April 8 2024

From my sketchbook, drawn with an 05 Micron...

Fun fact: I drew today's eclipse on the same piece of paper I used seven years ago for the August 21, 2017 partial eclipse.  I now have a souvenir for two outer space events!

April 2 2024

From my sketchbook...details in the sketch. :)

Fun fact: my coffee mug makes an appearance in a comic I illustrated, Book 2 of Camp Epic: Villains.

Character Design WIP

Here's some work-in-progress for a character I'm currently developing.

The top two images are stylistic experimentations.  I first drew the character using a ball-point pen, and then cleaned up that lineart in Procreate before adding color and value.  My lines are usually sharper and much cleaner when I'm working on finished illustrations, but for this I want to go sketchier.  I colored the top image with this in mind using the dry ink brush in Procreate to try and replicate what I normally do in traditional sketches.  The second image is a pass in black-and-white using the screentone filter to produce texture.  I like how this looks but I don't know if this is the final look I'll go with.  Nothing is set in stone at this point.

The bottom image is the gestures I've been doing for this character in my sketchbook to figure out their personality and acting.  The repetitious drawings also help me to develop a muscle memory for their unique shapes, sizes, proportions, and details.  I do use model sheets to help keep me consistent when working on longer projects, but I also want to have the big stuff memorized so things run smoothly as possible as I'm quickly sketching out thumbnails and tinkering with compositions.

January 1 2024

Happy New Year!  Time to get back on the bandwagon and blog!

Last year I went down the rabbit hole of plant-based eating after reading Gut by Giulia Enders.  This book talks about the importance of the gut microbiome and the relationship between it and our overall health.  I'm focusing now on eating tons of fiber and a wide variety of plants to make the tiny creatures inside of my gut happy.  Happy bacteria = happier and healthier me!

Cooking for me is essentially throwing a bunch of veggies together in different combinations and seeing what tastes edible.  I've been tracking my culinary experimentations by drawing meals in my sketchbook.  Above is what I ate in the evening of the first.  I don't like how I drew my breakfast sketch so it's MIA, but I had banana carrot bread, a scramble of egg, spinach, bell pepper, and onion with a massive cup of coffee and almond/coconut creamer-hooray!

Hello blog, it's been a while...

It's been 7 years since I've posted here!!!

This site was my main online hangout back in the day, but I gravitated away from Blogger when I started my Instagram account back in 2015.  With all the turmoil on social media this quiet spot is now an oasis I want to spend some time in again.  I have some catching up to do talking about what I've been up to these past years, but in the meantime, here's a sketch of me drawing me and my yummy lunch from the other day...

Dragon Pattern

From my sketchbook... I drew this while finishing up theRadBrad's Watch Dogs walkthrough.  I think I'm going through Call of Duty Infinite Warfare next.

Pens: Zebra pen-fine point, Stabilo markers, plus some color revision in PS

Tower Tarot Card

From my sketchbook...  I drew this while watching theRadBrad's Watch Dogs walkthrough on YouTube.

Pens: Zebra pen-fine point, Tombo marker, Stabilo marker, Stabilo fine-point pens