Year: 2006

Painting Update

Here are some mostly-completed paintings.

There are some cat paws on the lower right. They belong to Oscar the cat.

Some Drawings for November

Angel in Hell (Just Visiting)

Non-Spinning Top

Post-Accident Arm

Globule

Prince in Flight

Satan Portrait

And here’s a Photoshop painting of Satan.

I’m reminding myself: Photoshop is quite a nice painting tool.

Jesus Portrait

I did this Photoshop painting today.

It was kind of influenced by the completely excellent cover art of Slayer’s latest album, Christ Illusion.

Sloppy Cleanup

I’ve noticed on some monitors (probably most) the backgrounds of these drawings are much more gray with sloppy eraser marks all over the place. This is a known issue, and I hope to clean it up sometime soon.

Everything looks fine on my monitor, of course. Just another frustration of publishing on the web…

Additional October Drawings

I have been doodling a lot lately, but not scanning a lot lately. Tonight I did some good scanning of doodles done during the past 2 weeks or so.

An Average Skull

Because That’s How I Roll

Floating Woman, Non-Flying Man

Relatively Important Veins are in Bold

Middle Finger, Despite Numerous Feet

Rogue Hands and Arms. Invasion is Imminent

Horn-Haired Head

Important Cartilage/Bone Structure

Organic Shape

Advanced Face and Limbs

Another Form

And here’s one from tonight. It’s an organic form, in the tradition of some previous drawings.

Brain-Buster

And here’s one from last night. It’s a regular buster of the brain.

Organics in Pencil

I’ve been having a good time lately with my mechanical pencil. I love mechanical pencils. I should use them more. I like to erase a lot.

Anyway, here’s 4 doodles from a few days ago:

Perplexed American Citizen

Malformed Taxpayer

Struggle

Angel of Worry

Fun Stuff

Have some fun without enduring the usual frustration and possessing all the mandatory diligence of a professional comic artist:
com-mix.org

Mission Statement!

Alright. I’m starting this blog-style portfolio so I can easily publish drawings/paintings/artworks soon after they are made. I’m using a very old version of the Movable Type blog software for this until I get my act together (which may be never).

I will not post any old work. You can go to my professional site to see that stuff.

This will be recent work on a weekly or semi-weekly basis, hopefully. Sometimes there may even be daily posts! Holy Shit!

Former Kansas City Art Institute classmate Peter Bernal once said:
“A man is only as good as his latest piece.” (Circa 2000)

Judge me by my latest post. All past work contributes to the success or failure of the latest work!

Organic Abstract

Here’s a pencil drawing from a few days ago to get this party started:

Stapler Usability Concerns

An extreme case of mis- or non-applied usability practices:
A staple gun fired from the wrong end!

I don’t work in physical product manufacturing or packaging, but I’m thinking the manufacturer could have prevented this. The user didn’t read the instructions (seems quite common), but the design of the staple gun could have reinforced the correct usage through shape, colors, or warning labels.

Strange Public Sculptures

Considering the ridiculous amount of hard work it takes to create any type of semi-permanent sculpture, I’m happy to see these examples that are strange, whimsical, and not restrained by societal censorship:
Strange Public Sculptures