Life Drawings

    I go to weekend life drawing sessions at school as often as I can.  It's really wonderful that the school offers this opportunity.  And I've finally got around to arranging a few of my favorite drawings on nice pages.
    On several occasions, I've brought my laptop and tablet to get in some speed color practice. There are usually no desks in the room (everyone else uses easels), so it's a pretty awkward-looking setup.  Sometimes I wish I had a larger tablet, but life drawing class is never one of those times.  

         

October Illustrations

Some FireCracker Weekly work for the October issue.  Illustrating articles about the importance of keeping track of earnings in a notebook,  pet visits to senior homes, and the history of vampires.

  

GALATEA: Character Portraits

  Lately I've been seriously developing this story as an online graphic novel.  As a part of character creation, I drew out a bunch of these portrait busts to make sure each cast member has his/her own unique look and distinctive features.
    The main character is Corin (the girl with the orange headband), and main/supporting cast is all mixed together here.
    1st set= Corin and her family
    2nd set= Crew of the Lady Epiphania
    3rd set= from the city

     I also used these to make family trees.  Deciding which features to share between parents/children/siblings is a fun challenge.

Character Study: Adine

I've been trying to visualize this lady for a while.  She's the main antagonist of a graphic novel I'm currently planning.  It's always great exploring the personalities of smart, manipulative characters!

Kaiyo and Syril Posters

  My two favorite brothers!  I wanted to try something more like cover art--sort of half graphic and half scene.  They ended up looking good as printed posters, so I'm printing 'em out and sticking them on my wall somewhere.  Painting all the material details was great practice.  Pencil and Photoshop. 

More FireCracker Illustrations

An assortment of illustrations I did for FireCracker (http://firecrackerweekly.com/), accompanying various articles and fiction stories. 

Dye

     I did this illustration for an art showcase at my school.  

The woman is a character of mine, in a story moment.  I won't go into the full tale, but for this I wanted to show that her dyeing her hair represents a tragic loss of identity.