Day of the Dead

I really ssem to love all that Day of the Dead stuff. This is a study for a painting I am working on (and by working on I mean painting for maybe an hour a week when I find the time and/or energy) I'll post the final painting when I'm done with it. for now you get this. enjoy.

I told you there would be more of these

Here's yet another gator. I gotta tell you, I absolutely love doing these things. I don't know what it is about the gators that I really just love to draw. Oh well. I'll try and get to some more clue characters as well here soon. I've also wanted to do some halloween themed stuff, but I've been doing some freelance work as well that's been limiting my time. We'll see what I can get to. Enjoy.

Gator 3

Here's another one of my gators. I realize that this one looks alot like the one from Peter Pan but honestly that gator was so cool looking how could I not draw at least one that looked like him. Enjoy.

Mr. Green

Here's another clue character. This one is a little more thrown together than the last two. However I think that Col. Mustard and Miss Scarlet are the coolest characters. I'll do my best with the remaining char's. Enjoy.

Gator 2

See I promised there would be more of these. There are actually about 20 more in my sketchbook as well. I keep drawing them during our daily meetings here at work. They're really a blast. Enjoy.

Scarlet

Wow, it's been forever hasn't it? Sorry abou that. I have been meaning to finish up that whole Clue thing. this is a drawing I did back when I did the Col. Mustard drawing and just never colored it up for you all. Well here you go. I'll try and get on the rest of them too. Sorry again. I'll start posting more often. Enjoy.

The first of many gators!

One of my favorite books that I own is called "Insanely Twisted Rabbits" by Michel Gagne. I love love love love love that book. What Michel did was while he was working at Don Bluth Animation studios, he and a friend of his started drawing these twisted rabbits. They would post them up on their walls and then try and outdo each other. Much later Michel took his rabbits and put them together and published them as a book. You should really go check them out, they are wonderful you should go to gagneint.com to check out all of his great work. I love the book because it kind of breaks the mold on what a rabbit can be. I pull the book out whenever I feel I am in an artistic rut. If I feel I keep doing the same drawings and using the same shapes, this book makes me go beyond and explore new things. That being said I decided to do my own version of this book. Only instead of rabbits I am doing aligators. I love drawing aligators. If I'm bored and can't think of something to draw I can always, always draw an aligator (ask my wife, she's seen plenty of them). So I've decided to have an entire sketckbook full of nothing but aligators and have fun doing different shapes and styles. So this is the first of many many gators that I am doing and having fun with. I hope you like them. I certainly enjoy doing them. Enjoy.

CLUE!

I was talking with some people at work about board games the other day and one that came up was Clue. I love Clue. I think it's just a cool cool game. I think I own two different versions of it (regular and Simpsons, because well, anything with simpsons on it is cool). I decided it would be alot of fun to redesign the Clue characters. Well not so much redesign as just do my own interpretations of them. I started with Col. Mustard. He's my favorite. I'm always Col. Mustard when I play. And if anyof you want to play Clue with me you're just going to have to deal with that. Dibs. I just called it. Ha! Anyway, I hope to make it through the rest of the cast in the next week or so. We'll see. enjoy.

Tennis Player

Sorry it's been awhile since I've posted anything. Life just gets the better of me every now and then. I was driving home from work yesterday and I saw a kid on his bike that looked kind of like this. I added in the usopen stuff on his headband because it just seemed right. Put some color on it quickly. I need to do more with color so I can get better at it. Enjoy.

Another Sketch Dump

Here's some sketches I did yesterday just for fun. I was having fun making people out of single blobby shapes. Thought as a whole it looked kind of fun. Enjoy.

Church sketches

I have a sketch book that I take to church with me everyweek. It seems that all my college experience taught me was that I can't pay attention to anyone for more than a couple minutes unless I'm drawing something at the same time. So with that in mind here's a sampling of what I draw. I'm not going to show you most of it, because alot of the sketches are fit only to be seen by me and my wife (she gets to see everything). Anywho, enjoy.

Oh No! A Tiger!

As promised yesterday here's something that's a bit more finished. When I started doing this drawing I really wasn't happy with how it was turning out but now that it's done I think it looks pretty cool. I think it must be the stripes. There's something about the stripes that makes up for my deficiencies elsewhere in the drawing. I think just about anything would be cooler with stripes. Can you think of anything that wouldn't? Enjoy.

faces, faces and more faces

Gosh that title makes it sound like I'm giving you a bunch of faces when in reality it's just five. Still it was pretty fun to just play with some shapes and mess around with styles. Didn't have time to finish one up for you all pretty like. Sorry. Maybe tomorrow I'll do something a bit more finished looking. For now you get faces faces and more faces. Enjoy.

Yet another sketch page

Didn't have alot of time today to color up an image so I just scanned up a page out of my current sketchbook. Not much more to it than that. Enjoy.

Little Pirate

Don't let this guy's size fool you. He's one tough hombre. Most other pirates you see have a peg leg or a hook for a hand, or even an eye patch, but not this pirate, and you know why? Because he doesn't ever lose a fight, that's why. You should see the other pirates that cross his path. Not a pretty picture I assure you. Enjoy.

100 posts!

Wow a hundred posts. Sorry it took so long to get to a hundred. I've got no excuse except for laziness. Looks like I'm getting a bit more on track though doesn't it? This was a drawing I did today nad then quickly colored up. I'm having alot of fun putting more color on these images than just a flat wash. I've been doing this type of thing at work too and it's been really fun and really instructive. Hopefully all of my paintings will benifit from this practice. Enjoy.

Pig

I'm having a really good time painting these up. I'm pretty pleased with the results too. This is a pig I drew this morning. Don't know why. Sometimes you just gotta draw a pig. Enjoy.

Character Sketch

Here's a quick character sketch I did awhile ago. Had a bit of fun coloring it up.I've got a bit of catching up to do it seems. Enjoy.

SOOO COOOOOL!

Something got released on line today that I thought you all might be interested in. If you go to gametrailers.com you can find a movie trailer for the game I worked on. It's not so much a trailer as an intro into the game. When you start playing this movie pops up to get you up to speed on who you are and what's happening. I think it's pretty funny. What do you all think?

Here's the link. http://gametrailers.com/player/21163.html

Enjoy.

More bellhop.

Ok well here's some more of that skeleton bellhop that I did last week. Spent a bit more time coloring him and I have taken away the pencil lines so it's all painted now. I usually fall back on the pencil lines as a crutch and so we'll see what I can do with this thing now. Enjoy.