Dripping With Soul

I initially wanted to entitle this Dripping With Da Funk...but its not really 'funky'. I like how this came out...even though I wasn't all that fond of it while I was sketching it. Lately I've been having alot of creative ideas just flowing...and I'm just running with it all. Its going to be hard to try and finish all of these, while working on my sketchbook...and on top of all that, entering competitions and things like that. I like how this is like full time work with part time (actually no...) pay. But you gotta do what you gotta do to live your D.R.E.A.M.. Who knows, I may one day get that break that will let me do what I love full time. I can only hope, right??

What's This? What's This??

Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies. And I love Jack Skellington...he's definitely the man. Anyways, I have so many fond memories of that movie that I decided to devote a whole afternoon to putting a ridiculous amount of dots on some paper so hopefully it will come out looking like something. Well, its more involved than that...but whatever you get the picture.

Oh Jack this isn't fair...People are throwing snowballs instead of throwing heads.

Uniball micropen on 5 1/2" x 8" paper

Just a Break From the Norm...

And for my next trick...

This is something that I just drew up real RANDOMLY. I tried to draw an abstract drawing...you know the kind that have one image transforming into multiple ones...but that didn't work out exactly how I envisioned it. Anyways, it came out looking like some cotton candy brightness...just what I imagine everything would look if you overdosed on sugar.

Girls I Do Adore...

I've noticed that alot of artists that I like and follow, they draw females alot. Some of them even only draw nude females (pervs!!). I told myself that when I do start to take art and illustration seriously (which was about...last year) that I would devote my pen and pencil time equally between drawing guys and girls. But fact of the matter is...I love drawing girls.

I love drawing their curves...their physique...so much about them makes it great to draw. Not only that, you can do so much with a female's outfit that you can't do with a male's clothes without him coming out looking...iunno. Drawing women's clothes is more open to interpretation and you can do so much more with them. I think that I'm just gonna take some time one day and just draw up a whole bunch of fashion layouts of women with different outfits...wow, did I just have a fashion designer moment?? I guess its all related...

But in the meantime, here's a brief snippet of one of the things I've been working on lately. This is just a small piece of the much larger pic. Maybe you'll see the whole thing one day...maybe not. But one thing I can tell you is that I drew it specifically for my partner in crime, my rock, my best friend and all around most favoritest person ever. Mushy, right?



What can I say? It is what it is.

"Does It Look Like I Care?" Bear

The stuff you come up with when you're bored. I thought it was kinda weird that the Care Bears were always happy and always caring all the time...with their care bear stares and what not. Sometimes I wonder if Dr. ColdHeart was just a normal person who just had bad luck, and decided to be grumpy for a change, and he couldn't even do that in peace without those damn bears messing that up. Maybe they're the villians after all....forcing their beliefs on others. The injustice!!

So, this is, Does It Look Like I Care Bear...who obviously doesn't care. And he doesn't have a Care Bear Stare...he has a Not Caring Scowl. I'm scared of you!!!

Done with a Bic pen, and a crappy color job in GIMP.

Spidey Circa '98

If you are a new reader to my blog, I should let you know that I've always loved drawing. I've been drawing since like 1st grade, probably even before that, but thats when I remember actually picking up a pencil and deciding on drawing certain things. Around middle school is when I really got into it, and around the end of middle school to the beginning of high school, I thought to myself that this is what I want to do for a living. Well, when you're that age, everyone's telling you that you should be a doctor or a lawyer...and for me I was great at 3 things: art, science and math. And people keep telling me that art isn't profitable, and that if I wanted to do both math and science, I should become an engineer...and thats what I went to school for and got my degree in.

So I put art away...I put it away for almost 5 years...and then I picked it up again around 2005. Parts of me wish I had went to art school, cause I really don't know any other artists, and I would love to be in an art community where other people are pushing each other to be better. And I wish I was more serious about art then as I am now, because there's no telling where it could've taken me if I stuck with it. Anyways...

I was cleaning up today and ran across an old 11x17 sketchbook. I thought I lost it when I left for college and I'm glad I didn't. It is however all battered up and wrinkled and stuff. Back then, it was all about adding ridiculous amount of detail, even when I should've been working on anatomy and dynamic poses and stuff. Ah well, its fun to reminisce. Here's a picture of Spiderman and Carnage of Marvel fame...from when I was around 14 years old. Looking at this makes me so mad at myself that I didn't pursue art like I did. Always go after your passions, and never settle for anything less.

The pic is broken up into two pieces because my scanner can't scan pics that large. And to see the detail that I wanted to depict, I had to scan them at 300 dpi, so the file sizes for each eclipse a meg. You should've seen the sizes before I compressed them. Inked with a .35 mm pen, and colored with my personal fave...Crayola color pencils.