Pen and Ink

Hundreds

I had the awesome opportunity to do another graphic for the Hundreds!
The concept was to illustrate a devilish angel (or angelic devil) character in the style of those classic cartoons we all used to watch growing up...

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Blog-neglectitus

The perfect remedy for "Blog-neglectitus": Drawing Club sketches!

Watercolor practice...

Practicing some techniques learned from John Quinn's watercolor class:

Astronaut Dreams

A little while ago I had the chance to do this illustration for the Hundreds. The concept given to me was to depict a little kid playing with his dog, dreaming of being an astronaut. The nostalgic "Dick and Jane" feel points to the fact that it's hard to find kids now days that still dream up homemade spaceships and suits. Awesome concept Bobby!


Final illustration:


Concept sketches:



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Smash Ups

Here's a cool exercise that our team tried at work: Take 2 or more Disney properties, then mix, mash, stir, etc.. to come up with something different.

Mine was Wall-E + Tron =.....

Viva LA Art Show

Here's my contribution to the Silent Charity Art Auction for Viva LA Art!

My Name is Earl

From the Drawing Club's long pose, an amazing model named Earl!



This is the same model that inspired a clay sketch from awhile ago)

Eaton Canyon

The weather got warm enough to venture outside for a painting session at Eaton Canyon.




~6" x 7.5", Acrylic on illustration board

CDC Sketches

These are from our CDC Drawing group at work. It stands for Corner Drawing Club (as Craig Mackay clarified, not to be confused with the Center for Disease Control)..basically because whoever wants to, meets on the corner outside the building to draw.
I got inspired by a post on the Drawn blog which showed Brenden Wetzel's quick sketches using watercolor and pen. I'm not sure which he did first, but I really admired how the watercolor captured the gesture shape while the pen added the expression.

I tried my own version which was really fun and different. I chose to do the watercolor first to try to capture the shapes and silhouettes of people walking by and waiting for the light to change. I didn't add too much pencil, but I'm sure I'll experiment more with this in the future.
Here are a few sketches, and one caricature of Kelvin.

2010 Catch-up

It's been awhile! Here's some ink drawings from a previous Drawing Club session:
Cruella de Ville!

Friday Drawing Challeges

Here are a few more pictures from October's Drawing Challenges (3 randomly picked words yield a drawing):

Rhino/Castle/Monster:


Vampire/Coil/"Little Freak":

Annie Oakley

Great theme from Drawing Club!

Drawing Club Catch-up

Some recent Drawing Club sketches....

Art of Princess Book is in!

The new Disney's Art of Princess book is available!

It was pretty amazing to see how each artist (and some very talented DCP friends) interpreted the well-known characters in different styles and media, resulting in some fantastic art pieces. Also, on a more personal level, Disney's Princesses were definitely a big part of my childhood. Besides being a big fan of the movies and music, I think the heroines represented hope of a "Happily Ever After" to my girlfriends and I...whether that meant finding true love, overcoming obstacles, or not being afraid to pursue a dream.
Being a part of this project was definitely a dream come true for me!

Watercolor sketches

These are from last Thursday's Drawing Club


watercolor and pencil, ~3" x 4"

Friday Drawing

Kelvin, co-worker extraordinaire, devised a plan to get people out of their cubes and into the drawing mood. Each week they pull 3 random words from a hat and have one week to come up with a concept. Then, Friday morning, the works are pinned up and shared. It's just like school again! This is my first contribution: POLICE, WAR and WATER-Y....um yeah.

Smoky Sunset

oil, digital on canvas paper, ~5" x 3"

Head Drawings

Head Sketches

~3", graphite on Bristol

Pasadena Sunset

Tonight's sunset was too good to pass up...

watercolor in moleskin

French Maid

Here are some watercolors from Drawing Club...

VivaLA Art Show

I was very honored to be invited to participate in the VivaLa Art Show this past Saturday. All proceeds went to the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles; and even though I wasn't able to make it, I heard from the organizer Eddie Tsang that they raised over 13,000! Congrats Eddie and thanks for letting me contribute!

Here's my piece (since the charity benefited children, I went with a children's book cover theme (one of my favorites) :


Thanks to Bobby Hundreds for the picture!

Va Voom

Here was a Drawing Club session..the model looked like she stepped out of a Frazetta painting!