lesser evils

kung-fu masters, and monkeys

2007-11-14T17:44:00.001-08:00

I've done illustrations for my friend Chris Genoa before for his sci-fi absurdism book, Foop!
He's working on a new one, The Monkey and the Barrel, which he asked me to some illustrations for. I'll show them off here, for posterity's sake.

a drunken kung-fu master

a very tall kung-fu master

a monkey kung-fu master

More in park sketches

2007-05-17T12:03:00.000-07:00

I liked how this one turned out. I wish the guy would have smiled, but the bodies turned out good.

I like the eyes and the nose on this guy. I could have pushed the girl's
exaggeration a bit more, but I flaked.

forgot to get a photo of these people but I liked the sketch.

back at Sea world...

2007-05-16T02:15:00.000-07:00

I'm drawing at Sea world again for a while. Here's some photos
of a few drawings I did on Sunday and Monday.

a nice Lesbian couple

a nice Korean couple

a nice French couple

ahh, Shamu, I remember thee.

finally, a spider-drawing. luckily the board
didn't have a clamp on top so I was able to flip it to
draw the spider-man, then flip it
over again to draw his girlfriend.

c4 drawings

2007-05-08T19:54:00.000-07:00

I didn't have too much time to draw during the first day of the con while running around setting up sound, animation presentation, Speed competition. The second day was better, but I never really got into a groove. We did have a great guest speaker, David Colman, who I got
a lot of inspiration from.

Rachel Dukes. She's not a which, but she does cook up some buttons

Steve rendering one of Gabe's fingers. the one that counts.

Manny. I kinda messed up the coloring of this one.

Aaron Philby. Again, I should have left it B&W, but now I know.

Japanese kids

2007-05-08T19:53:00.000-07:00

pigs and couples

2007-04-15T00:26:00.000-07:00

this girl had some big eyes. I like the smaller lions like this one. And the monkey is totally checking out her boobs. I didn't plan that, it just sort of happened.

These kids were pig farmers from Utah. This guy was happy with his sketch.

and his sister liked it, but I think she was a little confused. I assured her it wasn't because i thought she was dead...

more park drawings

2007-04-14T20:48:00.000-07:00

my friend Fabian, who works at KGA. He was down for a class field trip!? to draw at the zoo. It was slow so I did a jacked up demo
.
...and his friend Jason

this was a nice Irish bloke. I spent some extra time on the color. it got me in an exaggerating mood.

this was a fun jungle body. i like this guy's face, and the girl's body.

this is my new fav panda body. I just like his face

and a fun triple.

camel guy

2007-04-05T22:21:00.000-07:00

this guy kind of looked like a camel, so it surprised me when he wanted to be with one.

crazy lion and jeep sketch

2007-04-01T19:05:00.000-07:00

quad color body

2007-03-26T22:36:00.000-07:00

sketchbook dump

2007-03-25T03:37:00.000-07:00

heres one of my friend Jared at sketch night

a drawing of Nate. We discussed what worked and what didn't. I was trying to squeeze some of the features in the page, which throws off the likeness a bit. I might try reworking this one to see what happens.

some dude at the Other Side

joe and Katie, reffing and voicing for the improv show.

a few faces drawn at City Deli on St. Patrick's Day

Christine, Lauren's friend, at sketchnight.

more random faces

some guy that was playing pool at the Other Side

sexy, nude, comic villains... aka, selling out, part 1

2007-03-11T18:18:00.000-07:00

this might be the first of many sexy, fantasy, comic book pair ups. I want to do a series of these.
any ideas for other pair ups. Bat girl and Supergirl.... Kitty and Rogue....

Toronto Trip, part 2

2007-03-05T23:29:00.000-08:00

here's some more sketches I did in Canada.

self portrait with markers... yeah, I have a beard now.

this guy was sitting like this at Union station... looking very sad, or sleeping.

Marlo, from the NCN boards. Marker and greymarkers. this one looses the likeness, but I had fun exaggerating

some faces at Future Bakery. the asian guy and the guy in the middle are my favorite.

two gentlemen at a pub called Gabby's

Leslie, in pencil. also not a good likeness, but I hadn't really done a good study of her face.

more faces at the Plug, another eating joint.

Toronto trip sketches part one

2007-03-05T03:26:00.000-08:00

got a new sketchbook and some pens to play with. The main source of faces was at Future bakery.

this is Vince, one of Leslie's friends.

He's like a young DeNiro. .. lil' bit.

and Mara...

who was a little shy.

mister David Brent

2007-01-28T02:43:00.000-08:00

the photo was kinda small, but this is what I picked up from it. Plus, I get to practice with the Chartpaks some more

CLEAR! beep.... beep

2007-01-27T00:12:00.000-08:00

I didn't want this thing to just die, and since I have a whole lot more free time on my hands now, I decided to post some oldish and newish drawings.

this is my most recent art, and oddly enough, one of the few paintings I have ever done. It's just a small little acrylic painting that I did for a small gallery thing the other day.

Some sketch faces, Silver style

more faces, inspired by Silver

I saw this guy in the airport last year.

this fellow was a mascot I designed for Comedy sportz in San Jose when I was doing that. They never used it. See how his arms make a "S" and a "J"?? maybe not.

these next ones are all presketches from the NCN con, last October. Some turned into things... some did not.

this is a Belgian gentleman named Danny.

this guy had a looong face. I liked his eyes, too.

this is the english cowboy

John was the first guy I drew on preview night. he's got great teeth!

the lovely batSam. I think I ended up drawing her as a fish swimming around in someone's head, but I still like how this one turned out.

and finally, Matt Zitman.

more when it happens!

more bad photos of caricatures

2006-08-31T00:30:00.000-07:00

these were taken with my camera phone. Obviously it didn't have the high
resolution setting on. so they look like caca...

father and son

the guy was just kinda buggy looking.

behold! another Caricature sketch blog

2006-04-23T20:22:00.000-07:00

Okay, first post of the sketch blog.

Here are some in park sketches I did last Tuesday. I tried to really exaggerate the whole day. A few of the early ones were done with a presketch, but most were just freehanded.

I find it a little hard sometimes to really exaggerate the faces when the bodies are going to be in there too, but sometimes the faces help themselves. These two guys didn't mind looking goofy as hell, so I went to town on them, and on the shark.

this was my favorite in terms of composition. The smaller guy had a rounder but eggplant shapped face, and his teethy smile and glazed eyes are a nice contracts to the scruffy other gent with round ears and teeth. The layout worked well, with some overlapping, but still getting the main features in there. for the tongue on the taller guy, I used the pink and shaded it with the Tuscan red. This creates some nice depth in the mouth.

I like the girls' teeth in this one. They were twins, and were making some really funky faces when I was drawing them. I captured them with their big eye look, not the squinty eye face that they were making in the photo. The boy was less successful, but still morphed into a droopy triangle, which I liked. The parents were cool. I'm kinda shocked they bought it.

A nice couple sketch. I drew the guy a little too hillbilly for his own look, but his teeth and small eyes aided to that. The girl had a chin that was nice and pointy and a wavy boned nose. I liked that they both had hats... it worked.

i'm definitely going to try to push the exaggeration more. It worked well, and I only got rejected once.