Long time, no post....

Hi Everyone!

Thanks for checking in, considering how horrible I have been about posting. I have been drawing a lot but none of you would know that of course...your opinion of me could be tarnished forever but it is a risk I have to take.

Anyway...here are some drawings I finally took the time to scan!

Recent Life Drawings

This is what I am drawing when I am not drawing the people drawing. I think the word drawing appears way too many times in that sentence.

IF: Detach

For Illustration Friday...

We just finished Season 2 of the "Tudors" so this came to mind first! Done with little finesse and very quickly, but I really wanted to do this one. Anyone else think Ann Boleyn got a bum rap?

Drawers at Spring St.

As usual I find the people drawing the model just as interesting as the model! Here are a couple from a Spring St drawing session. I have actual life drawings too but they are larger and I have to scan them in sections, but I will soon.



As usual I find the people drawing the model just as interesting as the model! Here are a couple from a Spring St drawing session. I have actual life drawings too but they are larger and I have to scan them in sections, but I will soon.

Lots of reading at LAX

I do have pictures from the stamp event to upload and lots of new life drawings but I thought I would throw these up for now. My trip was so busy and our flights got cancelled-TWICE!

A great deal of unwanted time in LAX with LOTS of people reading so here is a sample. Thanks for checking in guys!

The Art of Disney: Imagination

Well, I am of to LA for the release of the fifth and final set of stamps that I have illustrated for the United States Postal Service. I can not say enough about this project and all the wonderful attention it has received.
I am thrilled and feel very honored to have been part of this project. A job like this does not come around very often and it was a wonderful experience.

Barbra

I have avoided drawing this woman for a long time. I especially avoided her profile...but I thought what the hell...

I have returned!

With some new drawings...More to come!

Some Recent Life Drawings....

Hey folks...thanks for checking in even though I have not been posting much.

Been busy on several projects and have lots going on. School is finished for the semester and I have a few things I have to get done before I leave for Florence (woo-hoo!) Here are a couple of life drawings I did recently that I felt had some merit. I have a bunch more and will post them when I have time to scan them !

Dorota

Go and visit Dorota's BLOG!

She was my old office mate at Disney and is a superior artist and a fabulous person!

Recent sketches

Lately all I want to do is draw from life. I have done a lot, but no time to scan everything. Oddly enough these are some of the first sketches I have done in graphite in years. I almost never draw in pencil but lately it just feels right.

Wrinkles....

Maybe I went overboard?...For Illustration Friday.

Drawing, drawing, drawing...

Been busy drawing, a lot like this guy. Very swamped at the moment getting all my things done before I leave for Florence again. Thanks to all who keep checking in!

Sunday Paper

Happy Easter Everyone!

Coffee in a cardboard cup

I recently purchased a cintiq and am loving it. However it is very easy to fall into the digital hole that so very few ever come out of. I am dedicated to my craft and feel the need for tactile creation so I have been doing some inkings at the end of each day using drawings from my sketchbooks.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy VD everyone! Well...not that kind of VD!

Here is the image I made for Jared's Valentine.

WINNER!

Well, one of the winners anyway.

My Frankenstein Eustace Tilley was selected as one of the 20 winners of The New Yorker contest. The image will appear on The New Yorker website for a year and (supposedly) will be printed in their 83rd anniversary issue. From what I understand they will not be able to print them all. Either way I was glad I did it and it was a lot of fun whether I was a winner or not. I am grateful to have been selected.

Here is the link to view the 20 Winners selected. Mine is the fourth one in the slideshow.

The New Yorker's Eustace Tilley Contest

The New Yorker is hosting a contest on a new interpretation of their favorite cover boy, Eustace Tilley (on top). I would have liked to do more, but these were all time would allow. Here is the link for all of you who want to view the entries. Some of them are not showing up unless you are signed in. No one knows why it isn't working properly.

Land HO!

Jared and I just returned from a two week cruise to the Caribbean. Needless to say it was chock full of specimens begging to put down on paper. Oddly enough after looking at the drawings of all the people sleeping in deck chairs they resemble bodies in a funeral home.

The Little Match Girl 2

Here are some more images I created for The Little Match Girl theme.

There is the original sketch I did where she was kneeling in the snow as well as two very rough images of her dead. I wanted her to have died with a smile on her face looking peaceful and happy like a beautiful little girl who just fell asleep.

Lastly is a more refined version of the image I had painted last time. I have to get back to some other work so I have to leave the color image where it is for now. Who knows if I will go back to it when I have more time? I think I worked her enough but I would like to finish the box and the matches.

The Little Match Girl

This month's Gum or Mints assignment was the Little Match Girl.

I have always liked this story although it is grim. The concept of her getting lost in the hallucination is what attracted me first with this assignment and subsequently the light from the matches which help to take her there. I felt the need to work in color for this to feel the light best and did a watercolor rough of the first image I drew out. I really was going for an awestruck expression as well. I wanted her to look completely happy and not to care about all that was bad in her life. I have done some changes to the drawing and will probably give it another try in watercolor. I have also done some of her dead the next morning that I have to scan and will post them once I do.