...in...whatever.

just a sketch to upload since i have nothing better or more exciting.

This is a denizen of Mugs coffee lounge. she's there all the time, and may or may not be a bit more crazy then the most of us.

...in regards to behavioral disorders.

It's been another hard few weeks. Just a few thumbnails and sketches for now.

Work on the "Force of Nature" painting. Slow progress due to refusing to work on it.

"Preoccupation (behavioral disorder)" March 2008

A thumbnail for one of my stories which I may get around to fully illustrating someday, but most likely not so much.

Misc. Life drawings March 2008

...more.

I was doodling a bit and came up with an idea for a weary hero narrative...thing. The hero who is tired from his trials and travels, but who knows he has this one more task...or something lame like that. The problem I am running into is that my antagonist is lame. Just...not doing it for me. I think deciding on the setting will help(I am leaning toward an overgrown, mossy, dark, mirkwood-esque dealy), but I think I am going to go the more "force of nature" route and make the creature itself overgrown and a dangerous and fantastical element of the forest itself. i tried it as just a simple troll type idea and it is very hum drum. I used some vellum and overlayed some horns etc and it's just too...balor.

anyone?

I haven't really been doing much beyond sketching a bit here and there. Projects haven't exactly been slapping in the face so to speak. I have a few screenprints which will be in a limited pressing, but they won't be coming into fruition for a while. Disappointing I know. So, in place of anything better, here are a few selected sketches from my Moleskine.

Altair
Sam "convinced" me to buy Assassin's Creed. By "convinced" I really mean, she mentioned it, and I am a sucker for pretty games. I became a bit addicted and now have to be disappointed that I have to wait around for pt 2 and 3 since I've finished.

Starbucks Portraits

Random sketches

"The Toreador"
I was looking through one of Sam's "Through the lens" books of Ntnl Geographic photos and there was an intense Toreador. I decided to turn it into an illustrator image, this is the sketch for that.

...in keeping up. (and making of the moneys)

"Autumn" - Digital painting/scanned materials - Dec 07

I'm doing very well for once in keeping up as promised with work, and the blog. I am momentarily proud of myself. If anyone recalls, or cares to look back a short ways, I had a poster print called "winter" a while back, which was a sort of digital collage. I've had several requests from random people to buy a print of it, which struck me as a fantastic idea, if only to get my signature floating around out there. So I am in the process of setting up a paypal account, but also in the process of doing more "digital screens". Each will be available as a high resolution 11"x17" digital print for $12. Like I said, the idea is mainly to get my signature out there, and for the novelty of it. By selling them for $12 it isn't exactly as if I am in it for the large bill money. To get each printed on a high quality stock it will cost me about $3, for a mailing tube and postage, probably another $4...so I am in it for about $5 bucks a print.

"Winter" - Digital painting/scanned materials

...in supplement.

Untitled 41 - acrylic/canvas Dec 07

Nothing really to say. I've been drawing much more and enjoying it; but also taking up the mantle of painting again. It hasn't been anything in depth really, I started something when I was walking around nervously tapping my hands and wanting nothing more than to break something...Leah was here so I decided to turn it into something more productive...ish.

I'll start again with real painting I think soon; not just random abstractions to keep my mind on the brush and off of...the things which they tend to fall. I have an 18" x 48" inch canvas that I stretched a month or two back which is sitting under the stairs taunting me like the tell-tale heart. For the moment I am satisfied with painting over old canvases or random masonite / cardboard I find.

...in being a coffee house denizen

Moods - Dec 5 07

so...once again I return after a shorter long while, but a relatively long span nonetheless. On the artistic front, not much new to report. Still trying to figure everything out as best I can. I'm great, then awful, then just surviving, then great again, then horrible...you see the trend. That's just before lunch. I've been writing shortstories a fair bit lately, maybe at some point I will scan them or transcribe into digital media for someone to read. Also I've been teaching myself french, which is going very well. thank you for asking.

I have been in and out of coffeehouses again, doing some sketches. I am still trying to find a style of my own, the best i can come up with as a style, i'm not entirely satisfied with...I want to be an illustrator, and graphic novelist, but not a comic book artist ya? but most of my work is very outline intensive...we'll keep at it. For once i feel like my drawing is GOING somewhere. I've had to do a bit of a u-turn in life in the past 5-6 months because I realized that my life had gotten a bit bleak. Since the turn around I feel much better as a person, my climbing as gotten stronger in leaps and bounds (although we'll see with the recent return of my good ol crap knee injury) but also I feel, parallel to my climbing, I've marked improvement in almost everything, including drawing, and drawing quickly, or getting closer to that thing I want from my "art". Unfortunately, the turn around bore a promise, which has been the only questioningly unsatisfying aspect...Do not get me wrong, I've stuck to my promise, and I believe I've done well. Change in attitude was for her...but it was also for me...but I had this foolish hope that being what I should have been all along would lead to her taking me back. Alas...I must resign to siphoning the specific stolen happiness which only she gives me, and I suspect only she ever could, but doing so in a way which I almost think she feels guilty for. It's not like I lose sleep over it. I didn't sleep before...(lie)

anyway...the important stuff. the art. (so called)

Mugs Coffeehouse Sketches Nov 29 07




Misc Sam sketches : "Sleepwalking" (bottom) Dec 4 07




"Leah" Dec 2 07




Misc: (top) "Julie" Nov 07