4EELS

Strength

2005-11-16T07:33:00.000-08:00

It takes a lot of strength to turn your back on a loved one who just hurts you too much.

[side-note: i'd love to get that tattooed on my back for real!]

Night

2005-11-09T09:35:00.000-08:00

Just some sketches for this week's topic....

Lost

2005-10-13T14:15:00.000-07:00

I got the idea for this weeks Illustration Friday topic from something that happened a few years ago.

I was living in Tampa, Florida at the time and one morning on my way to class at University, I noticed a bright pink Flamingo flying around over-head. It struck me as odd that one solitary flamingo would be flying around, considering they are flocking birds. It also struck me as odd that he was so very pink. I've seen wild flamingo's and not very many are as shocking pink as ones you'd see in a zoo.

I never heard anything again about the flamingo, either on television or the interweb.

It was altogether quite odd....

[I started working on this one at a really large size (7.5"x17") so the thumbnail view may look a bit crap]

Here's the original ink drawing I started off with...

Float

2005-09-30T11:34:00.000-07:00

My man Toots looking all young an' ting'.

I did the original artwork as black & white line art, but I'm going to screen print this if I can find some larger scraps of the old paper that I scanned for the background texture.

Here's the original b/w line-art

Happy Bithday Luigi!

2005-09-13T12:30:00.000-07:00

Although he made his debut in Donkey Kong in 1981, September 13 is Mario's official birthday according to Nintendo. 20 years ago he starred in his first adventure, Super Mario Bros. alongside his brother....whatshisname....

update - Nintendorks.com got linked from one of my favorite websites... KOTAKU

Roots

2005-09-08T15:08:00.000-07:00

When I think roots, it takes me back to scrawling and scribbling in the back of my notebooks in high-school. I lots them all years ago, so I started a new one for this weeks illustration fridaytopic.

....this one time, I sent my my mind under the ground, and this is what he brought back to me.

I shall have to slide this in, because from this seed, my creativity grew and my life changed drastically when I decided to get back into drawing.

This is the end result of a doodle I started while on the telephone. It was the first drawing I had done in over 6 years (this was 6 years ago). I was in University at the time, studying Computer Science and very bored with it. When I finished this, I felt stronger about taking up a creative profession than I ever had in my life. I haven't looked back since!

Regatta Time!

2005-09-07T15:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a t-shirt design I just finished for the North Eleuthera Regatta.

The job was designated as a 6-color spot-color print on white tees, so that's the reason for the sparse coloring, but it will be printed with fluorescent inks at the beginning of next week. I'll post it when I'm done!

Long Lost Sketch

2005-08-31T08:23:00.000-07:00

For the life of me, I cannot find the original of this drawing anywhere in the sketchbook it came from. I hope whoever I gave it to has kept good care of it.

[This image is from a scan done when it was first completed]

Dreams

2005-08-26T07:51:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd use something I did a while ago for this topic. A few years ago, I would have these recurring dreams of being a female toddler -- this was naturally a bit weird for an adult male to fully understand, but I came to a realization about the little girl in my dreams.

I tied her in directly with my newfound creativity and it's development. I drew this picture of her, and saw it as a sign that I was in the infancy of realizing my true potential as an artist.

Years have passed and every now and then I draw her again, slightly older and slightly more -- complex. Things are going well between she and I...we are both growing and we are both happy.

~

Reflection

2005-08-26T07:46:00.000-07:00

When I was much much younger, I would run around the house in my underwear with a tie wrapped around my head, pretending to be a Ninja.

For those of you with keen eyes, you will not the plastic replica of He-Man's Sword of Power that the kid is playing with :)

I found myself a bit rushed this week and didn't get to color this with as much depth as I'd liked to.

Oh well...

Wisdom

2005-08-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

Screw you guys...I'm going Ohm.

bonus!

EMPTY

2005-08-15T13:54:00.000-07:00

I've been reading MAD magazine for a long time now, and recently have been unhealthily obsessed with all things Alfred E. Neuman.

Here's my submission for Illustration Friday's "EMPTY" topic.

It's a little late, but I had loads of fun doing it.

Traced and coloured in Freehand from a quick pen sketch.

Aging

2005-08-05T09:49:00.000-07:00

I Made this for my girlfriend's brithday card last May.

I wanted to give it a Victorian era feeling but the background was rushed. I still dig on the bird-cage visuals though...

Tranquility

2005-07-28T13:16:00.000-07:00

a quick & dirty variation on a sketch I did...

Karma

2005-07-20T08:38:00.000-07:00

(click for larger view)

Karma eats itself...

Doesn't look like I'll have it colored in time for friday, but I still plan to mess around with it this weekend.

BTW, those are definitely NOT Chameleons :)

Girlfriend Adulation

2005-07-14T10:20:00.000-07:00

I got my doodle on last night and churned this page out.

Metropolitan

2005-07-13T11:33:00.000-07:00

The Royal Academy of Arts - Picadilly Circus
click for detailed view

Hero

2005-07-01T06:37:00.000-07:00

Sorry I've missed the past few weeks. I've taken a second job and time is against me! I did, however, like this 10 minute sketch I did enough to submit for the current topic.

My girlfriend got me a nifty brush-tipped pen from MUJI in London and I've been playing with it.

Digital

2005-06-09T15:52:00.000-07:00

My first time participating in Illustration Friday.
[click on the image for larger version]

Hi.

2005-06-08T10:16:00.000-07:00

I'm new.

I figured I'd start a weblog for my miscellaneous illustrations.

If you're interested, I use any of the following tools on every illo I create:
- Pens & Pencils
- Freehand MX
- Photoshop
- Adobe Streamline