Personal: A Perfect Day for Bananafish...

Ink and value studies for some illustration I am working on...

No Animals - Just Floral...

is the new direction they want to take this wine label. We'll see what they say now.

Wine Label Sketch

Here's a sketch I did for a wine label as well. Today is turning into quite the cathartic day, posting all of this stuff. Let's see what else I can allow myself to put up...

St. Mary's Paintings

And here are the paintings. I am so happy that the art director (Karen Kemp) asked me to do the text with the portraits. Makes them a little more interesting I think.

St. Mary's 2009!

So... yeah. I have been neglecting this blog. It definitely is not because I haven't been working on stuff, I have just been feeling shy again. Oh what a struggle this life can be... but forget all of that B.S. I am on the upswing and I have regained a little confidence! I was contacted last week by Saint Mary's College again to do some more portraits. Here are the sketches. I'll post the paintings next!

Be Forewarned...

Something very baaad is going to happen to one of my drawn sheep. Sometimes I just have to exorcise these naughty nasty thoughts by drawing them. And since this is my blog I will post them.

Alligator vs Deer

It seems recently that I have been taking interest in drawing alligators. Having spent my entire life in the Bay Area (for the most part) I really enjoy the flora in the environments that alligators live. Lots of swamps and spanish moss, bugs and creepy housing. It's just so refreshing compared to the static buildings I am surrounded by constantly in this gray city. On further review these are things that I like to look at a draw, but probably wouldn't want to live with.


Preliminary sketch.





And the finish. I am attempting to hone my drawing skills, and really am just craving some good old OCD ridden ink work. The surface of the water is something I should work on...