Ok, so things have finally calmed down enough for me to finally post again. Time to make good on my promise and do a nice thorough process post.
The assignment was a poster image for Westmont College, for their upcoming Christmas Festival concert. I was given the sub-theme of “Lo How a Rose” and told to [...]

Man, I am pathetic at keeping this blog updated with regularity. I promise to do better from here on out.
Working on a fun illustration project right now, and I’m carefully documenting all kinds of stages of it for a nice long process post. But as it’s still in process, I’ll just post a teaser for [...]

Can’t believe I let two weeks slip by without posting. I blame the Olympics. Thanks for destroying my work output for a solid week, Michael Phelps.
Since friend and illustrator Scott Bakal called me out in the comments section of my last post over the fact that I’m not exactly doing sketches per se in my [...]

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Some more quick sketch figure drawings, probably 2-3 minute poses. Charcoal on smooth newsprint.

Study of a human skull. Continually trying to improve my knowledge of human anatomy and form, and that means studying skeletal structure. Charcoal on smooth newsprint.

chicken

oil on gatorboard, 8×10 inches
My good friends Jeff & Kathleen Sieck live up in Santa Ynez, which is basically the cowboy version of Santa Barbara. In keeping with the unspoken moral code of their rural surroundings, they’ve got their own chicken coop, and one day Jeff sent me a great photo of one of their [...]