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. :-)

Mr and Mrs. Bones

This was a piece done in over the course of two class periods. Got it to this point yesterday afternoon. Sorry for the picture quality. Gotta get me a nice camera :-)

There were two sources of light, one in white light and the other a bright green glow coming from Mr. Bones' direction. I had a lot of fun doing the ribs and folds in the dress.

Friar Harris

Preparing to paint this for next week. If I had a fireplace, and a mantle above it, this would eventually go over that mantle over that fireplace. My initial idea was just to paint a costumed character, but turned into a very literal and goofy take on "moral dilemma." Posing is my gracious friend, who agreed to shave his hair in the style of the Franciscan Monks, of which he already owned a costume.

Few more sketches...

The semester is winding down. One more week! So much to do. Here are some "leisurely" drawings from over the past month.

Pff. Right. Leisure.

All ballpoint.

Getting some practice drawing my surroundings at the Underground Cafe at RMCAD.

An archer of sorts...

My attempt at using one line to draw the booth nearby.

I couldn't decide if this guy was strengthened or imprisoned by the metal encapsulating his body. Didn't think it through.

Mi amigo, Abraham. Allen was sitting behind him but decided to move and ruin everything. Thanks Allen.

Baahh! Fall 2009

Graphite drawing for an editorial-like project last semester. The article expressed that in the wake of growing distrust of larger entities, like the government, banks, and the church, there is a personal distrust growing between most Americans. The idea here was simply that the sheep, usually led astray by wolves in sheep clothing,no longer trust even each other.

This project didn't fully reach completion, but I'm hoping to have some color versions of this done in Photoshop soon.