Drawing again

Some days I sketch, other days I paint. It's been a longtime sense I've actually drawn for sake of drawing and made a finished piece. 

This is a compilation of iconography from the band Coheed and Cambria. Not complete but I like the way it's turning out.

The depths of life

You know they say tomorrow is a new day. But what they don't tell you is that the hurricane won't be out of town yet and the streets will be flooded with struggles. The waves will crash on your door, blow out you windows and drag you under. There will be moments when you feel the surface approaching, just out of reach. But then another wave comes crashing in and you are pulled to the bottom of the ocean. All you want is a gasp of air, all you have is suffocation, all you need is lifeline to pull out back from the depths.

I'm still praying for my lifeline.

Rx in progress

Finally made this painting. It is a portrait of a plague doctor surrounded by pill bottles. I came up with the idea as an examination of how pharmaceuticals are used to cure anything and everything because no one is normal, everyone is sick.

Life can get in the way of art, or is the other way around?

I've been rather busy lately. I've done some sketching, but nothing I feel like sharing on here. Over the past few weeks I've put more emphasis on school work, work work, and my wife. This has left little time for me to paint or work on that children's book that I should be slaving away on. At the end of the day I wish I had a few more hours to lock myself in studio and draw. I doubt I would get much done though as I seem to have hit that period of creative block and lack of motivation. We'll see if I can find some time in the next few weeks to come up with something to post for you all. Until then stay happy.

Painting progress

So I took a little time away from going insane and decided to do some work on my paintings. The three piece ghost piece has been getting on my nerves so I just decided to sketch out some skeletons with ink and I painted them in with yellow. I actually used my finger for the yellow paint. For the "Gods Revived" painting I began to fill in the flesh/bone tone on the figures and started adding some of the cloth detail.

Projects

I took some time this week to start packing up my studio for the move. There are something's I will not be able to take to Texas with me. It sucks but I can sacrifice some studio space for a new place and new people. I also took the time to work a few projects.

I finally painted my longboard. I used the idea of the yellow bird that I did an illustration of not too long ago. Over all if think it turned out great.

I also started on a new painting of "The Gods". I did not like how the illustration on paper was turning out so I took the old painting of the god of capitalism and sprayed over it. So far I just have the layout and figures sketched out.

Finally I did a quick sketch of my comic characters in pen. I like the raw look of the gesture type sketch. I did not use pencil by I wanted to see how they would look just sketched out in pen.

Busy Bee

The past month has been rather crazy. I started taking two online courses. One is on the basics of adobe creative suite. I have a basic understanding of illustrator, photoshop, and indesign, so so far it's pretty easy. I'm looking foreword to learning how to use flash and dream weaver. The other class is on advertising and public relations. It's pretty self explanatory and basic common sense knowledge of how advertising works.

Besides that Jackie and I have been trying to figure out if we can make a move down to Houston, TX. We are both excited about being somewhere new, somewhere that provides opportunities for us to grow (unlike the town we are in). Hopefully we can both find jobs down there pretty soon.

So take all the excitement of college classes and trying to move, on top of the joys of living in our place, makes for a rather hectic month. By joys I mean utter frustration. We've had to have our furnace worked on twice and something happened either with the electrical or the Directv box that caused two TVs to fry. Fun stuff to say the least.