Rusted Leaf

Comb-Over Carl

Quick digital painting of "Comb-Over Carl"...

The ladies LOVE the comb-over.

4.10.13 - Morning Sketch - Bucktooth Frankenbilly with a Rockin' Buttchin

Creativity...

During medical school, I needed to find an outlet for my creativity. Growing up, I was drawing all the time. There are boxes of drawings, mostly cartoons, at my parents' place. In high school, I was the cartoonist for the school newspaper. Later, while studying history in college, I had a strip called The Perfect Paradigm that was also published in the school newspaper. I found the humdrum of medical school didn't satisfy my need for creativity, so eventually I approached the undergrad paper and got the job. I ran a strip 5x/week for the paper while also doing medical school and dealing with the onset of what has been a nasty neurological condition. I took third place two years in a row in the annual national SPJ Mark of Excellence awards. I look at the art in it now and just laugh. I had very little time to draw and was trying to balance too much stuff in my life. But, I really enjoy looking back at that time and being reminded that creativity is just a big part of who I am.

This is just a smattering of some of my favorites from that time. Perhaps I will redraw some of them.

Never go to a blind beard barber...

And Orthrus Smiled...

I typically find drawing from life to be less fun

than drawing the messed up stuff in my head.

But, the lessons to be learned from just drawing

what you see are unparalleled. 

So, I've decided to

start painting skulls.

An excellent resource is the book:

SKULLS

An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection

by

Simon Winchester

Headmount

I like to do quick, simple pen and inks for 

warm-up sketches and brainstorming every morning.

Buh Gok!!!

I just finished reading Ted McKeever's MONDO. 

It is a phenomenal book.

The art in it is fantastic.

Buh GOK!

Fall

The most beautiful gems

Fall from trees in Autumn.

Red.

Yellow.

Orange.

Green.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to...

SALSA!

Honey Bee

Butterflies are...

Fisheye.

Snowy Owl

There are a number of things that I like playing with in my

work. Perhaps one of the more intriguing things to me is the 

nature of texture. Context defines how we interpret texture.

Something that is rough can be made to look soft in the

appropriate context. This owl is made of nothing more

than an abandoned piece of wood I found on the side

of the road. Yet, the grain looks like feathering.

Soft. Fluffy. What is it that causes this?

The Only Person Standing in Your Way...

...is you.

Wooden Dove.

We Are All Of Us Angels

You don't understand.

BATMAN!!!!!

The King Will NEVER Die...

Magic Trick?

Four-Eyed...

Because glasses are fucking awesome.

Demons...

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming...

Arthaus Show...

Everyone is invited!!!

A Few New Pieces...

My Mom had a run-in with a sheep in Great Britain:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54569936-78/sheep-cannon-ann-eyeballs.html.csp

I wonder if Han worshipped La Santa Muerte.

A piece I did using a picture of some broken glass on the ground that my wife took.

Linocuts and Ravens...