another sketch.

This is a drawing from a photo I came across of toulouse lautrec. Wait... I'll just post the photo too. It's hilarious!

Here's a sketch for another painting I'll be doing soon. There is more going on in the final composition. This sketch was frustrating me and it probably comes threw. I need to do these sketches in rapid succession and not get hung up on just one. They're just studies for the final painting, but sometimes I get hardheaded and want to fight a drawing into submission. It's a fight a rarely win. Anyways I plan on getting some more done tonight and tomorrow.

Here's a sketch for the next painting. It's a commission. This is a little outside my comfort zone but I kinda excited about this painting. I going to get a chance to try my hand at that rippley, reflective water that people paint. There is alot going on in this painting but I think I can be pretty loose and free, have fun and paint fast. We'll see.

I was actually laughing outloud when I first drew this. It was inspired by something on the wall at a coffee shop. That hand and arm is my "fred flintstone" arm that I learned in the 3rd grade, or there abouts.
I drew this at a Drink and Draw event. I won a $50 gift certificate to a tattoo parlor but I gave it to this guy who worked at the corner store. I was never going to get around to using it. BUt the whole tusk thing evolved a little,... or devolved. I like the little girl better.

Just another typical sketch from me to you.

Willie!, you were always on my mind.

these are some sketches for some paintings I'll soon start. Hopefully this weekend.

This was the first illustration I did since graduating college, pretty much. When I say illustration, I mean, it was done on board, using techniques I learned in college, and geared towards print media. Me and a friend challenged each other to get a piece done a month that was in line with the direction we were trying to expand our art. Another short lived but great idea. So this is what I did and it was loosely based on the sketch below. For the most part I just dove in with no plan as to how it would turn out.

I felt like I needed to get back to the sketchbook, so I did this tonight while I ate at village pizza. Guess what?, I ate pizza. So, I have been a complete failure when it comes to my sketchbook lately. I've been drawing in these sketchbooks that have traditional book bindings and clothey cardboard covers for the past 6 or so years. I don't know anybody but me who likes this style of sketchbook. So I bought some different ones. A moleskin and one with a spiral binder. Well, I wasn't the best drawer before and then I turned into a four year old with all thumbs. I've talked enough about this and hopefully my sketching will improve. I feel fine about this drawing but more importantly it came pretty easily so this might be the end of my drawing slump.

From the sketch book