WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

This is for our recent theme for the sketch-o-rama blog.

With my "final" piece I wanted to go for more of a children's book feel. I also wanted to add some type that would complement the illustration and I knew I wanted it to be somewhat decorative. I've been messing around with type lately and successful or not, I've been enjoying myself. I wanted to go for a foresty look for this one, let me know what you guys think, might still need some tweaks. I will add color to this and post it in the near future so keep on the look out!

The other image is just a compilation from my sketchbook to show you guys what a spaz I am! I enjoy exploring my ideas and a new one constantly pops into my head sometimes in the middle of drawing some other idea/concept. This can sometimes frustrate me because it impedes my ability to take anything to finish, anything that I am not getting paid for at least !


I would love to hear your guys thoughts on this subject, how good are you guys to committing to an idea. I got a feeling a lot of people out there are like me and love to explore things, come on guys help me out here, I feel like a freak sometimes=)

THE U IS RISING!!!

This is a drawing of Jacory Harris, quarterback for the U!!!

My team is gaining national recognition again and I think if we can get by the next two games we have a free ride to the championship game!!!

Hope you guys dig!!

I will color this badboy soon.

LB23

So while the Playoffs where going on this past season I went on a LeBron drawing Binge on my sketchbook. I thought I'd share some of these, not usually what I like to draw but I enjoyed them and I hope you do to! Leave a comment if you diggs!!!

CHUD!

Theme for sketch-o-rama

Based on an 80's scary flick!

CATCHING UP/REDESIGN---welcome!!!

This was a fun piece to work on. Us at Sketch-o-Rama, decided to do Star Trek as a theme due to the summer movie. I decided to do a comic page for a change. I tried to focus on the coloring of the piece, because I think I would do a good job coloring comics one day. The gag is kinda stupid but it was quick and a ton of fun, hope you guys dig!



FETUS!!!

The deal with this character is that he is the most competitive fetus in the world. The only draw back is that he is a freaking fetus and can't really play any game well!!! Bless his heart he tries as hard as he can but his slimmy gooey fingers and limbs hinder his ability to compete!! One day fetus will win at something but for now...YOU CAN'T WIN FETUS!!!!



Introducing the cutest/meanest dog I have ever met!!

SERG!!

>>The Blog is now done!! I might change the banner if I can think of something better but for now this is it!!! Hope you guys like it, any feedback would be appreciated. And if you like what you see please sign up to follow the blog. Thanks!

Cleveland Art Museum

Hey everyone, it's been a really long time! I have been working, but also enjoying summer and being extremely busy. I will be making more frequent posts because I have a lot of stuff to share. In the meanwhile the Cleveland Art Museum just opened it's East wing and It's pretty amazing with works from Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas, Warhol, Gauguin and more. Amazing stuff!
Also they have a good variety of classical statues that are great for sketching. I did this sketch from a furniture piece I found really interesting. Hope you guys enjoy and I will be posting more soon!

+New Sketch-o-rama piece coming soon!!

PROGRESS~

Thor painting I started a while back, this version is about 50% finished, more on this one later.


This piece is big! about 24x36. The drawing is barely getting somewhere but I am excited about the possibilities for this piece. I will make a post for this painting soon!


This is the skate deck I finished for a group show here in town. The skate deck is going for $600.00 if anyone out there in internet land is interested.



Here is a taste of the personal projects I've been working on lately. I am back on the painting groove and I haven't felt this way since college when I was doing my senior thesis. I have a lot of people to thank for this new rejuvenated passion for painting but I won't name then here, you guys know who you are. Hope you guys enjoy the sneak peek and please drop me a line to say what's up. I am planning a solo gallery show in the fall so Im cranking, wish me luck!!

TERMINATOR!!!

Here is my piece for sketch-o-rama, I did a trillion sketches for this but ended up settling for this one. Oh well, hope you guys dig it and maybe I'll post up the rejected sketches. Got cool stuff I'm working on that I will post soon so keep it tuned in.

VAMPIRELLA!!

Hey all, just finished another sketch-o-rama post, this one was tons of fun and went fairly quickly, hope you all digs!!!

TRAPJAW!

Another sketch-o-rama goodie, hope ya dig it.

Who watches the Watchmen?? ME!!!!!!

Sketch-o-Rama challenge=Watchmen.


Dr. Manhattan learns about the human head structure while eliminating his enemies. Such an efficient fellow!

