Tattoo - Fighting Temptation

A tattoo design I did over the last couple of weeks. The theme given me was "Fighting Temptation" that should include booze, women, and drugs. The design would begin just above the wrist of the forearm (therefore hidable), twisting up and out toward an existing tattoo on the client's elbow. The concept conveys the contrast between battling against personal temptations, and being consumed by them. Likewise, the two states are are flipped and pulling away from each other. Doves and crows, hope and gloom, are thrown in for good measure. The client's existing elbow tattoo will, after some future modification, represent the birth of his daughter - marking the event that changed his life and the transition to more uplifting tattoos on the upper arm sometime in the future. Enjoy :-)

Imps and Goblins

I've been able to complete some projects over the last couple of weeks. Here are some images done for a potential low budget goblin film. Doing the armor was challenging. I haven't spent much time drawing armors, but I enjoyed glimpsing into medieval armor to better understand how armor works at the joints, how it's fastened, and such. I also learned how trebuchets worked too. It's neat the way being asked to draw something very specific can lead you to learn about stuff you would otherwise never think about. It's also easy for me to get carried away reading about it :-) I finished up some tattoo designs (just the designs, I am not a tattoo artist) last week and will have them on here soon.

Blog Issues, and a New Creature

I've been on the fence over whether to stick with a Wordpress blog or fully move to this Blogspot. In the end, I was dealing with way too many spam comments on Wordpress. So, tada! Blogspot it is. Here's a creature I've been working on lately. I began the drawing on a return flight from Los Angeles to Denver with a ballpoint and decided to switch to pencils so as to really spend some time refining it. I'll have to take it into Photoshop at some point to clean it up at some point, but I'm still deciding where to take it ultimately.

A Few Animals Meet Each Other

I felt the urge to mix a few animals together and came up with this: a bear, cow, bear, and maybe goat thing - owing to the four horns that appear here similar to how they appear on Jacob Goats/Sheep. I've been taking my time on this one, trying to crank out a little more than an average quick sketch for myself. Here also is life drawing from Starbucks on this rainy May 10 (June 2nd was a completely unrelated personal note to myself :-P ). Thanks for stopping by!

Big Red Dave

I'm finally feeling settled into my new home, new job at starbucks, and my routine overall. Last month my backpack was stolen, along with an almost-filled sketchbook. Kind of a bummer to have lost all those ideas, but more amazingly, my laptop, digital camera, AND checkbook were safely returned to me! Thank God. Here are a few pages spread out in my new sketchbook.

At the Tivoli food court on the Auraria Campus.














For these I imposed goblin features onto random shapes. Was pretty fun.




















My good friend Dave strumming away on the banjo (not present here).

Drone with a Neck Brace

Did a random sketch on the back of a dorm lobby sign-in sheet during a break between tasks. Ballpoint and highlighter were readily available. When "randomly" doodling I almost always revert to the robotic-type characters I grew through the end of high school. So fun. All of the highlighters were kind of old and dry, so the color had a kind of rough texture. The colors are kind of "Metroid." Makes me want to experiment some more with limiting the colors to highlighters. The animal sketches in the bottom right of the page were unfortunate byproducts of it being a sketch in a public lobby :-)

BIOHAZARD

This might more accurately be called, "space marine knockoff...in a downtown." Sure was fun. I really enjoyed drawing the curvy, more organic bulk suit. I drew him on paper before "inking" him in Photoshop and painting in values. The buildings (to be finished later) were done entirely digitally. Still learning the software, but it's beginning to set in. :-)