A couple months ago I managed to get my hands on an iPad. Within a week, I loaded it up with a bevy of art related apps. Sketching on a tablet device is by no means an easy task, whether its with a stylus or your finger. And the feeling is more akin to drawing on a whiteboard than say a pencil and paper. Here are some of the results.
Lately a few friends of mine have gotten into the cartoon “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” and asked me to draw up “pony-fied” variations of themselves. Here’s a few I completed, one of which includes my bearded self. Frankly, just pulling references from the show got me into watching it. It’s definitely a cartoon that everyone can enjoy, at any age, and you can tell there is a great
This little piece is something I did back in my days in college. It started out as an assignment for a design class, but it quickly became one of my favorite piece to work on. So quite a bit of time went into something that was only supposed to be a week long project. The concept of using a collection of images with perspective and abstract lines is something I
Character design and expression sheets for a few characters from “Under the Influence”, a comic I produced between 2009 and 2011.
Work on Under the Influence started on this web comic project in late 2009 and went on indefinite hiatus in April of 2011. This project allowed me to find and refine my skills as an illustrator and a writer, two skills I had a great deal of fun learning and developing. It was a lot of work drafting scripts and strips time and again, throwing out and reworking what didn’t feel
…Of something I should have done and maintained years ago. But the internet has made dramatic strides and changes since I started doing the digital art thing back in ’98. No matter, new stuff, old stuff, traditional stuff, digital stuff. Its all the same, its just an image in your head, which in turn becomes timeless, but constrained to the space between your ears. Being an artist means to convey
