Time for some art. Recent painting done for fun, a few brushstrokes at a time over the course of several months. Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 8×8 inches.

It was a pleasure doing this pro-bono job for my buddy & colleague John Blondell at Westmont College. When John asked me if I would be interested in doing the poster for a series of six short plays by Samuel Beckett, I had only one condition: as long as it could be a portrait of [...]

Here are a few figure drawings from recent class sessions, all of them 2-minute poses, using charcoal on smooth newsprint. I live by the Conté a Paris Pierre Noire combination charcoal/conte pencils, sharpened to a razor point with a single-edged blade. They’re getting harder to find these days, but you can still get them [...]

Studies for an illustration I’m working on right now, done with prismacolor on vellum. I love drawing with prisma pencils, they glide on the paper in a way that is really appealing to me.
Rare that an illustration deadline will allow for the time for such luxuries as exploring different head options, but I have over [...]

The issue containing this illustration has now seen print, so I can now show it in its entirety, as well as show the process steps. Above is the final illustration as it saw print.
The article was simply about reversals in the NASDAQ market. With that basic concept in mind, I set about trying to figure [...]

I was asked by friend and colleague Mitchell Thomas at Westmont College if I would create the poster for their next production, a play written by one of our own college students, Diana Small. Muéveme, Muévete (Move Me, Move You) is written in the tradition of Latin-American magical realism, and concerns a young woman and [...]

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.