Art Journals Club - Or Indulging My Inner Melodrama

I cosponsor an art journal club at work, trying to get kids into the idea of journal with art. We're making homemade books, everyone doing a piece for everybody else. I knocked out three this weekend. Small little exercises in paint and ink.
Inspiration brought to them by Danny Gregory, after I showed them a bunch of scans from his book in class.

"Nicole - Heartsleeves"

"Dillion - Bet You Thought I Was Gonna Use Red"

"Aubry - One Closes, One Opens. Which is Which"

Comics in Progress: Part Deux - Done?

Great, Fun Sketch Site.

http://sketch.odopod.com. All kinds of cool stuff.

Comics in Progress

Working with a friend on a story. He created the story, I created the pictures. His nickname is Zippy. I don't have a good nickname like that.

Ink, paper, photshop

T Shirt Contest Design

For a Hurley contest. For some reason, I did something wrong and I didn't get in. They haven't emailed me back yet about what I did wrong, but I like it, anyways.

Back to the Drawing Board

Not starting over, but actually back to drawing AT the drawing table and not some approximation. I actually get stuff done. I inked this whole page in about 1.5 hours and started on another.

Crestock.com has these great propaganda poster parodies. Some are hysterical. I've always been a fan of propaganda art style if not the content.


I really dig the work of Pascal Campion, too. His compositions are great and his use of color and mood are incredible. Insane ability to capture the feeling of place or action scene. Check out his great animations.

He has a grat blog he keeps with fellow francophile Mathieu Forichon. There are incredible pieces where the friends riff on a them back and forth.

Painting in Sketchbooks

Sketch book page. The Rocket Kitty was pained over a real bad fluffy-demon-shitzu-dog type drawing that embarrassed me every time I looked at it. The other side is just colored drawings that were already there except the devil dude. He's covering up another really bad life sketch. I'm really crap at sketching, so I guess the bad sketches will help me to produce more paint sketches. But I'm not sure what to do when those are bad.

I worked on these and used the leftover paint...


...of this one. This is page 1 and 2 of new painted comic I'm working on. I'm trying to work on it in the way I might journal. To keep the art loose and free. I tend to tighten up and produce junk when I get all, like, it's on bristol and and it's final art and I gotta make it all good and stuff.

We'll see what happens. I gotta get art an house projects done before my summer classes start.

Eostre Mix For My Homies

Every year I make an Eostre mix for my family and have fun with the cover. Here's this year's.


Also, here's some quick scans of some painting s in progress for a local art gallery's Green themed show. I used the theme "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". I even painted them on old cereal boxes. This was the most pure painting I've done in a long time. It was pretty fun.

Rebel Arts and Rebel Artists....um..kind of.

I got this cool little sketchbook while in Chicago and will fill it. A saying on one side, an illustration on the other. All in black, white and red. The first line, which isn't there right now, will say: "I will.."

This is the first page. The left side was supposed to be cleaner, but I got impatient with wet guache.


And here's a bonus sketch on a menu from Gino's East in Chicago. Here's what I said on FB:

A 10 minute sketch of E waiting for the pie at Gino's in Chicago. This is pre-droopy-eye-drunk-dial-screechy-laugh-E. Ain't she purdy!