Ahriman and Ahura Mazda Sketch

Battle of the cosmic brothers Ahura Mazda and Ahriman.  Drawn with carmine red prismacolor colerase pencil.

Cool Sketch

Here is a small drawing from my sketchbook.

Black Water

I drew this years ago. I've been coloring it little by little over that time. I started with a streak-y background in various beige, yellow and grey prismacolor markers. I did most of the shading in col-erase and graphite pencils. This picture doesn't quite look finished... ... How long am I gonna be coloring this thing?! Oi. Comments appreciated.

Onocentaur

"Onocentaur"

18"x24"

Marker on paper

I heard somewhere that donkeys don't like dogs and can actually be trained to guard livestock by chasing off coyotes. I don't know whether this is true, but the comment illicited from me a dramatic and strangely humorous mental image of strife between dog and donkey. This piece is loosely inspired by that mental image. In this case, one finds a half-man half-donkey creature being accosted by domestic dogs (although they arguably don't look like domestic dogs, maybe I should have picked a particular breed and gotten a picture, but hindsight's 20/20.)

I really like how this turned out. Imperfections aside, I think it captured the feel I was going for. I didn't exactly want a violent image. I wanted to capture the tension of a situation that has not yet erupted in actual violence. In this case, both parties are about evenly matched and stand a good chance of serious injury. There's barking, growling, anxious rearing but either side has yet to make a deffinitive move. I naively thought all of this was self-evident from the image, and that the forty minute critique would require little explaination on my part. In actuality my genuinely supportive classmates were confused about exactly what was happening in the picture, but where nonetheless enthusiastic. My crits often go like this.

I drew and colored this with col-erase pencils and marker. This is a woman whose "shawl" is no an animal pelt, but a giant, hairy monster-bug. I did this for a monster drawing class. Actually, this is just the sketch of the final project, which was in the form of a before-after type thing. I'll put up the final version in a bit.