sorry i've been absent! Though I doubt anyone here really missed me, lol. Been working on a super secret project! Need to put that unemployment money to work, though it's tough between working at the book store and then coming home and spending all my time on this. But I should be back in august! Keep your fingers crossed on this one!

Who doesn't love dinosaurs?!  sketched out these guys (top-Packyrhinosaurus, bottom-Coelophysis)  while watching some youtube videos of dinosaurs specials i watched when i was, like 8 and totally obsessed with dinosaurs. I mean "go to the library and take out college level textbooks on prehistoric life" obsessed.
I also read the whole Spiderwick Chronicles series last week (don't act too impressed, each book takes 35 minutes to read, and there are five of them) but OMY, TONY DITERLIZZI!!! Amazing work. Every illustration was an amazing feat in pen and ink. He dedicated the book to Arthur Rackman (another amazing pen and ink man) It's been so long since I've touched a pen nib. The books inspired me to pick them up again. Though I always feel like i ruin good sketches with my inking. :P
I'm my biggest problem.

Trisha, from Stephen King's "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon". I know there isn't anything that signifies a Red Sox jersey (I was on the couch and I was too lazy to look it up). I've read my fair share of Stephen King, but for some reason I'm terrified this girl is going to die. NO SPOILERS!
Gosh, more than a month between posts. I wish I had something better than "a used book store got in the way", but that seems to be how low points in life go, you always wish they were something they weren't   ;)
Also, Andrew thought i was drawing Ash Ketchem. Annnnnnd, I'm done.

Last week, as you may have heard, Maurice Sendak passed away. Ten paces and draw did a tribute post for the man, a bunch of very lovely pieces where done in memoriam for him. Here's my part in it.

Sketches!!! I don't do nearly enough fan art, which is weird because it's so much fun! So here is a quick take on ygritte from ASOIAF, though in all honesty she looks like the saturday morning cartoon version of her (I would get up early every saturday if that came on). I was trying to get the essence of that cute catch phrase of her's: "You know nothing, Jon Snow"
GOD, SHE IS SO SASSY!!! lol, but really, she's a great character and I can't wait to see how they make her in the show.

2nd, we have a sketch that was totally inspired/stolen from the amazingly talented Andrew Shek. I don't think I know an artist who draws animals better than this guy (Bobby Chiu, perhaps). But he had this little tid bit on his blog that the TRex roar in Jurassic Park was a combination of An elephants roar, a whale song, an alligator rumble and a tiger's roar. I had to draw this.

Annnnd a poe sketch i did a couple of years ago. Sometimes I look at my old work and wish I could still draw like that. Somehow my drawing style went bent. I don't know. The grass is always greener or some such nonsense.  :)

Ok, sort of zoned away from the blog. Been taking sometime trying to figure out my lot in the world. Haven't made much head way, but who ever does? Anyway, last week I was asked to help with the blog "Ten Paces and Draw" which is a themed art thing, where two artists are given a theme, they come up with a sketch, then trade the sketch with the other and bring that to completion. My theme was eccentric millionaires and I traded with Rachel Dougherty. The stuff isn't on their blog yet, so you can't see my sketch, her sketch or her finish, but once they're up, I'll link them.
I just feel really bad that I haven't posted anything in a while...

So a finished hobbit piece! Maybe not perfect, but It was nice to take what I had learned from the last one and apply it to this.

  also, since most folks probably got the invites all ready. Andrew and I did my sister's wedding invitations. Andrew did the layout and design and I did portraits of Meg and her future hubby to be, Shane. They came out all right. I'm happy with them! Though really, Andrew's type design is AH-maze-ing. I'mma lucky guy  ;)