Demon Snowman

Jesus!

Happy Easter!

False-Gharial 2

False-Gharial 1

Clown

Yellow Paper Sketch

More sketchy stuff from work.

BBC Sherlock

...and Dr. Watson.

Vacation Sketches

The guy with the cornrows was at the cruise. The others were sitting in the airport.

Another Sketchy Faces (Bonus Sketch)

Another sketchy faces. I drew the sketches when my wife and I went to a vacation cruise. I met a great guy who works on the cruise. He's from Siberia and he loves comics and Frank Frazetta. I shown my sketch book and he shown his sketch book. He drew a sketch in my book. I hope he sends a message for me. Nice guy!

More Sketchy Faces

Used by Pentel Stylo. I like. It's like a dip ink pen. Try it.

American Mutant Apparel 4

Here's the last one for awhile.

American Mutant Apparel 3

Again, here are more American Mutant Apparels. I could make more every day.

American Mutant Apparel 2

More American Mutant Apparel. My students liked this one.

American Mutant Apparel 1

I saw a great website from an illustrator called, Dan Meth.  I found his one page was hilarious.  I thought it was a great idea.  If I need a substitute teacher that project would be easy.  Thank you, Dan Meth.

Sketched Faces

Blah, blah, blah sketches.

Holidaze - Cupid

Here are sketches of Cupid for a character for a comic called Holidaze created by Dave Dellecese and Andy Cieslinski.

Holidaze - Easter Bunny

Here are sketches of Easter Bunny for a character for a comic called Holidaze created by Dave Dellecese and Andy Cieslinski.

Holidaze - Patty

Sketches of a character for a comic called Holidaze created by Dave Dellecese and Andy Cieslinski.

Sketches

I sketched in my office at work. I was sitting looking by the hall.

TheDorkyDaddy - Final Banner

Check out with The Dorky Daddy!

TheDorkyDaddy - Dad & Son

TheDorkyDaddy - Daddy's Logo

TheDorkyDaddy - The Author

This sketch is the author of his website, The Dorky Daddy.

TheDorkyDaddy - Banner - Shetches

Sketches for a banner for a website, The Dorky Daddy.

Madea Sketch

I'm trying to use my new photoshop.  I colored on my monitor with my fingers.  It's like finger paint!

LitGraphic at the Museum

I saw comic pages at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute. It's really great. You can even apply competition entries to another comic page too. Maybe you'll see my panel. Mine is the six panel. The artist who draws the page is Matt Madden.

Madea

Trojans: Mural Finished

Here is the final image. The mural was presented to the school during the graduation ceremony. I heard there was an unavailing. Alas, I was not there. I was on vacation a little early.

Trojans: Colors Applied

The book I've referred to for this project is The Mural Book: A Practical Guide for Educators by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Rochelle Shicoff. The authors recommend using Golden Paints. When I found out that Golden acrylics cost about $25 for an 8 oz. tube I nearly passed a stone. Thank God there was a more affordable option for me at Michael's. I ended up getting Liquitex's students-grade Basics acrylics. They were very creamy and covered a large area. I ended up buying double of what I actually needed. I'd recommend them to anyone. Especially, since they were only $8.99 for an 8 oz. tube. Here's one of the seniors up on the ladder.

So far so good. Next, the kids outline the entire image with black.

Trojans: Traced

I printed a grayscale version of the final image on a transparency sheet and put it on a transparency projector and blew it up on the gymnasium wall. In an earlier experiment I found that using pencils to draw on this type of masonry is not efficient. I needed to sharpen the pencil every 10 seconds. So I thought charcoal sticks or oil pastels might be too messy. It was then I happened to have discovered Korn's Lithographic Crayons hidden in one of my cabinets. They look like they could be 100 years old. Who knows how long they were in there.I had the students trace the projected image with the crayons and it went pretty well.

Trojans: Wall Primed

The area of the gymnasium wall on which the mural will be has been successfully primed thanks to the work of my students. Students and faculty who aren't in the know have been making fun guesses and questions due to the irregular shape of the image. Some have guessed correctly about the spear and arm.

Trojans In Color

As you can see I hacked out some colors in Photoshop to nail down what the final colors will look like.

Trojans In Black & White

Here is the final black and white design. I've never done a mural before and I had no idea where to start so I did an online search for school murals and came across some really great artwork. I cannot take too much credit, though. I did steal some design elements that I thought were amazing from another muralist. I took his sunburst circle background and the ribbon/banner in the front.

Trojans!

I fixed a couple of things and inked these Trojans.

Trojan Warrior Woman

The mural project must include a lady Trojan. So I had to research what a Trojan warrior woman looked like. I found some very interesting cos-players, strange video game designs and some interesting revealing anime characters. I then started researching the goddess of war, Athena, Pallas Athena, and Minerva. That's when I hit reference gold. I sketched three poses and was finally satisfied with the fourth.

Trojan Warrior

My school's senior class wanted to gift the school a mural in the gymnasium. They approached me to help them. There are a couple of problems. First of all it's the end of May and they've just asked me to help. Secondly, I would have to design it because their design isn't fully realized and there's no time to help them flesh it out. Lastly, it's their gift to the school. I'm not doing it for them. I finally decided today that it's too late in the year for them to complete this mural. However, as I started to sketch out my ideas I started getting into it. I may save this as a project for a future class. This first sketch was easy for me. It's a manly Trojan. It's a pretty classic pose. No biggie.

Birthday Girl

Today is my wife's birthday so I thought I'd draw a little portrait of her. The image is taken from one of my favorite photographs of her. Happy Birthday, sweetie!

2011 Grads

This year our school's yearbook adviser made advertising space available to staff. So I bought a space. Above is my ad. featuring caricatures of our school's graduates.

Rick Geary On An Envelope

I love the work of Rick Geary and I also love Recorded Books. I doodled this little homage/plagiarism of Rick Geary's logo for Recorded Books on the back of an envelope I sent to Recorded Books.

Chicken La Maison

"What's for dinner tonight?"
I'll tell you what's for dinner. I made Chicken La Maison for me and the wife. I got the inspiration from the great Stuart Immonen and the recipe from here. Try it. You'll like it. It's as good as it looks.