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Growing Up

Coffee Shop Sketchin' 2

A collection of sketches from cafes, friends' homes, road trips to NYC and Montreal, a life drawing class, and a couple of peaceful days outside.

Progression pt. 1

This is a pretty inspiring exercise. Starting out with interesting colors and making shapes. And then try to imagine something in the picture. Scott Robertson did a dvd about this. This the most finished I've taken one of these sketches. I want to keep going with it, see if I can polish it even more, play with different ways to lead your eye around. I'm very interested in rendering as a tool for where you can lead the eye.

Listening to Radiohead

Color and Shape

This is a simple/quick study from a photo taken in Venice, Italy back in March '08. I don't do these types of studies very often, or at least I haven't done it much before now. I used to look at a photo and see every detail, imagine myself there, with the sounds and the smells and feel the air on my skin... it was too overwhelming to try and translate all of this into a painting, the weight of the information would crush me before I began. But now, seeing a photo as nothing more than chunks of color, it has helped me simplify the process of translating it to my hand.



And another thing, I feel like color is one of those things that is really hard to get at first, but as you familiarize yourself with colors you know how they work together to create whatever u want. It's so different from drawing.

Belt of Orion

This idea came from a quick conversation with a friend about his ideal studio to jam with other musicians. It quickly turned into an idea bout a floating wolf's eye that took a band to the Belt of Orion for a music video. I made it a wolf's head for the image because it reads a little easier.

Fun with color 2

Landscape Sketch

30 minutes.

Thumbnailin'

Fake Poster Sketch

Just messin' around.

Coffee Shop Sketchin'

These are from the past few months.

This was inspired by Shaun Tan's book Tales from Outer Suburbia.