GI JOE!

Here are a bunch of pencil drawings I did for a GI Joe book earlier this year before the film came out.

Week 14

This is the final class painting in Al Gury's portrait class, it's basically done, I'll see if I want to tickle on it again next week.

More Commuters

This weekend I got to finish a painting and start two new ones, one of which is a commission. I finished up the painting of my buddy Ricardo Villagran and will submit that to the school wide student show tomorrow. I started a painting of my friend Alina, which I will work on for one of my final paintings is school for Al Gury's portrait class. the painting of Ric will also count for a painting toward my finals and that leaves me only one more portrait to do. I am honestly looking forward to the break now to paint as much as I can and get some more paintings done on my commuter series so I can start approaching galleries. I'd love to do nudes, but in Philly that would be a waste of time gallery wise. I feel like I am finally back into my groove painting, I felt I was out of sync for a spell there.

Read a whole issue of Doll and Creature--for FREE!

A few years ago I worked on a really fun project called Doll and Creature with my buddies Rick Remender and John Heebink. They wrote and drew it and I inked it and I think it's one of the best, if maybe not the best inking job I have ever done. The book was originally a graphic novel that came out through Larry Young's company AT/Planet Lar, which Rick later got reprinted in color at Image as a 4-issue mini-series and then reprinted/collected as a graphic Novel.

Well now you can read one of teh entire issues online for FREE right here. I had a lot of fun on this series and hope that maybe someday we all can either revisit that dark zombie-like world of the future or work on another project again.

Week-13

I skipped school today to work at home since the painting I had going in my portrait class was really close to being done, instead I worked on this portrait today of my buddy Ricardo, and since this is from a series of photos I took of him riding on the train, this will fit in with my Commuter series to boot!

Week 12 Done!

With this week's classes coming to an end we have less than a month left of school now and I still have a lot of work to do, mostly paintings but also two papers to write. I am starting my final paintings for school this week for my outside assignments and working on a commission I have to do one of my urban/train paintings. the painting above is another pass on the portrait I have going in Al Gury's portrait class. the drawings below are from our last trip to the Natural History Museum to do some drawings of the live birds in their bird habitat. The parrot and cockatoo were really animated, I think the cockatoo was in love with me as he really put a show on whenever I got close to sketch him.

Week 12 Progress

I slapped some color on this painting yesterday and today, I have a few more passes at it before the final crit.