Creepin' In . . .

Here is a mixed media (sorta say)... I did the outlines in illustrator and colors in Painter....Once I hid the outlines layer I wished i did the whole thing in painter.... but maybe next time.... I left the outlines in for definition.

While My lady Sleeps . . .

The Soft Parade . . .

This was based on a photo my brother-in-law shot. Check out his page michaelharveyjr.blogspot.com He just did a cool portrait of yours truly.

Dixie on my Mind...

Here is another attempt at my character design...I'll keep practicing.

Side with the Seeds...

We have been waiting some time now to see last nights primary debate...I was pretty excited to actually watch Clinton and Obama go back and forth but honestly to me I am as undecided now as I was before. But it did give me some time to try and sketch some more.

Moody Blue

I want to start drawing the same character over and over and over for consistency. So I think I'll start with this character. We went to the city a few years ago and I did this from a pic of my wife in front of Radio City.

My Baby's Got Sauce...

Here is a new E-V-E poster I did over the weekend. For this one I used my kid. Aint she sweet?

Out on the Tiles...

We had visitors last night so I got the chance to hide in the bedroom and practice my illustrator moves while others entertained the kids....Tho I relied on mostly the old stuff I already knew, I did sketch this out in Painter with the wacom... That was the first I ever really got to work with painter and there seems to be a ton to learn but for sketching it felt pretty natural and I didnt even have to worry about making my paper thin or tear from erasing. Then I brought it into illustrator and went from there. One of my favorite cartoons is the Batman, because they made Robin actually cool and did and awesome job with Batgirl. I hear it was canceled tho. Well I sketched this from the episode "the apprentice" where Joker gets his own sidekick and our girl Babs ends up dangling over a green vat of gook by the legs of joker's sidekick....and its a good thing I can pause the TV for some amount of time.

We Who See the Deep...

I am starting to like using my initial sketch as a basis for this coloring stuff. If there is anything that I do like about my drawings, it would be my pencil stroke. I do still want to progress in using illustrator for complete design because I love that look, I like the look of of keeping my sketch too. Walk Believer Walk!

Country Pie...

My friend created my web page and in return I am doing some coloring book pages for a kids kit for the North Central Chapter 8 of the Society for Pennsylvania Archeology. I hope the kids have sharp crayons.

Fell on Black Days...

I just got a great book on how to color in Illustrator. It was by this awesome artist Alberto Ruiz and he even signed it and drew a titty girl in it for me. So I couldnt wait to learn some new techniques and I started early Saturday morning and sketched out a pic to try and color. I came up with the idea of me letting spider-man know that there is a new kid in town. So after I sketched it out and brought it into illustrator I didnt even know where to begin to color it so I panicked and did the basics in photoshop...sorry Alberto I should have started small. I did tho do all the shading and backgrounds in illustrator and by using my new book I finally learned how to do the halftone glow. So not all was a waste, thanks Alberto!

Slow Happy Boys...

Here is another sketch of a guy I did in a meeting...this guy loves the dancing with the stars shows. The sketch I did was sloppy and usually I redo the whole thing in illustrator but I read a tutorial by Chris Wahl on how to color from a sketch in photoshop and decided to give it a try.