Category: Art
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Popcorn Monster Music Video
I illustrated and animated a music video for the children’s band, Puppet Holiday. What started as a 10 second loop of a popcorn monster chasing the Puppet Holiday characters Fin and Otis, evolved into a full music video complete with a Ska kernel playing sax. I enjoyed the unexpected challenge of figuring out the math…
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like?
For the 2022 midterm elections I spontaneously offered friends on social media to draw the animal of their choice if they voted. It started as a way to keep me from doom scrolling the fate of our democracy but ended up being pretty fun. These are the drawings redone digitally.
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The Dancing Prisoner
Here’s some artwork for a story that I’ve put on the back-burner. The comic would be based around a mysterious old prisoner that spends 23 hours a day in solitary confinement for an unknown crime and then for his one hour of exercise a day, he dances nonstop. All the drawings were done in pencil…
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MoCCA Festival 2017
Fresh from the printer – “President Trump Sketchbook – The First 50 Days” will make its debut at MoCCA Festival this weekend! It can be yours for the low price of $10 with all proceeds going to Planned Parenthood. Come by table H245 to get your copy. Can’t make it to MoCCA? The book will…
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Art for Women of Wonder Benefit Auction
I did this 9″x12″ ink wash drawing of Big Barda relaxing on her throne for the annual Women of Wonder Day auction which benefits the SAFE in Hunterdon, NJ. SAFE is a great organization that helps survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. You can be present for the silent auction this weekend, Oct. 28-29, or you can…
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Still Life on Fidelity
I did this ink drawing a couple of years back to work on my hatching. I wasn’t very consistent, but the sloppiness adds some character to the overall feel of the piece. I recently tried re-drawing it with a more uniform hatching look which turned out looking cleaner but a bit stiff. I’m not sure…
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Figure Drawing 8
Here’s a different inking version of the drawing I posted a while ago. For this version I used a nib
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Travel Sketches: St. Petersburg
Charcoal on Paper, 8″x10″ I went to St. Petersburg, Russia a couple of years ago on my honeymoon. We did a lot of tourist stuff (including a marathon tour of the Hermitage) but also had a couple of days to relax and lounge about in our favorite places. This sketch is of one of the…
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Figure Drawings 7
Pastel on Paper, 18″x 24″ Since so much of cartooning is straight line drawing, I was trying to break my habit of doing mostly line drawings of live figure models. This style, which I made by smearing my finger with pastel and then smudging the paper accordingly, is sort of the antithesis of line art. …
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Five Minute Figure Sketches
Five minute sketches can be a good way of filling the paper without getting too precious. I have a tendency to dwell on my mistakes which is most often counter-productive. A short time limit forces me to embrace my errors, and in the immortal words of Tim Gunn, “Make it work!”
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Travel Sketch: London
Charcoal on Paper, 9″x12″ I recently got back from a fantastic vacation to New Zealand. While looking through our photos, I was reminded of some of the sketches I did on past vacations. Last year, I was lucky enough to have a spare hour during a nice Fall day to sit down and sketch a…
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Band Sketches
The folk-rock band I’m in is putting out a CD in a couple of weeks. When we were brainstorming about album cover ideas, I did these sketches of Kyle and Corbett, the two songwriters of the group. I was exploring a new style (a la James Jean’s sketches) of simple line drawings done in pencil…
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