50 by 50, day 10

50 by 50, day 8

Surfs up, Reverend Phelps.

50 by 50, day 7

50 by 50, day 6

Phoned one in.

50 by 50, day 5

Daisy at Motosketch.

50 by 50, day 4

The Catahoula Leopard Hound is the State Dog of Louisiana.

50 by 50, day 3

I'm really into painting in low light. This isn't entirely successful, but I'm okay with it. My friend Danielle was at a bar, and I brought along my gouaches.

50 by 50, day 2

Everybody loves breakfast.

50 by 50

Inspired by a project that Catherine Mackey did, a few of my drawing classmates and I have banded together to attempt to do 50 small (5 inch) drawings in 50 days. Here is the first, a quick gouache of my wife's hand:

Something for a friend

Serge Gainsbourg

Harry Crews

another flash

Illustration Midterm Final

Illustration Project Day 4

Illustration Midterm

So I have to paint a celebrity portrait for my illustration midterm. Here is my goache of Lemmy.

oh, and just to be complete about it

The first sketchbook assignment in my illustration class was the word "mask."


The third was "duality."


I was sick for "fear."

alphabet project

I've recently become fascinated with typography, and with hand lettering in particular. I thought it would be cool to start doing an alphabet a day in my sketchbook. Let's face it folks, that's not going to happen. But here are the first ones:

one panel cartoon

So, for my illustration class we have this weekly sketchbook assignment where we are given a word, and we have to illustrate it, drawing upon an image we select as inspiration.This week's word: spirituality. I chose a Bill Mauldin cartoon from Up Front as my touchstone, but the only similarity between my piece and his is that they are both one panel cartoons. I can't say that this is very good, but I wanted to share:

Deserters