Not much to say about this. Started in my sketchbook and decided to finish drawing it.
In The Morning, I Will Sing (2004)
Since I’m drawing birds lately, here’s one I did back in 2004. India ink on illustration board.
I listen to quite a bit of late-night radio while drawing and lately I’ve heard some interesting stuff about how birds are beginning to sound different. This is leading people to speculate that their navigational systems might be disrupted somehow, whether by an approaching asteroid, rogue planet, pole shift, etc.
One thing which resonated with me was when someone remarked that they had observed a bird emitting some sort of electronic sound. So, rather than draw the analog signal, I drew more of an analog to digital conversion (which is actually backwards, but the more accurate depiction wouldn’t illustrate well). This is basically the thumbnail and concept sketch of that. I should have an actual finished version of this in the next few days.
Left hook to the body…
I’ve been a boxing fan for as long as I can remember and recently thought of a way to incorporate that into my illustration work. This is more or less an experiment in both concept and style. It’s usually tough to do, but lately I’ve been trying to limit myself to only a few colors and keeping things as simple as possible. I don’t think I could ever get tired of drawing anything boxing related.
Here are two portraits of professional boxers Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, which are part of a larger project that I’m working on.
Here’s a preliminary draft of something for tomorrow’s CityPaper
Just something for practice. Maybe for another drawing.
The 16th annual Best of Charleston party is tonight.
Every year has a specific theme, and the theme for last year was unicorns. I drew this on a 7-8ft. tall menu board with sidewalk chalk to welcome everyone to the party.
Pencils for a larger drawing
I recently did this illustration for the Spring edition of College of Charleston Magazine about a guy who graduated and went to work in the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Since there are no permanent residents in Antarctica, anyone spending time there might have the same feeling that a person would experience if they were visiting an alien planet. That’s more or less what I was going for in this drawing, and I’m happy with how it turned out.
The initial version of this (seen here) had the guy wearing a thinner blue coat with darker pants. After some positive feedback from the art director and editor, I bulked everything up and changed the color to the standard “safety orange” that most alien-planet-cold-weather-explorers tend to wear nowadays.
Thread
These bananas existed once. Watercolor on… some kind of watercolor paper.
Just trying out a limited color palette and watercolor for texture.
Panerai hands, glowing
The Bride Possessed
