Portrait Day 2010

Quick scribble for National Self Portrait Day 2010.
Drawn in front of a mirror; Age 26
Marker on paper
Pencil, white paint on paper
Color Correction and detailing in Photoshop

NYC with O'Plenty and the Vilppus Pt 3

And here is the last of the NYC updates. It's actually a duplicate post. I had difficulty seeing my drawing in the Museum lighting; dark paper and museum lighting aren't the greatest friends in the world. Anyway, I had a chance to punch up the drawings when I got home, so here it is - the last of this batch! Off to the mall probably to people watch and doodle.

NYC with O'Plenty and the Vilppus Pt 2

Animal doodles from the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. Part of the trip with O'Plenty and the Vilppus.

NYC with O'Plenty and the Vilppus Pt 1

I had the day off Thursday, so I headed to NY to meet up with the guys from O'Plenty and the Vilppus. Arrived at Port Authority early, so stopped for a quick breakfast and coffee. Couldn't help myself, pulled out the sketchbook and started doodling like crazy. Here are a few of the patrons from the cafe where I grabbed my meal. Incidentally, ran a bit late meeting up with the rest of the group. Oops. I just couldn't help myself! The people around me had the most amazing hair!

New York Comic-Con 2010

A few sketches from New York Comic-Con and one from New Hampshire.

The great Maestro, Glenn Vilppu during a demonstration

SKETCHES FROM NYCC:

Australia Sketch Journal

A little blast from the past. After doing a bit of botanical detective work for a friend of mine, I felt the need to go dig up my sketch journal from 2005's Australia project with ISV.

As it turns out, the rather gigantic, unidentified plant happily growing to tremendous proportions was a verbascum thapsus or the Common/Great Mullein. Put even more simply, giant, homeopathic weed.

As a result, I've scanned old drawings from the airport as well as the plant pictures from the field. These were done in a freezing cold heatless cabin in Victoria Australia. Most of them were taken from our base location near an Aluminium Smelting plant. Very neat stuff.

To view further botanical images from the Australia trip, click here

A lil' Come and Get It

This is a piece submitted to Bobby Chiu's Trap-themed contest over at Sketchoholic.

I was hoping to go for an old-school Pulp-esque sort of thing. There are things that worked and things that didn't. Getting back into painting still feels good. Ended up cropping about three inches off of the right side of the painting and going in with an India pen.

I saved the line work and may eventually do a digital paint.

Also, this is not some weird tentacle fetish. She is a decoy. Like those little bio-luminescent lightbulb bits on deep-water fish. Maybe in the digital version she will be illuminated!

*Post originally published 28 July 2010