Holy Crap New Scratchboard - WIP

Started a new board. Bride of Frankenstein. You know how we roll. Anyway, got as much done as I could tonight (started at 8:30pm), hoping to finish tomorrow. Slight adjustment to the background, and I need to figure out how to make metal. Totally not the best photos, but my scanner is slightly too small and all the scans come out blurry.







It's a little blurry but here is a pretty good detail shot of what I have so far.



More My Life in Sketches tomorrow plus a hopefully finished board. w00t.
Over and out, space cadets

My Life in sketches: Florida

Went down to Florida for a week and a half with Nick and Kish, we stayed with Nick's uncle Otto in Clearwater, Fl. Pretty neat. Swam in the gulf for the first time and snorkeled for the first time. Saw some dolphins and some manatees, one of which effectively translated popped out of the water with an "oh, hai!" Anyway, good times mostly had by all except for a few strange incidents involving burglars, bugs, rogue sprinklers, Clue: Harry Potter edition, one sassy, foul mouthed 11 year old and much needed jack n' cokes.

Drawn while sitting and watching the sun set on Clearwater Beach.



Night fishing off a pier in Clearwater Beach. Nick caught 1 salt water cat and I caught a puny pinfish.




An amalgamation/time lapse of things I saw on the water after I came in from fishing on Honeymoon Island.




Chilling out after catching 5 salt water catfish with my rod leaned against one of the beach chairs. Otto leaned his there too which he cut more bait.



Gestural sketches of Nick and Otto trying to get a snagged line to release.



Over all a very productive at relaxing trip. Back to the real world. Over and out, space cadets!

Art Behind The Banner...

So I totally need a better scanner. Anyway, got bored, made this and turned it into the blog banner. Sounds fun right. It was!

My Life in Sketches: DC United

My friend Nick on the train heading to the DC United Game. We won.



Going to Florida for a week, hopefully I'll get a ton of sketches done of awesome stuff like sand sculptures or manatees.

My LIfe in Sketches the Laurel Addition

Went with from friends on an adventure in search of food. We found and interesting spot called Shane's Rib Shack. Good life choice. I drew while we waiting for out food to arrive. I'm actually really proud of this sketch because I'm usually terrible at drawing people I know, but I did a good job this time.

My Life In Sketches, Plus New Old Art

I missed a couple days of sketches I think, lame on my part. Anyway here are my latest encounters/experiences/whatever.

Thursday hung out with some friends while they bottled their home brewed beer. Here you can see Shane siphoning the beer into the bottles.



Saturday went out to the bar. Same bar as before but a different angle, different day, different bar tenders.



I'm really trying to buckle down and draw every day, but i'm slipping up already. I'm getting better about it. Here's to chronicling my life in pictures.

Here is some art I did early senior year. It's a wood block, illustration of an alien princess and her monster pet/companion on the prowl/look out. It's weird, I didn't know how I felt about it at the time and I still don't know how I feel about it. It's interesting. I think the angle and composition are weird and could have been better.



That's it for this post. Over and out.

My Life In Sketches Day 3

Washington, DC

Went out to the bar with some friends who came down to visit from Philadelphia. The owner of the bar wants a copy of the sketch to hang up, which is cool. This is a continuation of my weekend in sketches. I plan in pursuing this over a full year. From July 3rd to July 3rd... or maybe July 4th to July 4th just to make it easy to remember. So far, so good.