Ball Point Pen Sketches

I think the ballpoint pen is one of my favorite sketching tools...it's like the pencil of the pen world :P

Coloring Rockheadz

I've been taking a series of traditional pen and ink drawings, scanning them in and coloring them in Photoshop using various approaches.  Really digging what's been coming out from the process and will definitely be doing more.

Grumpy Rocks

Some quick brush and micron pen sketches of some grumpy ole rocks.  :P

It's a Shrimp Ship! ...sorta

I've been trying out some new techniques that I've been learning from a variety of different sources and thought I'd give the ole "scribble ship thumbnail" thing a pass with the new processes.  It's not taken to finish, but mostly because I think the time would be better spent doing the same rendering pass to several other "scribble ship thumbs."  Anyway, here she be!

Been doing some learnin'

I've been watching a bunch of the super dooper awesome Anthony Jones' tutorial videos recently and have been thinking a lot more about edge control in my painting and more intentionally designed shapes in my drawing.  I took this guy from a batch of late night sketches, colored him, and generally worked up parts here and there.  Eventually I had to put it down though, as this guy is only really ever going to be a sketch.  Putting too much work into random bits of things is a bad habit of mine.  That having been said, please feel free to slap me if there are not more of these forthcoming :)

Virtual Plein Air

I found a group on Facebook called "Virtual Plein Air" where the idea was you go to Google Maps/Earth and search out interesting spots via street view or other attached photos.  Really a fun idea, and a great study/practice.  Here are two I've done so far.  I definitely need to work on simplifying and edge work though.  Looking forward to doing more of these.

Signal Hill in Newfoundland

and a spot in Nova Scotia

RIP H.R. Giger

Giger was a true visionary.  His work intrudes itself on our minds in some horribly familiar way, like they are images that hide at the edges of what we want to believe is real.  In a zone made of things we know, but lost and entangled in each other, rude with evidence of their biological natures and viscerally insulting in their enmeshing...but impossible to look away from.  Out of that space he pulled images that seem to step out from a kind of universal subconscious and rendered them into shocking portraits.  He manged one of the greatest feats an artist can hope for.  His vision has become ours.