Beefy Private Eyes

More P.I. Studies, trying to find the right balance of Valuev, Lombardozzi, Chiklis, and Bogey. The top and bottom most ones are really where I think its at.

Al Swearengen

Ian McShane is one of my favorite actors, and Deadwood is one of my favorite shows, and Al Swearengen is one of my favorite characters on that show. As monstrous of a character as he was, he was strangely principled and an engine for progress. I just did this to warm up at inking but I might work this up more.

William Sutton

William Sutton, Willie the actor, or Slick Willie was an American bank robber, and one of the first men to be put on the FBI most wanted fugitive list. He was famously misquoted as saying he robbed banks because "thats where the money is." While he maintains to never have said this actually said some pretty cool things, such as he robbed banks at gunpoint, "You can't rob a bank on charm and personality," although if anyone ever could do it, it would have been Bill Sutton.

P.I. Head studies

Here's what we were going for, a hardboiled, slightly weather beaten, private detective, drawing heavily on the tradition of Hammett and I was definitely not going to draw Bogie. I wanted him to be a little older, and showing it, while not being Gran Torino era Eastwood in regards to wrinkles, with at the very least a receding hairline. When I tried him bald unfortunately this guy looks way too much like Dashiell BadHorse, the main character from the series Scalped, which is funny as I was drawing heavily on reference images of my favorite boxer who is very Russian. I think this is going to work out.

Postcard Picture

I hate needing to keep originals. I hate not being able to draw something black and turn it white later. To be able to fix everything in the end. To have second chances. The immediacy of making something work the first time, paired with the randomness of a pen nib and the unforgiving permanency of ink is a nightmare.

In Bruges was a pretty great movie.

Exhibition Design

Early Pitch Sketches Designs for large scale final branches
Final branches in process of installation




I helped design a spring themed exhibit for Daniel Krall's fashion illustration class (properly called Lifestyle, body and behavior, improperly called Bath mats and Casino interiors). Here you can see the steps we went to. In addition to these branches I had a plan for a major cloud of sparrow cut outs, however the consensus leaned towards someone elses proposed major butterfly swarm. I probably could have moved the masses to accept sparrows but opted for compromise because I just saw the Fountainhead and realized I don't want to be no Howie Roark. For the final presentation I got some help from my friend Sophia, who was a great help in making these go from flat to dimensional. We used a lot of foam core, acrylic paint, and razor blades. You may notice some tape thats in there currently as the epoxy is still setting, but I'll be taking that down tomorrow.

Saturnian Sherriffs

Perhaps if you follow this you've noted a certain proclivity we have for Saturnians. Here we see the toughest team of lawmen to ride the space lanes. Iphigenia Schoefield, the Six Gun Shiva, Doc' Bee, and their loyal native guide, Big Chief Toad in the Hole. Its a cold hard vacuum out there, count your lucky stars there's a posse that goes harder.

So high art, so Cy Twombly

So I do some life drawing, its like a strange and tragic addiction I can't kick. Here's the last assignment I knocked out, on using nonrepresentational marks (in this case the names of my grandmother and her twin) to make a representational picture (in this case my grandmother and her twin). These two ladies are pretty much the only reason I really can't miss Thanksgiving.


It came out a little Cy Twombly, but I'm not even sure that guys real so whatever.

Busy Sketches that are confusing

But I'll color it in and you'll see. You'll all see. (I kinda love really busy pictures)

Nuclear Winter Wonderland

My thesis is an exercise in character development, and world building. As the title says its Apocalypse fun, so what better world to build than the one thats been scorched by the fires of the atom?


Sir Frederic Hoyle wrote how after the cataclysm, the esquimaux were the least affected, in the hot times they simply rowed a little farther, in the cold times they dug a little deeper, but the survived admirably compared to the civilized folks, who were all but destroyed by The Black Cloud

Colored version and endearing stories coming next week.

Bubble Bubble toil and trouble.

Andre Royo, as Bubbles from The Wire, is one of my favorite subjects to draw. I've been trying to get better at showing how light falls over forms with all these ink drawings, and I think its working out pretty well.

Also, I while drawing Bubbles, I often think of Bioshock, and think of that other Mr. Bubbles.

Bird on the Wire

Fredro Star, of the hardcore rap group Onyx, was pretty awesome on The Wire, and had some beautiful vitriolic rants while handcuffed to a table in a BPD interrogation room.

More portraits for your perusal and enjoyment

So I watched Fringe last, night, and Lance Reddick was playing a pretty awesome CO again. It was pretty cool, even if Joshua Jackson isn't exactly my sort of action hero.




also here is a picture I think is better of Michael K. Williams, who played Omar Little, the legendary stick up boy from The Wire. I really should probably stop rendering things, because I don't like to, and think there's so much more zazz in these high contrast drawings. Maybe I'll color it later.

Faces in a bent piece of metal

Elephantiasis

Elephantitis was pretty much the funniest thing in middle school, when no one really understood it. If I spend too much thinking about tiny parasitic worms making my lymph system go insane and blow up like a balloon, I get a little freaked out.

Still, all these weird ailments are beautiful and fascinating in a weird way. Especially this one.

Baby Elephant Man walk

Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man" is possibly the only reason we know of Proteus Syndrome. A disfiguring syndrome which causes bizarre bone and skin growths, as well as tumors covering about half of the body. Its cause is still unkown.

Another Ink drawing of what I'd look like a horrible medical condition. Horrible as they may be, disfigurements are much more fun to draw than an unblemished figure.

If I was old I could get away with anything.

The first of three drawings of myself with terrible medical ailments for Dan Dudrow's Life Drawing clas. As it was the first the brushwork got a little wonky, but the non-relational color saved the day. I am glad I don't have progeria. I am a little sad I don't have that amazing beard anymore.

A fun game to play

Raftapult: A fun game to play
Place one friend on an inflatable raft. Using two other friends, violently capsize raft, propelling raft and first friend several feet.