Soccer Ball

12" x 7", oils on canvas, 2005

As part of a self-challenge, on my LiveJournal I asked friends to give me photos that I might try to draw or paint. My friend Hope Preston gave me an image of a soccer ball that I painted in half a day, non-stop. It's about 12" by 7", oils. It was done sometime in the fall of 2005.

Disclaimer: the original image is not mine - I did this painting for fun and practice and did not make a penny on it.

Tipping the Velvet

digital illustrations
Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
May 20th & May ?, 2005

These are both from the BBC film Tipping the Velvet, based on screenshots I took from the DVD. Drawn in Adobe Illustrator CS and colored in Adobe Photoshop CS. Not much else to say about them other than to disclaim that the originals are not mine and do not belong to me - I created these for fun, for love of the film, and for practice and I did not make a penny from any of it.

Wonder Woman

10" x 14"?, ink, Feb. 2006

I was supposed to send my friend InstantAmazon a doodle, and couldn't think of anything, so I asked for a topic and she said people. On my last day of house sitting I came across this Wonder Woman comic in Spanish -- the title and issue number are written on the image there for refrence. So this is drawn from an image out of that comic. The only thing I did different was where the lasso begins and ends, making it a bit more dynamic visually, and her face, mostly her mouth, is different since I really can't draw those retro late-70's early 80's big lips they used to do - at least, I've never had practice. ;)

Here's a link to the original English issue of Wonder Woman which includes a picture of the original that I was drawing from (scroll down): http://www.amazonarchives.com/ww232.htm

Also, here is a 1260px widescreen wallpaper version I created:


Again, not mine - drawn for fun and practice and I didn't make a dime.

Quick Portraits

I did a challenge on my LiveJournal where I asked my friends to give me photos of themselves and I would have an hour to draw each person. I went over time on all but the last one of Eric (the pencil line one), which I did in 34 minutes.

Eclipse

9' x 2' ink-on-canvas, 2000?


from my LiveJournal, 18th-Jan-2004:
This is a 2 foot by 9 foot triptych I did as an experimental final project for Advanced Drawing in college at the end of 2000, I believe. In that class we had to choose an art style we'd like to experiment with and study, and I chose the neo-art neuveau look of Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise). This project wasn't done to mimick his style, but was an experiment in a more comic-looking linework using an experimental medium some classmates of mine in highschool stumbled upon. I actually did this in 16 and a half hours the night before it was due. It was fun but taxing - it's flipping HUGE. I had to paint all three canvases at the same time to ensure even color throughout .... anyway, it was quite the endeavor.

After hanging on a hall wall at the college for half a year, I finally lugged it home and then up to Alaska where it is living behind my mom's couch (we have no walls long enough for it). Being so large I only have these low-quality digital photos of the painting.

It's called "Eclipse". It had a lot of meaning when I did it, but I don't really remember most of it now. I do remember balancing it so it specifically goes from complex to simplistic, from left to right. I like the last panel the best and the first panel the least.