Cobra Commander REdesign

Hey all, some of my fellow artist and myself are starting sketch-o-rama back up again. Sketch-o-rama is a theme sketch blog where other awesome artist put up cool pieces based on themes we assign each other, mostly redesigns of cool characters we all love. The theme I came up with recently was to do a redesign of Cobra Commander. I'm talking about the way you envision the ruthless leader of Cobra, the most evil terrorist organization of all time!! This dude should be one badass looking bastard and personally I don't think giving him a serious breathing problem and a skin condition is quite enough for the leader of all this evil! Here's my take, hope you enjoy and I can't wait for everyone else to jump on this one!! PEACE!!!

Sushi Pack-DOUBLE TROUBE!

Hey guys, so I'm trying to update this blog regularly so I'm shooting for at least once a week!

This is a book I illustrated based on a show I worked on called Sushi Pack, on air on Saturday mornings on CBS!
Working on this book was a TON of work but worth it now that it's out in book stores everywhere so pick one up if you are hanging out and checking out some books!

I'm sharing just a few of the 16 spreads I did for this book. The book is a step into reading book meant to teach kids early reading skills and it's based on an episode from season 1.

Buy one here on Amazon if you care to pick one up and show some love!!

I hope you digs and let me know what you think of course=)

Hulk Test

Hey guys,

I have made a resolution(non-new years) that I will try and post something at least once a week. I will put my blogging into overdrive and start producing work like I used to. If you guys have any suggestions for themes they are more than welcome! For now this is a hulk study with me experimenting with photoshop and brushes. This took me around 30 min and it was fun. I know it is random but It was an impulse thing. Let me know what you think. Peace!

Skate-Deck Show

I will be in a custom stake deck show opening next week. Here is my progress so far.

Shoparooni Plushfrom Artshow!!!

Check out my custom plush I created for a local show here in Cleveland at Shoparooni, badass store!! It's up for auction so if you want total coolness to decorate your house with scoop this guy up, plus is for a good cause!

Hope you guys like it!!

Upcoming art show preview ~SOLDIERS ON BIKES~

So my friend and Art Director Anthony Davila invited me recently to take part in a local art show here in Cleveland. The show will be held at a bicycle shop and the theme has to loosely include bikes. I was really struggling for a while in deciding what to do for this show, one of the draw backs of not having ONE style to just fall back on, this part of the process is always the toughest. Luckily I've been sketching in my sketchbook a ton lately and from those sketches SOLDIERS ON BIKES emerged, haha random i know! I did a test piece to see if it was going to work and i dig the result a lot and I hope you guys do too. I will actually do this traditionally with painting and collage elements. Im excited and nervous at the same time so wish me luck. Drop a line if you guys dig this.

Thor Painting

So I'm back to the easel again . This time I am painting Thor the god of thunder. I will again do a process post and describe each step for you guys that enjoyed it last time. This is my very rough drawing and underpainting. I try to be as lose as possible to create gestural strokes and define masses with little limitation of details. This serves as almost a map for me to go from and then really define shapes and masses. I will now let this dry completely and go from there. I will let this piece develop very organically and take it one step at a time. I have no clue as to how much of a finished look this will have but I'm hoping once i reach that state i will just know. Hope you dig this first part and I will post the next session soon, I hope.

Experiments with Memories ~ "Taken"

~Taken~

I am currently working on a series of paintings entitled Experiments with Memories.

The work mostly deals with my attempt at recalling my childhood memories with no help from physical references like photographs and such. My childhood was unique by most standards and i feel like a lot of thoughts formed inside my head that were fictional but felt real at the moment. I will elaborate on my thoughts on this theme on later posts. For now please enjoy my sketch for this piece entitled "taken".

I am thinking on posting the process for this piece but I am still debating it.
The work will be done in oils for a future gallery show.
Any thoughts are appreciated.

Much love!

HULK+sketches

So a couple of us here at AG and my good friend and ex-co worker Jorge Lacera decided to do a hulk piece. Sometimes when i commit to these challenges the good illustration bug doesn't ever really strike so I end up with these endlesss sketches of randomness. Anyways I figured I'd post them anyways, I am working on an actual piece but it's iffy right now so I'm not sure if it'll ever get posted. I hope you guys like the random sketches anyways , enjoy!

MADBALLS!!

We here at American Greetings Properties recently had a gallery show showcasing the relaunch of MADBALLS. Some of you guys probably remember these gross yet awesome foam balls that were o popular int the 80's. There is exciting things happening around this property and I was glad to have been asked to be a part of this show. If you guys want to check out more things madballs head over to the Madballs Central Blog. Anyways I hope you guys enjoy my piece and be on the lookout for the toy in the stores, they are really awesome gross fun . In other news I just got done with a huge freelance job that had me tied up and sleepless for months but now I will buckle down and get my butt painting and working towards a gallery show sometime in the near future. Hope you all digs!!!