our weekly sketch night a couple of weeks ago.





Can you guess what the theme of these images was?

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School

I've been trying to get out to do more life drawing and one of the happenings that we have here in SD is the Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. There are different clubs in major cities across the country. What they do is every third Saturday in North Park (yeah!) at the Blue Foot Bar they have different burlesque and exotic dancers/models come to this bar and they pose in their costumes and you basically drink and draw for a couple hours and there are also "drawing contests".

Its pretty interesting and the turn out is good so you have to get there early to get a good seat.
This last session, they invited two belly dancers to model for us and last month they had a great model dress up as a Vampire for Halloween. In December there will be a naughty Santa's helper girl or something.


This last one, she was suppose to be doing something with a turkey. The contests are a little hokey sometimes but whatever...

I love couples!

Okay, so at the Zoo or any theme park when you draw caricatures, drawing couples has many advantages. One, you double up on the money you get. Woot! Second, you typically will just draw faces which lets you play with the differences between the people sitting there, and third, its usually some schmo and a hot girl, so you play up how much of a Neanderthal he looks and cute and charming the girl is.

Disclaimer: This is a huge generalization and couples come in all shapes and sizes, races and creeds, so the pics here just illustrate my last point. Also I'll admit that I don't push the exaggeration to the point of insult, some of my colleagues enjoy testing the public to see just how far they make people feel about their insecurities. In the end, I just want them to laugh and buy my cartoons. With a large frame.


This guy really didn't want me to take his picture after I drew it and yes his head was HUGE!

Illustration Friday: Wired

Sorry this is a bit late (work) but I finished it and wanted to post it anyway.