SKETCHBOOK #51, 11/20/11

Does anyone remember Guwange? I thought those games were totally cool, they don't make 'em like that anymore.

SKETCHBOOK #50, 11/20/11

Just a quick sketch.

SKETCHBOOK #49, 11/18/11

Even in a gesture drawing or a contour drawing, the foreshortening should feel real, the forms solid. It's a challenge, for me anyway.

SKETCHBOOK #48, 11/18/11

A gesture drawing that may find its way into something larger.

SKETCHBOOK #47, 11/18/11

Another gesture drawing.

SKETCHBOOK #46, 11/18/11

Vital lines too.

SKETCHBOOK #45, 11/18/11

Of all of the different ways I've learned to draw, I think simple gesture drawing is the most challenging for me. My girlfriend said yesterday's drawing should be called Vital Signs, I think of gesture drawings as vital lines.

SKETCHBOOK #44, 11/17/11

Is Choronos nipping at my heels? Nah, just a little change of pace.

SKETCHBOOK #44, 08/16/11

A couple of gesture drawings, these were thirty second poses.

SKETCHBOOK #43, 07/09/11

I don't really have a rote process. This one has planes drawn in but not filled in, sometimes I do it that way.

SKETCHBOOK #42, 06/21/11

Someone kept walking by and saying, 'That's an interesting drawing.'

SKETCHBOOK #41, 5/22/11

After a very busy weekend, I got out some charcoal and this is more or less what happened.

SKETCHBOOK #40, 4/22/11

Just a figure drawing, I don't know what the arrow was for, either.

SKETCHBOOK #39, 4/20/11

A happy little contour drawing.

SKETCHBOOK #38, 04/18/11

CHICKS. It's why we became artists, after all.

SKETCHBOOK #37, 04/15/11

Yes, that's her, yes, there's a story there, and yes, my lips are sealed on that one.

SKETCHBOOK #36, 02/17/11

This is another concept work from my previously mentioned long-standing project, which I have begun working on again.

SKETCHBOOK #35, 11/04/10

Figure drawings done with brush and India ink.

SKETCHBOOK #34, 10/15/10

This is figure drawing number something or other. 

SKETCHBOOK #33, 10/07/10

A concept for a project of mine I haven't worked on in awhile. Saw some birds this morning that brought it to mind.

SKETCHBOOK #32, 9/01/10

This was a little watercolor sketch I did when I was on a mermaid kick. I had a friend who fancied herself as one, and I didn't disagree.

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SKETCHBOOK #31, 8/30/10

This is another one from my series. Her extra eye is not her own.

SKETCHBOOK #30, 8/18/10

SKETCHBOOK #29, 8/18/10

Here are more of my notes from a yield meeting. I used a pencil, a ballpoint pen with the company logo on it, a pink hilighter and some correction film.

SKETCHBOOK #28, 7/18/10

I've been doing some figure drawing. This was a 30 second pose.

SKETCHBOOK #27, 6/17/10

Do I draw men? Yes, I do.

SKETCHBOOK #26, 6/15/10

An improvised perspective sketch of an imaginary city.

SKETCHBOOK #25, 6/15/10

This is what my notes from marketing meetings used to look like.

SKETCHBOOK #24, 6/11/10

This is a dry brushed ink drawing. Very small and very quick. It was an early concept for a project I was doing about a cold, cold city.

SKETCHBOOK #23, 6/10/10

I seldom draw with a pen, but it's a great exercise in control. You have to be spot on.

SKETCHBOOK #22, 5/11/10

This is a watercolor of my friend Mary, who is herself a wonderful watercolorist. I hope she feels I did her justice.

SKETCHBOOK #21, 05/06/10

Some drawing I was doing while moving. Inspiration grabs us unawares.

SKETCHBOOK #20, 04/12/10

Some heads I was drawing today, pretty much for the hell of it before I leave town for the weekend.

SKETCHBOOK #19, 03/14/10

This was something I drew screwing around with Harmony, a really cool HTML5-based procedural drawing tool.

SKETCHBOOK #18, 02/28/10

This is a drawing I did on my iPhone this week, yet another for my series.

SKETCHBOOK #17, 02/15/10

I was doing ink drawings this morning, trying to get my hand back in. This is a character from a different project I've got on the back burner.

SKETCHBOOK #16, 02/14/10

Something a little different; this is sometimes what an undeveloped drawing looks like. Another one for my series.

SKETCHBOOK #15, 02/05/10

This is a little study from my sketchbook for a painting that I'm working on, a little sketchier in the true sense of the word.

SKETCHBOOK #14, 1/10/10

I should probably throw this one in too. This is a little water color study of a friend. I was doing a very large piece for which she was the muse and these little drawings kept seeping out on the side.



SKETCHBOOK #13, 1/10/10

I honestly don't remember who this is. I liked the drawing though.

SKETCHBOOK #12, 1/10/10

Just a quick figure drawn in watercolor for no good reason at all.

SKETCHBOOK #11, 1/10/10

This was a preliminary concept I did for myself, I was working on an independent film project. Takeout order and Chastity by me, the jellyfish was drawn by the voluminous Jill Karla Schwartz.

SKETCHBOOK #10, 12/21/09

More rough stuff from my drawing this month, working on faces.

SKETCHBOOK #9, 12/21/09

Another study for a potential piece in my series.

SKETCHBOOK #8, 11/21/09

From my drawing this week, ideas churning for these pictures I'm doing. That's the Spanish word alas, not the English word alas. I spray these with fixative and have realized my sketchbook is getting highly incendiary.

SKETCHBOOK #7, 11/14/09

I used to do (very) independent comic books. I guess maybe I would like to again, someday.

SKETCHBOOK #6, 11/14/09

From last week's sketchbooking. Part of my series? Possibly. Also maybe just a drawing.

SKETCHBOOK #5, 11/10/09

This is a drawing for a painting I'm working on. It's part of something inspired by The Tale of Genji.

SKETCHBOOK #4, 11/05/09

This was something I saw on the web and knocked out real quick while I was waiting for something else. If you took the photo, please don't sue me! Just good old 2 HB.

SKETCHBOOK #3, 11/05/09

Panda eyes, raccoon eyes . . . I dunno. Drawn with charcoal on newsprint.

SKETCHBOOK #2, 10/29/09

This is a drawing for a larger piece, just pencil.

SKETCHBOOK #1, 10/29/09

A pencil drawing. Not for anything in particular, but fun to do.

SKETCHBOOK #0, 09/25/09

A figure I did with my logo slapped on. I was doing a lot of old school brushed charcoal drawing over the winter last year.