reviving the Boom.

Dining room table at my friend's apartment in Jersey City.  

View from my cousin's balcony in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Both done in June 2010 in my sketchbook with pen and watercolor.

Self Portraits

I'm sitting in Borders with a computer and a sketchbook and I want to draw a self portrait. I decided to use Photobooth on my computer because I didn't have a mirror.

Skeches from the past few weeks

on location sketches for Drawing for Illustrators
watercolor and pen in Moleskine watercolor folio
8.5 x 12 inches

Mark

Mark making marks.

Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time...

Here are two head studies I did of Freddie Mercury for the celebrity project in Illustration Markets.

Drawings from sketchbook 12

Trying to come up with ideas for a young adult portfolio, I drew a sketch of Sabriel from the book Sabriel.

And this might be the most clever thing I have ever drawn.
Both of these were taken with my phone. I'll post some good scans when I actually scan this sketchbook.

Mr. Boomitsamonster!

Mr. Boomitsamonster x4 (the middle picture has him with a monster!)

Blind contours of Mark and Erin.

All in pen and some marker.

Sketches of classmates during presentations

Right: random at Starbucks.
Left: Mark.

Right: Judy.
Left: Mark.

Right: Salwa
Left: my mind-friends

Left and Right and Center: Ben, at different angles.

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.

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.

hmph.

disgruntled looking male model.

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.

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.