Web Work

This little pic is going to be used on this site, so check it out:
http://www.horse-books-pony-stories.com/index.html

Correction: coalition-independent-authors.com

YEE-AAAAAAHHHH! Dun-duna-dun...

I have a problem. I am addicted to CSI: Miami, and I admit it. The people are terrible actors and the cases are off-the-wall, but I can't stop.

So enjoy this chibi-style fan art I whipped up. That, of course, is Horatio.

Portrait and La Luna news

One of my co-workers asked me to draw a picture of his late father. I scanned in a 1" x 1.5" photo, blew it up, and printed it out on two letter-sized papers.

Using my "light table" (a door with a big glass insert), I mapped out major areas and planes. Then I looked off the photo to do shading and details. And viola! The actual mapping and drawing took about an hour.

The local newspaper short on my largest project.

An ending and a beginning

This is a sketch for a new project. I was contacted to draw some icons/logos for a series of book genres for a website. Children/young readers is the subject.


Me and the owner of La Luna, Marlee Ramirez, in front of the finished mural. Will be getting a professional photo taken soon, hopefully, and also I will post the small newspaper article on me next time.

La Luna fortuna!

So I've been doing a lot of work on La Luna's mural. The first two pictures will have to be full-view to see my sketching, but it's there. Just like my murals at Poplar Point, I gridded out my sketch, then gridded out the wall proportionally. Next, just like a kid's coloring book, I copy the line work from square to square.


To make the marks on the wall, I used the cheap and efficient China marker, a.k.a. crayon pencil. Actually, I wasn't sure how that would stick, but it performed very well. The wax stuck to the stucco, and it is weather-resistant.



I would make more progress, but I'm also working full-time at the chicken plant. Gotta pay the bills before my student loans catch up to me. Still, this is an awesome project, and the Carroll County News is going to have a short article on my work. That means great advertisement for me and the restaurant. Everybody wins!

Process of a painting

This is an abbreviated version of my painting process. Lately I've been starting with a digital sketch (upper right). Then I make a hand-drawn line sketch (upper left). Next I blow it up to size (bottom).


Then I paint. I try to start with the back, because you can tell when someone paints the background around the subject. It's not as visually pleasing.




And finito!

Dual projects-mural and the big easy

Rights of photos to those who took them.
This is a digital sketch of what we're thinking about on the mural project. The background will be more beach-like, and the art will reflect both Mexican folk art and historic Mesoamerican art, like the Aztecs.


This pic hasn't changed a lot, so I'll be making a hand-drawn sketch soon.