A sketch a day...

Sketches I did over the past couple of days for my "sketch a day" determination project. The first one I did while listening to Wolfmother, who I've been obsessed with for the last few weeks...they're just...AWESOME. The second one was just an idea going off of the feather and skull motif that are in my earlier sketches.

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This is my account on Society6.com. I am currently selling one print, "Dirty Fingers" and will add more when I can get some more high quality scans of my work. 

Those dead eyes

This is a colored pencil drawing I did of a still life I set up. Total, this took around 30 hours of work to complete and used up 2 black, 1 dark blue, 2 violet, and 1 tuscan red Prismacolor colored pencils completely, which gave my hands massive cramps.

Oh, Santa...

Here is a recipe I did for Buckeyes, chocolate covered peanut butter balls that my grandma makes. I decided to make it seasonal 1. because of the time of year right now and 2. I might give these out as Christmas cards or gifts.

Art Nouveau robot

 This is an ink on wood panel, though here it's not quite finished. I looked at B-movie posters and decided to depict a robot terrorizing a city with an atomic bomb cloud in the background, but in the style of art nouveau; art nouveau has a lot of pretty women in it, so the biggest contrast I could think of was a destructive robot.

Iron Bank

Here's a sketch I did in a coffee shop downtown with pen while listening to this guy play guitar.

Card ideas

Here are some holiday and Christmas card ideas I have to send out and possibly sell.

Sketching ideas

Here are some sketches I did of an idea I've had recently for a series of ink paintings on wood, mostly inspired by the art of Sam Weber and Marco Mazzoni.

Cadence

This is a watercolor and ink painting I did of my cousin's PTSD dog, Cadence. I have to admit, short fur is very hard to capture in brush strokes.

Counting on Zetalon

These are three page spreads for a 10 counting book for children that I designed, painted, wrote, and put together in 10 weeks. I've sold 10 copies so far and I'm getting more printed to sell in the future.

This is a monster design I created for a monster activity book put out by our SCAD Atlanta Illustration department. I like the initial design, but I think it could use some tightening up and more work before I'll say it's finished.

Pet Parade poster

 This is a poster design I did for the annual Pet Parade put on by the Humane Society. I designed and painted this poster in less than 20 hours which was a ridiculous task, and I my design didn't get picked, but I'm still glad I participated in the 24 hour event.

Watercolor and Ink on paper

Watercolor and ink on hot press watercolor paper. I like to do a lot of things involving the relationship, or struggle, between the organic and synthetic. I know this isn't a new concept, but I think that, nor more than ever, it applies to our everyday lives. Natures struggles to survive among the cold pipes of what man creates, and we have to wonder which one is really in control sometimes...

Acrylic ink on wood

Acrylic Ink and gesso on wood panel. It's the first time I ever tried painting on wood, and I really love it! The texture and bleeding was kind of hard to work with, and I had to keep that in mind when working with transparency and the direction of the brush strokes and lines, but overall I'm really pleased with how it turned out, and I might do more and make it into a series.