This week's stuff!!!!

This was fun. My buddy Jeremy Rusnak and I doing some fun character design stuff while at the caricature stand. We set out to design a lobster boy!


Some Jaguar studies.


Some random character designs. Heman and some pirates.





Also a retake on the an old show piece, "The usual suspects" originally the breath of paintings featured animals that raid urban trash cans. Possums, alley cats, bears and such. This was the bear. Originally it was carrying a trash can. I made this one an ice bear.

Some retakes on some paintings from Previous shows. These were two of my favorite lil paintings. The Hellboy was for the "let them eat pancakes" show at uberbot gallery in florida. I don't know if the paintings sold or not, i haven't heard from the gallery? I painted this one for myself. I'm gonna hang it up at my place somewhere. The lil mummy was also a fav of mine and my ex girlfriend. I painted it for her because the original was sold to some lucky person. She really wanted it, but never made it in time to buy it. (Am i the nicest ex boyfriend or what?)


My first attempt at painting with cell vinyls. A lil study inspired by all that stuff out there that i absolutely love!!!


Damian, a once co-worker truly missed. He totally looks like that black tiger from the 80's movie Beast master! Also, Sam, of big sam art blog, totally looks like Rafikki from lion king. lol, and a lady friend that accompanied them both, well, she looked like a giraffe to me.
Man, that was so fun. Friday the 6th, it rained all day, so Sam and I were supposed to work at the citywalk airbrush stand, well, the rain made us close up. We tried to wait out the rain by hanging out at the Bubba gump's across the way. Well, it was nice to sit and draw in our sketchbooks for like 8 hours and get paid for it. I love my job.



A blast from the past.

Hanging out last night with independent comic publishers Bernyce Tally and friends. A quick lil memory sketch of Bernyce and her lil red dress.

LA zoo animal life drawing.

Goes to show what a lil practice and studying can do.

I've always been pretty good at drawing animals off the top of my head. When I worked at the LA zoo, as a caricature artist, that came in handy. Many times kids wanted to be drawn ridding or feeding a zoo animal. I could usually draw any animal they wanted, freehand, no reference or construction. the animal likenesses were decent, but I always strive for perfection.

I've been studying giraffes and rhinos lately. From books, videos, pics on the interwebz, you know, all the usual sources. and, I've studied them enough to be able to do an adequate sketch. However, I strive for more. Like Claire Wendling's animal drawings. That's my goal, to be able to caricature my two current muses like Claire has in one of her books. If you happen to know what I'm talking about, you know how great her work is.
Well, here's some sketches I did in church, off the top of my head. No ref.

As done as it'll get.

Almost Done.

This is #1 of my sequential art project, "This sort of thing doesn't happen in nature."

It isn't finished yet, but I'm working on it.

This doesn't happen in nature.

I'm doing a new set of sequential illustrations. I'm calling it "This doesn't happen in Nature!"
It explains itself.

Here's a work in progress.