Caveman

I drew up this sketch about a month ago and thought he could use some color.  I had just taken my kids to see The Croods at the theatre and had cavemen on the brain I guess.  I'd also been looking at the concept art on the film, especially the drawings by Carter Goodrich who I am a HUGE fan of.  This is mostly inspired by his drawings.  I thought it would be cool to put it on a cave wall just for kicks.  enjoy.

Cup O Doodle bird thing

This was my second attempt at the Cup O Doodle sketch.  I originally was going to draw a snake and my wife looked at the lines given to me and told me that was too obvious a solution and I had to find something else.  I listened to her.  I usually do.  My life goes a lot better that way.  Enjoy.

New Cup O Doodle Sketch

This week a friend of mine encouraged me to try out Cup O Doodle.  It's a blog where they post up sketches of random lines or stains or shapes.  You look at them and then try and make a sketch out of the madness of it.  Think of it kind of like a Rorshach test, except that instead of telling people what you see in the ink blots you are sketching it out for them and filling in the little gaps.  Here's my first attempt at it. The first sketch is what I came up with and the second I have an overlay of the lines they gave me to use. It was pretty fun.  Enjoy.

Akimi Bird

Came across this piece recently.  I was doing concept art for a Play Station video game (Akimi Village, you should check it out).  And I was drawing a lot of buildings.  The buildings themselves were fun but I wanted to draw something organic and alive, so I put a big bird perch on top of the building so I could design a fun bird to go along with it.  And here he is.  enjoy.

Daily Sketch 2

Don't know what brought this on, but I thought today I'd draw a boxer (Boxer-get it?).  My wife loves these type of dogs and I think I have to agree with her.  They've got alot of personality.  That and they're like 90% muscle (I'm pretty sure a boxer would kick my butt if we ever got in a fight).  Enjoy.

Daily Sketch

I've been messing around with a few new brushes in photoshop lately and I'm really enjoying the results.  This was just me playing around a bit today to get used to it.  Enjoy.

Tree Man

Here's a sketch I did awhile ago with some quick color thrown on it.  I really rather liked the concept.  I was tempted to put this guy sitting on a couch as if he's taken root there and won't ever get up, but the suit was too fun to draw.  Maybe I'll do another one.  For now you get this.  Enjoy.

Croquet

Had a bit of time recently to have some fun and do some art.  This is what came out.  I've had a lot of fun playing around with colored pencils and I wanted to see what type of results I would get if I laid down a water color wash underneath and then added int he colored pencils for details.  I'm pretty happy with the results.  I'm basing this type of thing on a children's book that I fell in love with called The Hermit Crab by Carter Goodrich.  I love the shapes in that book as well as the subtle colors.  I plan on doing more stuff like this.  Wish me luck.  Enjoy.

Fro

I was able to go and guest lecture last night at a local college.  It was a blast.  It was so much fun being around the students and looking at their work.  While I was there someone asked me if I would draw one of the kids there.  Normally I would decline (I'm no good at caricatures), but in this case I felt compelled to do so.  Why you ask?  C'mon, look at that fro!  Who wouldn't want to draw that?  Only had a few minutes this morning to color it up but I wanted to get something posted here for the weekend.  enjoy.

Brains!

A little zombie to brighten up your monday.  enjoy.

All the Chameleons

I put all of the previous chameleons together on one handy page.  I kind of like looking at them this way to see the small differences and the fun characters next to one another.  What do you think?  Which one is your favorite?  Enjoy.

Angry Cat

Here's something I've been playing around with recently.  I like where this is headed and I think I'm going to detail it up a bit more, but Joe will kill me if I don't post something to do.  So you can all thank Joe for this work in progress image.  Enjoy.

Chameleon 8

Here's the last one.  Enjoy.

Chameleon 7

Enjoy.

Chameleon 6

Almost done with these.  I promise.  enjoy.

Chameleon Number 5

Yet another chameleon.  I'm pretty happy with the way this one turned out.  Enjoy.

Chameleon 4

This is the fourth one, right?  Enjoy.

Chameleon 3

Here's number 3.  More to come soon.  enjoy.

Chameleon 2

Here's another one.  Enjoy.

Chameleon 1

Part of a nature show I was watching recently had a section on chameleons and I just thought they were the coolest looking creatures and I really needed to draw some.  Hopefully this is the first drawing of many.  enjoy.