His Nose is Bigger in Real Life

I'll be usin' painter alot. THis is just a quick excersize that I did today.

Sketches from the Break

This will be my last break between semesters for a long time. I am taking my last class at CSU Fullerton and will soon be graduating. It's time to find a more serious job than drawing caricatures at a theme park.

Most of the time in my sketchbook I draw from life. But sometimes I will copy favorite artists. One of the pages here is a set of copies of Humberto Ramos drawings from a comic book series called Out There. The other copies are from Danger Girls by Scott Campbell. Copying helps me get into their heads and see why they draw the way they do.

Under the Bed

Here is one of five illustrations that I have been working on for six months. I've been figuring out some things about digital painting.

Horsing Around

These are the results I got from using a brown prismacolor marker and a white prismacolor pencil on this indigo colored, strathmore art paper. It's not super clean, but still fun to look at.

Four Dudes

More fabulous work from my sketchbook.

White on Red

Drawn from a magazine photo.

Some Old Editorial Cartoons

The awards I won were for my editorial cartoons including this one here about text books. My "Aliens on the Roof" comic didn't turn any of the judges heads, but it is still one of my favorties. Anyone who was at R.C.C. at the time would understand why it was relevant. As for the blackspot on the trees, it was an accident. I was drawing almost entirely with crow quill pens at the time and accidental ink spots are pretty much unavoidable.

The Horny Toad was a character that I created for my animation course at R.C.C. I then used him in several strip comics for the student newspaper there. I didn't get any awards for him, but he was a lot of fun. I never actually settled on any particular name, but Eddie always comes to mind. I've been drawing him over the years since then. I used him in a one minute cartoon short and I've been working on a redesign every so often. For the last three weeks I've been trying to find time to sit down and do a couple strip comics. So far nothing. So here is some of the old stuff.