Why Didn't I Go to Bed An Hour Ago?

Hell hath no fury, etc.

Corey

Here's Corey from LA Ink. Nicole and I got sucked in again after swearing it off. Then we missed the last episode of the season, so we got no resolution. Here's the ref:

morning warmups!

Landscape Study

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Fat Tailed Dunnart

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This one I did all by myself!

Gina Welch

Here's this morning's warmup. I had set up my timer for 10 minutes... then I took what I thought was a couple more minutes to kinda tweak the hair and eyes and a couple other things. That turned into another 10 minutes. So this is my 10 minute sketch that took 20 minutes.

Gina Welch was my subject. I listened to an interview on the Skepticality podcast, then watched a video on her website. I was struck by her crazy eyebrows and this quirky way she holds her upper lip while she talks.

white collar

15 minutes at lunch

belting out a drunken jam

Just a quick morning warmup. I used this photo as inspiration, but tried to translate the guy around into a different position, so as to not completely ripoff the photo. His hand is so wrong it makes me want to make vomits. Note to self: draw more hands.

sketches (obviously)

Mar 10 - She's from a photo. I don't have the URL anymore
Mar 11 - Lunch time topic: Wombat
Apr 16 - morning warmup - 10 minutes - ref

morning warmups

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Weekend Disaster"

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Robbery"

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Cloud Fortress"

Morning Warmup Photofailure
Source

love me two times

PZ Myers

Lucy, For Trevor

National Geographic's Photo of the Day

september snuck past unchecked

None of this is any good, but here are some doodles. I do kinda enjoy the William Wells though. That's the ancestor of one of my co-workers.

10.21 - source

This one looks pretty good the further away from it you get. Try it now. Back out into your kitchen, close the door... doesn't it look fantastic now?

slightly suspicious

Mustache Ref
i need to be more careful with the construction. i tend to break the form, neglecting to wrap features around the form. also, the lump of hair above his left ear looks malignant.

mustaches of the 19th century

Hurray for this blog: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

old man jet

i've been slacking on my warmups. it has been more than 2 weeks. i'm shocked at how quick the time slips past. my daughters will be a year old in less than a month. how is it that time speeds up so much as one ages?

here is a caricature sort of study from a photo & a lunch time speedy imagination thing.

07.27 (link to ref)07.30 "Pulling Hard G's"

earwig photo study

Earwig SourceEarwigs, of all the bugs I've encountered, give me the willies. Maybe it's the name. Maybe it's the giant pincers. Maybe it's the thought of the giant pincers in my ear rearranging my ear's furniture... I don't know what it is about them that freaks me out the most. I suspect it is all of the above. Also, they are good at charades.

15 minute photo studies

June 22 - Source

July 6 - Source

July 7 - Source

July 8 - Source

speed paintings for early june

06.01 - retrograde motion06.01 - photo study (source)

06.01 - caricature photo study (source)06.08 - sand ravaged people
06.09 - um... angler fish slug... thing fail?

06.09 - extraction

Into the Pixel 2009

I am very honored and humbled to have a piece included in the 2009 Into The Pixel exhibition. It's an annual exhibition of 16 pieces selected from concept art for video games. I was quite shocked to hear that my piece was selected. I don't consider myself to be anywhere near the level of the artists that are in the show. So, go to the site and check out the awesome art.

color studies

05.28 - borderline

05.29 - photo study (source)

speed paintings for this week

05.26 - "natural order"

05.27 - "pangolin"

05.28 - 15 minute photo study (source)

self caricature - i feel lousy today

feelin like crap... but i like how it came out