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Halloween

WOW!!! I have not posted in forever!!! Man, well I’ve been practicing the basics of form, kids, animals, and women. Now that doesn’t mean I’ve been getting any better at any of these, but look at this cool kid I whipped up... awwww, isn’t he cute! Yeah, so I’m moving to Texas in November, I’ll let y’all know bout that later, (heheh, I said y’all). Anywho, the color’s on the way!

Moshed Potato

I can't believe I haven't posted this yet! This one was for a friend last year. Notice, those emo don't stand a fighing chance against a hardcore spud! He probably got roundhouse kicked in the eye... ba-dump chshhhh... sorry.

Cleanin' up (PG style)

well, if you read my blog, you would've seen the 'controversial' add I did for a pool party with a pig in a NOTW speedo and a naked elephant. Unfortunately, being a pastor in training, the drawing has gotten some negative attention, with comments rolling in sounding something like… “he looks pretty sketchy, you should dress him”, “I don’t think you should have this risqué of a pic on your site”, and “you still owe me 5 bucks!”… psssh, everyone’s a critic. Anyway, I thought I’d go ahead and keep my mom from grounding me somehow and add some fashionable clothes to this piece. (I don’t care how long ago you moved out, they can find a way to ground you well on into your 60’s!) Seeing as how I’ve been selected to do the semester shirt at my college and have recently changed one of the colors, I thought this would be a perfect time for a dual debut! So without further ado...


...that's right!

Shirt Design

This is a design I submitted for the shirt for my college's next semester. The theme is Daniel 12:3, (a particularly difficult address to remember, phssh 'dan 123') anyway, I looked up the word for righteousness in the original Hebrew and found something rather interesting! The word TSADAQ (which is on the front of the shirt) means not only righteousness but also justice and salvation! It also just so happens to be the word they use for Jupiter, which was perfect for the starry theme of the scripture. Anyway, they may need me to change up the colors a bit, but I’m still constrained to three tones at the max! SUXVILLE! But as long as it gets used for the semester and I get the satisfaction of seeing my design on the entire student body, I’ll be set ;). The sleeve has a pic of the constellation Leo with Daniel 12:3 written in hebrew over it. Oooh, quick lil’ side note, notice how hard it is to draw Jupiter that small with only three tones, it came out looking like a space hamburger!

THE FRONT


THE BACK


THE SLEEVE

HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!



just a quick sketch I did for my sisters. whatchya think?

Learning From the BIG BOYS!!!

I've been on an animation kick lately, and certain cartoon/broad style artists have been my inspiration of growth with my art. Primarily Shane Lewis, Tom Bancoft, and Harald Siepermann, all of whose blogs I read daily and attempt to mimic their style by attempting some of their more simple works. Of course I’m no where near as good as they are; these are trained professionals with degrees in art and design and I’ve only been drawing regularly for not even a year!

Here’s a flying pig I drew along with Shane Lewis’ instructional video, yeah, I know it doesn’t look exactly like it, but that’s actually a good thing. (please don’t sue me Shane)



You can see I completely jacked his style to do this pig in a flyer for a pool party. The caption above this pic read ‘bring your own swim suit’, (B.Y.O.S.S.) with an arrow pointing to the pig’s speedo saying ‘good’ and arrows pointing to the elephant’s censor bars saying ‘bad’.


Once again I used Shane’s postings to attempt a new endeavor in photoshop. I’ve never digitally colored anything besides all the effects I did in my play poster, I hope I’ve made my teacher proud ;)

trading crafts...

I have a friend named Ashley Schatzinger who has made me some awesome beanies! They cost me the originals of both of these pictures which I drew specifically for her. They kinda pertain to some inside jokes we have...

this is the first one I drew for her for a blue beanie. We served together in the retreats that they had at the shool conference center as waiters and greeters. I actually got kicked off of the greeting team because I was known to 'goof around' too much when greeting the guests. I mean seriously, what's wrong with an grandois bow, a dozen or so different accents, a few hugs, and some festive singing and dacing to welcome the retreaters to their dining experience? The retreaters loved it, they called me the foreign exchange student!!! But, unfortunately, the retreat staff didn't appreciate it as much. (sorry it's a lil wrinkled)



this is a sketch I did of her dog for a red beanie. probably the farthest i've strayed into realism in some time, but she liked it either way ;) unfortunately, this is a copy of a copy :(

Caricatures!... (I think that's how ya spell it, heh)

I nearly forgot about these things!!! I've drawn random people around campus with noticeable faces and had a lil fun with 'em. I'll name them off for ya...

from left to right, top to bottom, we have Zachary Moore, me, Ricky Bobby, Ramon Torres, and some quick doodles



Ramon again, Izzy w/Victor Trujillo's hair (oooohh, the irony), Camry coughing as usual, and Ian (please don't kill me if I spelt ur name wrong)


Here's my homeboy, Andrew! this guy's a hoot!


ohh yeah, in a chuck-track, Pastor Chuck said that he used to come home every day, look at his hibiscus plant and shout, 'praise the Lord hibiscus!' and thusly the plant would flourish. he also stated that if he came to your place and noticed your plants were wilting, he might have an idea why, heheh ;)


These guys are my homies, J-dawg and slothbo (aka jeremiah crespo from destroy the runner)


when Camry is not coughing uncontrollably, she is a jedi warrior


can't forget my friend Megan, this is her kiddy pic *(lean like a chola!!!)


just for your information, if you don't tell me what it is you want to be doing in your pose, I'll give you something to do, heheheh ;]. Take this lovely example of the proverbs 31 clad Alicia, Wesley, and Abigail... eat your heart out boyz!


here's another of Izzy... with a monkey throwing poop at him. but still... something's missing.


