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Some faces culled from my sketchbook.

Went to a club called Good Hurt, just down the street. Hung out with some friends and did a few sketches too.

I did this caricature of Alina as revenge for all her misdeeds. That’s all she’s got online, but you should see my poor sketchbook she destroyed with evil drawings. It’s too painful for me to scan. So I did some quick doodles in pencil, scanned them, hacked them together in photoshop and added some color. I wasn’t trying to clean it up. The final image was always intended to be the watercolor. I like the pencil one best. The face kind of changed by the time I got it to the watercolor. I haven’t had as much time to paint and draw lately, but I want to try and spend a bit more time on the ones I do, just to more consciously work towards improving.

Below you can see some of the quick sketches I did to figure out how I’d approach this.

Now if I can only get photoes of Cholki and Mark…

A painting I started at Descanso Gardens and finished up at home. Usually when I paint something like this I do a lot of pushing and pulling. I build up real slow and just keep pushing things back and other forward and hope that when it’s all done, something decent comes out of it.

Went to Descanso Gardens with a group of friends for some drawing, painting, photography and goofing around.

Here’s a quick pen sketch I did while someone else pretending to draw trees was not.

Quick watercolor…didn’t quite pull it off, but managed to do some things with color.

Went to check out the Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown here in Los Angeles. The company was great, but the parade was a bit underwhelming. I wish I’d some drawings of the tiny kids performing traditional dances before the parade. They were quite amazing and cute. Too bad they weren’t in the parade.

Painted this based off a thumbnail pose I drew at dance performance a few months back. Been busy lately working on my short. The thumbnails shown were drawn in the dark. Hard to draw when you can’t see the paper…gotta work on that. You can see where it becomes completely dark in the progression of poses.