Work In Progress

My wife and I colored these "Color Blanks^(tm)" (Roseart) for our kids over the last couple of nights and all were pleased with the results. I guess this technically falls more into the "craft" category (as opposed to art) but nevertheless we had fun and I thought I would share. In the background, several more "blanks" stand ready to be designed.

I sketched this character a short while ago and then recently did some color work on it. Not finished, but saving this snapshot of it.

I've been messing around in Illustrator a lot lately. I am somewhat intrigued by this little abstract illustration that I've been working on and so I decided to post it.

Obviously this is incomplete, but this piece jumped out of an old sketchbook at me and commanded that I scan and upload it immediately. Enjoy. Incidentally, I did used to be a (heavy) smoker but have quit 3 years ago now. However, note that the title is not meant to be "preachy" in any way, only humorous.

This image is related to the "A Wild Thing" post of last week. The "(R2)" in the title relates to the revision state of the piece (in this case, the image has been updated, a background has been added), as well as being the second "release" or publication of the image. Read more for related Site News.  read more »

This sketch wants to stomp right off of the page, apparently. This reminds me of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are. I always loved that book as a kid. I may have to develop this further.

Hurray for works in progress! Often lately it is the difference between posting anything or not. I am having a rough time deciding which color scheme to go with for this because many different color palettes seem to work equally well. Or my eyes might just be getting wonky from staring at Photoshop, Flash and Homesite for 9 hours straight today at work.

Yet another unfinished old sketch. I think it has potential and I plan to work with it when I get the time. I've just been ridiculously busy as of late and [insert excuses here].  read more »

I just got back from a brief trip so this post is late. This sketch/idea will definitely be developed further. It needs some color work for the main figure and some shading work as well, but overall I think it's a great start to an interesting piece. It's also a really old drawing so the categories/tags will likely be changing around here soon.

I received two guitars in the mail last week (from different sources and for very different reasons, but it's a long and irrelevant story) and so my attention has been somewhat diverted the last few days. More of the same can be expected for this busy Halloween weekend. So here's something at least, albeit belated and incomplete.