One more time

At this gig they allowed me to use a little rendering. It was just in time for the Con. Now I feel all warmed up.

This the first one that I started feeling it.


Um this dude(on the left) I kneeew was going to be some kinda experience. He asked if I could draw him and said that he would love me forever if I did. I told him I hoped he didn't live long. He kept asking me if he could pose with his hands; doing the robot, double vikings, fist on his chin. He picked doing the robot, and even after I drew them and told him they where drawn he kept asking for poses. I would remind him, "Dude I already drew your hands doing the robot." He would go, "Oh Yeah" and remove his fist from his chin. He screamed like a little short-haired girl when I showed it to him, and hugged me, too much. Every time he would walk by later in the night he would hug me and say, "Thanks I'll love you forever." I threw up a little in my mouth. He even stuck around while I was drawing other people to laugh and make jokes about him coming out of the closet. Oh by the way while I was drawing him he bit 2 girls on the ass, and one dude.


I don't know if I pulled off what I was trying to do with his lips. The girl was just about 2 meals away from evaporating.

After the con

I was so fired up after the con, I just couldn't wait to get in the park and sketch. I was really inspired by the artwork that I saw there.

I just drew these guys for fun. They were waiting for Coby to finish drawing their kid.

Thought it would be fun to light him from underneath for a change.

Mini-Con

I ran a Caricature Convention here in San Diego on Tuesday the 19th. With about 30 in attendance(twice the# that I thought would show.)Artist from all over San Diego, L.A. and Orange County came to draw each other funny.
I thought it would be fun to practice what the real convention is like, and give the artists that aren't going a chance to experience some of the same fun. It was alot of work, and even though it didn't seem like it at times, diffently worth it. Court Jones was a ton of help. He's been to a bunch of conventions before, and was a great resource on the format, and procedures.


Here's my little wallspace at the Min-Con here in San Diego. I was running around doing all the execuative stuff and didn't have as much time to draw as everyone else:( I also gave one of my drawings to my friend, forgetting that I needed it for the competition. (DUMB)

It was a good sketch day

In the morning I had this really boring event at a furniture store "grand re-opening." Hardly anybody showed up. They gave away $10000 dollars in store credit to some family, and $100 to the first 100 people. It was sad really, after 5hours they still were not at 100 customers. After that I zipped off to work and drew for 3 busy hours. My marker was just dancing all over the page. The sketches were drawing themselves, and I was having so much fun just drawing as fast as I could.

This lady said that when she shows this to her son, his eyes are gonna pop right out of his skull. Old people say silly things.

My buddy Dale

This is my buddy Dale. He likes sweets, and drinking lots of soda. None of his teeth are getting along. Maybe cause each of them are a different color.
He sweeps up after litter-bugs. So when you go to a theme-park, throw lots of trash on the ground or even better in the bushes, or you'll force this guy outta a job. Thanks America!

Maybe a little progress

Had a couple gigs in the same day. All outdoor. At the first one they feed us awesome Bar-B-Que! They second I sat in the "No-Tip-Zone"

I liked my lines on this one.







This was my favorite of the night. I sketched them both out, and got my lines to match up.

Drawing at a little picnic with Court Jones

It was a great learning experience sitting next to Court for this gig. His line work iss amaaazzing! I was trying to study his execution, and really focused on how he does noses. He can do them effortlessly in about one continuous line. I feel mine have become to monotonous, and so I tried to replicate his results. Please just let me know what you think of the likeness's, where I went wrong or where there is room to improve. I would really appreciate any kind of critique for this one, or any other post. I'm posting my sketches so that I can improve.

This girl had a little snaggley tooth on the left. When I saw it I asked her to smile a little bigger and said" It looks like you got one hiding in there." She didn't open her mouth any more after that.







I luv drawing me them fat kids.

One night to render.

After drawing with Joe Bluhm, I decided that foe this gig I was going to try some of the techniques that I saw Joe use. All sketches were penciled, inked, and then rendered with a black prismacolor art stick


Not the first one, but the first not to look like crap. It was really hard to try something different at first, but then I really got into it.











I know this girl doesn't look it but she is a party animal. She really did have those big ears, but she covered them up for the picture. This was my favorite of the night. Had fun with the hair.

I don't know whhhyyyy this guy wasn't wearing a shirt, but they let him run around like that, and who am I to judge.