... aaaahh yes! a burrito



And last but not least, my personal favorite... the UK girls. This one recieved a great deal more time & attention then the other ones, these friends are also very special too me as well. On the left we have Sara from Scottland, the girl who gives me the awesome requests for pics such as the lil scott girl and the golfing dinosaurs. On the right we have Emma from England, who keeps me in my place and looks out for my constantly as her brother in Christ. I'm priviledged to have friends like these 2.

aaaahhh... L'amor

welp, I tried my hand at depicting love and it didn't come out too bad, I think. I wanna still photoshop a cool background in it, we'll see what I do w/ it.

PPG

yeah, so maybe I went through a fad or two growing up... this was still an awesome concept. Craig McCracken was a genius with this whole show. I the show was hillarious! yeah, so I got a lil obsessed and got the bed set, posters, and all the collectables, even had my email address as LennyBaxter (the ppg compulsive collecter) but hey, at least It wasn't something lame like salor moon... pphhhssh!

anyway, here's some pics from back in the day, (99, 00, & 01).

these next 2 are from a art war I had with my bro Alex. he designed this character who was some magical pokemon trainer named Damien and he audaciously believed that Damien could defeat the awesome might of the powerpuff trio! we would draw comic back and forth with them fighting. this one has both Damien and Alex gettim a whoopin!






Bubbles art collage for a friend


the DYNAMO


and what artist doesn't draw their fav super hero beating up their 8th grade teacher, I mean seriously... c'mon!

MIGGLES!!!

Well, I've been working on a simple, stylistic creature to begin illustrating my children's books and I think I've come to a conclusion... MIGGLES!!! Yeah, I first thought of having him be a cross between eerie dark and innocent, basically a cross between Jhonen Vasquez and Elaine Bogan in concept. What came out was a furry little alien without a name. we thought 'Charlie' or 'Bucky' would be fitting but the answer came in a dream! (...actually, Amanda's dream) But nevertheless, the evolving project is now under the name Miggles. A work in progress but already winning hearts... the little playa ;p

here's some head shots...

various poses...

and of course... Friends!


Once again, it's a work in progress. But I'm sure we'll have some fun with this guy!

more work

i thought i'd catch up and post some of my older stuff just to make it easier to share... Another skecth for 'me mate', Sarah. She gives awesome requests, so it makes it easy to fake creativity ;)


practicing females...


ickchekh..... I was so close to not even posting this ugly thing, but it'll show progression at most.


So there is this character on 'Go Diego Go' called rescuepack, as you can see he's a spin off from Dora's 'Backpack' but he turns into stuff that'll come in handy throughout Diego's adventures. So I thought to myself... 'what if he turned into stuff that was... well.. a little more practical?' here's the result...

this one was fun. A friend of mine, named Ashley, bugged me for weeks to draw her a horse! i gave her a few 2 min sketches but she wouldn't take 'em! here's what she got when i finally got around to it!


practicin peeps...


hands...


and birds... the one on the right are the crazy mud hens that are always reaping havoc around the campus.



ooh, and check this out, I found an old sketch I did in 7th grade! this one goes way back to 98! which would make me... 13 or so...

MAIN PIC

btw, the main pic i have upo is NOT Jesus. I honestly don'tknow what Jesus looked like so I try to keep from drawing His face. This would be the Apostle Paul enchained in Phillipi, you can see the joy in his face for a reason. Brothers and sisters, set your eyes on the Lord and what can rob you of your hope of salvation and eternal perspective?

Go ahead... read the commentary...

more doodles

yeah, I figured I needed to post some more doodles I've done... here ya go...

here's a stupid sketch of a bunch baby Ashley Schatzinger with a baby J thrown in the mix just to make some trouble. I made the comment that it'd be cool to have a bunch of baby Ashleys running around and if there were would she give me one... she said yes! I can't wait!
Here's my friend Kai-Kai beating up the rapist that there is here in temecula. Some one needs to put that sucka in his place, might as well be her...


This is a sketch I did for my baby sister (Colie) on her 8th birthday, she said she wanted something with puppies, I think I captured that lil' princess just fine, hehe.
A little toon in class by requst of my UK friend Scottish Sarah! oorrright!
And of course here's the drawing I did of Mater which I gave to my aunt Terrie, she loaned me some money when my car got towed, so the original of this drawing has her purse on it, this is a copy of a copy that I gave to my acts teacher (Rod Thompson), you can see the alterations that've been made, hahaha.