In Awe

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven.

amandala baumuntu

This is a logo that my wife designed and I drew up for my friend's upcoming trip to Africa. I believe amandala baumuntu means "the power of one." Very cool. You can check out their blog on the link to the right. Who knows, they might have room for one more...

Vegetables & Fruit

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An elderly Elf

This was inspired by an old guy I saw hanging out in the pharmacy today. The old guy wasn't an elf though.
The elf part came from my desire to draw/paint like all those fantasy painters do. Crazy stuff!!

Sad

This turned out to be kind of a sad surfer dude. Maybe he missed the greatest wave ever.... and then his cat got hit by a stupid kid on a tricycle.

Today

This is kinda how i felt today. Like I was in this intense battle, striving for my life.

Emotion?

Just a random drawing of a face that I did in photoshop a while back.

a candle...

I've recently been experimenting with Corel Painter Essentials. It's a pretty cool program. The brushes are very distinct, and it paints really smooooth.

Crossing the Border

Idiot Shark...

This was a project for my Illustration class. They give you 3 make-ups for a character. The ones I chose at random where, animal: Shark, personality: dopey/idiot and outfit: construction worker.

Our next president?

This is my attempt at drawing Obama. I tried to use a different brush than usual which leaves a lot of background color still in the portrait.
I like the style it creates! I may try to work on this one a bit.

Portrait of a Rockstar...(slightly revised)

Hello, to whoever is checking this out. I haven't posted in a while. We'll see if I can keep up a steady once a week or something. Anyway, this is a portrait I did from a magazine a while ago. I revamped it a little and changed the proportions quite a bit. I really like the way the color came out. The clothes and hair were a quick addition at the end to bring some completion. Anyone guess who it is?

Fun with Illustrator

This is a logo I created for my graphic design class. Creek surfboards was the artificial company. It was pretty fun. I never used Illustrator too much before, but have found it to be a really cool, useful program. Maybe I'll make a shirt out of this someday. hehe

Home at Last!

They finally come to the place where a great banquet awaits them and all who came before are welcoming them in. No more treading across open field of sand and thorn, no longer waiting for inevitable defeat in strenuous efforts and no more disappointment and regret of times long past, because they've come, home at last.

Almost there...

Here, the shephard brings them to outermost edge of their destination. Traveling on a long journey with little legs, some of these guys get pretty tired, so once n' awhile their allowed to ride on the shoulders of their friend. As you can see, some of these small dudes are really excited to go home.

This Way

This is part 1 of a 3 part series of a shephard leading his little munchkins to their home.

80's Rock

This is a little 4 x 6 painting of my friend playing guitar at my 80's party. It's done in soft pastel on black pastel paper. It was originally done for a class project where we we had to manipulate a photograph nine different ways (5 photoshop, 2 Illustrator & 2 traditional) this is obviously the traditional "done-by-hand" image. I think the color came out well.

Peter of Narnia

I'm trying to figure out some basic shading problems I've had. So I'm experimenting with this sketch. I thought black & white would be the easiest to manage, without all that color to worry about. I learned quite a bit from this exercise, various dark and light placement and such... I added a couple darker highlights to this, gives it a little more depth.

Some people sketches

These are just some random sketches I did of my friends, with some design "hoo-ha" around the outside.