Watercolor

Oh watercolor, my love. I betrayed you so long for gouache, our rendezvous this evening was glorious.
More details to follow.

(Yes, I'm a creep. It's 2am and I had a few glasses of wine)

OK

Thoughts?

Almost there

Can't decide whether to tighten up the painting on the figure digitally, or paint it and scan it in.

I'm kind of thinking the digital painting ties it in better. .?

Yes I Realize What These Tend to Look Like

Some beginning stages of a few projects:

There's something I like about this stage. It reminds me of a bug collection.

Figure to be added in center, along with concept

This one is an unfinished one about the Egyptian gov't. shutting down the internet and social media sites.

Unfinished work: What happens when I don't have a complete sketch from the beginning. . 

I've got a couple of other projects I'm working on, but I'm too lazy to scan sketches or progress work  because they're traditional, not digital.

My followees

I'm so impressed at all the things my fellow SCAD illustration classmates (alumni) are doing! I also love to see all the similarities in such different work, it's awesome to notice the little things that differentiate the school of illustration that we come from. Keep up the good work!

Cartoonin'

Sketch on how Obama has been calling for more civility in politics.

Pencil/Digital

No concept for this one

Watercolor/Acrylic Ink/Digital

I think I'm going to take the SCAD- SOI challenge for 100 life drawings by mid March. Always good to exercise that! Who's with me?

Old Stuff I haven't Posted

First of all, Merry Christmas Everyone!

And now, a pumpkin I painted for Halloween:

Here are some process shots of a painting I've been working on for WAY too long. I don't like where it's going, maybe that's why I kind of gave up on it. I liked it better in the beginning.

 

 

 

I'm going to try to get the face back to where I was going when I started.

I think I need to start drawing more. I finally have a monitor now and a memory card reader so I'll post more stuff more often!

Chalkin it up

So I'm trying to get into doing some chalkboard signs, as I mentioned earlier and I've had success so far! I recently did this 5' X 8' sign for a restaurant in Jersey City, Satis Bistro. It's a little on the plain side, but a good start I'd say. I've also done a bunch of other stuff for them through my regular job and I think it's shaping up to be a great restaurant and a cozy detour from New York. I took this picture from a nice little write up about them in Jersey City Independent, with more to follow!

I also made that vinyl sign at work!

Messing around in InDesign

I like to pretend that some of the people I draw have come to write memoirs.