I don't generally think about insects, but when I do, I think about Robo-insects.  Well, that sounds absurd -- What about super-sonic-robo-WASP aerial vehicle...  Yeah, that sounds cooler.

Natural History Museum Life Drawings 2

Barn Owl

Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

Natural History Museum Life Drawings 1

California Condor, Swainson's Hawk

Magnificent Frigatebird

Acorn Woodpecker, Flicker

Dec. 23 -- I completed some additional studies of native California birds in the SB Natural History Museum's wonderful bird exhibit, which I recommend to anyone interested in life drawing or birds in general.  I was accompanied by the lovely and talented Jaw Cooper.

Digital sketches

Some quick  3/4 view portrait sketches given tonal value in Adobe Photoshop.  I want to put some thought provoking comment about what I learned, but it seems to me that, once again, my problem lies in tonal values, not my understanding of the structure of the face.  Back to the drawing tablet.

Random Ball-Point Pen Sketches

Studies

Babylon Sphinx

Uhh... Fighter Maid?

I filled a whole pad of newsprint paper with ball-point pen sketches.  I did this for drawing practice, but a few sketches were memorable enough to keep.  Heres a couple of my favorites.

Sketches

Dressed to Impress

Click-Click-Tweet

Born to Levitate

Here are some sketches for various projects.  They all have a strange, stylistic element that I think is a definite plus.  The first two are steam-punk themed -- I really like the robo bird.

More Bird Studies

Design School Homework

I'm taking several classes at a design school in LA. These are some portraits I painted in Photoshop for an assignment.

Unfinished Sketches 2

Digital Painting - Sirens

I'm going to have two paintings in a gallery show called "Femme Fatale". This is a color study I did for the solo painting I'm submitting. The painting itself will be in watercolor and guoache, whereas this unfinished color study was done in Adobe Photoshop.

I'm working on the final painting and it's really exiting, but I still haven't decided what color the sirens should be. Does anyone think some kind of purple would look better?

Unfinished Sketches 1

Figure Drawing - Charles

Some long overdue classwork...

Before and After - Centipede Lady

An lady with monsters for her jewelry and shawl.

Colored in oil pastel.

Late 70's sitcom

Been drawing from screenshots from the lat 1970's sitcom SOAP. I just got a Wacom so I did a little coloring. Okay... that's not true. I'm doing a lot of coloring. Plenty. I think I'm addicted to Wacom...

Gallery piece - Sirens

The idea behind this work is the stories surrounding the sirens of myth. These bird-women would seduce sailors with an intoxicating song, then murder the people drawn to them by the song.

This is a test run for the underpainting. I'm trying to establish the lights and darks, and I hope to achieve a good balance of light and dark. I am going to paint this and submit it to a gallery show themed "Femme-Fatale".