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.

9111857

People looked pretty cool in the 1850's as a rule. I have yet to see a picture from that decade that didn't get me a little bit pumped.

These are some bad dudes who did some bad things in the 1850's.

I think they'll be pretty cool when I put some ink on them.

VectoWrinkles

Instead of getting a haircut or any of the other things I should have done today I just fooled around in illustrator. This would probably be super cool if it had one more value.

Leviathan Smiles

Ok so seriously, how about we just go wild and have another layer prairie anemones all silhouette and line, monochrome, low opacity, just chilling and unifying. Also what if I just draw sharks doing and saying vulgar things from now on?

Michael K. WIlliams probably never looks bad.

I couldn't figure out what was wrong with this and then I realized that it needs that seafoam filler to be filled with a totally fantastic technicolor pattern composed of vials, phials and shells. Yellow top! Red top! Blue top! So maybe you can guess what I'll be doing while soon.

Bad Dudes are the best sort of dude

I think three values is enough. How about that?

Also see that Clint right there? Guess what super secret project he's reference for? Keep watching the stars.

Oh and there's totally another portrait of Michael K. Williams that I'm working on coloring. After looking at a lot of pictures of him, I think what I dig about his face might be that he's really pretty, I can totally see how he used to be a model, however that amazingly badass facial scar is amazingly badass to the point its easy to miss. Awesome. If you haven't seen Terry Richarson's picture of him as Terry Richardson I recommend it.

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.

What I did this summer

Remember that bit about watching too much of The Wire? It didn't stop with school. Sometimes I liked to pretend I was being productive while watching it by drawing the characters from it. Featured here are Lance Reddick, or Lt. Cedric Daniels and a fourteen year old Jimmy Jelani Manners, or Kevin Johnston.

You may recognize Reddick from his recurring roles on Oz and every other procedural though probably not because I draw his head funny.

You may recognize Manners from Step Up 2: The Streets.

I drew some stuff in sketchbooks. Its pretty awesome.

The last days of junior year were characterized by staying up late doing homework and watching The Wire. I once walked to the same junk shop Bubbles frequents. Modern Junk and Salvage Co.

There is something that is endlessly alluring about a fish in a suit.



Doing things like this during AH-390 History of Film is probably why I got a B- instead of that A I think I deserved. That or walking out on those melodramas. Still, drawing a pretty rad Dracula is totally worth dragging down the GPA.

Faces in a bent piece of metal

Bombed out Back

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.

Custer Jump on it

In Fall of 2006 I made these George Custer Variations. They were an Illustration I assignment assigned by Daniel Krall.