Crackling Technique.

I did this technique with the class that I'm teaching. It's basically a technique to make sure your art isn't going to be around in 30 years by putting water-based paint over oil-based paint over water-based paint.

Sketches.

Here are a few sketches for projects that I am working on right now.

I am tired of the detail my newest images have gone into and am moving back towards large shapes.

This image needs to regress back to simpler shapes. This is tonight's project.

Last is mister cat for Dana. Someday, I'll finish this one.

BOOM, it's ACTUALLY a monster!

Few sketches from my concept design class and some from the sketchbook project.

el hombre

This is a man I drew on tracing paper a few weeks ago. I was about to toss the image when I thought I'd just cut it out and tape it into one of my sketchbooks. Then my eye fell on my cup of Prismacolor markers. All the color is done on the back of the tracing paper, and the pen is on the front.

Colored pencil and marker drawings of kids in my class.

I had to lead an extra help session in my class this morning. While bored, I did this. Marker, colored pencil, graphite.

hmph.

disgruntled looking male model.

Moobs

And it's me, the darker side of the moon! These aren't monsters, I have plenty of those to post later, but some of these random (except for Noro) ladies were sketched today during our little sketch get-together. Done with a cheapo pilot pen; medium of choice back when I was like 6-12. Enjoy them!!!

Hey Noro, I miss you.

Apparently, the lady on the right is Krishna.

Note: the boob-hug.

Boom! It's a GorGor!

I did these GorGors in Fall 2007, so they're a little old, but they're monsters and I quite like them. The ones on the coasters are ink and pen. The rest are watercolor and pen on paper.

Boom! It's a Blog!

These are the masters of the sky. They rule the stratosphere with a steel fist.





I have been drawing a lot of absurd animals lately and these are the newest.

Mini moleskine menagerie

Mark, Lauren and I went to Barnes and Noble today to hang out, sketch, and just have fun doing nothing school related; and we did plenty of that in the 3-4 hours we were sitting at the Starbucks in BN. During that time we decided we wanted to have a joint blog and we named it after a conversation we overheard. This older gentleman was at the counter saying something to the barista, and the parts we heard were:
"I just swallowed 4 icecreams. I'm very cool."
and
"I was walking down a path, and BOOM! its a monster... its your father."

The three of us kept cracking up every time one of us said "BOOM its a monster." We liked it enough to name the blog after it. :)

Some drawings I did at BN in my mini moleskine which I had taken apart, soaked the pages in coffee and rebound about a month ago before starting any work in it.

Note: I was a little too excited to post on the blog, so the pictures are taken with my phone that randomly downsizes, so some of the images are smaller when you actually click on them (which doesnt make any sense to me).

Old man who eating something from the Barnes and Noble Starbucks.


Girl studying at a table.


Mark.


Random girl on the left. Lauren on the right.