Tonight I tried to draw another screenshot from a movie.  This one is from “Alien”.  It started out fine enough but as I began to shade it with darker pencils, I had trouble creating a smooth gradations.  I kept trying to fix it by moving on to darker pencils but eventually I ruined it.  As […]

This evening it took me a while to figure out what to draw.  Eventually, I found my way to the super neat gif tumblr “If We Don’t, Remember Me”.  That’s where I found this screenshot from a film called “Mr Hulot’s Holiday”.    

This evening I found a photo from Apocalypse Now and drew a small portion of it.  I started this exercise as a 3 minute drawing attempt but then decided to spend more time on it afterwards.    

A nice mellow monday back to work.  I should have posted this one and all the Big Sur drawings this evening.  Instead I decided to just keep shading this guy and not open the laptop.    

Wednesday through Saturday of last week we spent camping in Big Sur.  I’ve never been there but I had a great time.  It was exactly what the doctor ordered.  It was interesting to have gone from one of the busiest weeks ever to suddenly laying in a tent with nothing to do except for swim […]

Today, tuesday the 18th.  Spent the day hanging with my daughter and then cleaning the house up for our trip tomorrow.  Early tomorrow morning the family and I head up to Big Sur for a weekend of camping.  I most likely won’t be posting my drawings for the rest of the week until Sunday evening. […]

Got a new sketch book today.  I spent the day running errands and collecting stuff together for camping.  I didn’t start drawing anything until it was much too late in the evening.  My eyes were barely staying open while I drew these.  You can tell my heart wasn’t in it.  Just fulfilling a quota this […]

Fathers Day!  Another beautiful day!  Woke up early in the morning in a tent in the backyard with my daughter.  I had a golfing date with my dad.  It was a special occasion because my dad absolutely loves golf and this was really the first time I’ve ever played with him.  It was a lot […]

First day of vacation!  It was a beautiful day off.  I picked up some camping supplies for Big Sur, including a tent.  Friends came over to discuss the the trip.  I built the tent in the backyard and Junebug and I camped out over night in it.  I doodled these guys over beers with friends. […]

Well, I’ve done it again.  I’ve let the drawings build up again and waited a week or so to post.  This last week was unprecedentedly  busy for me.  Three sizzle pieces that I have been working on for the past few months now all delivered on the same day, last thursday.  I perhaps got a total […]

I practiced my shading tonight.  I focussed on my stroke and tried to keep it tapered and consistent.  I’m pretty happy with the results.  Possibly some of the best shading I’ve done yet.    

This drawing is a recollection of an image I once saw hanging on the walls at Pixar.  It is unfinished at the moment because I drew it with the urge to practice soft shading.  At this point it is ready for the shading to begin.

My buddy Jared helped me a ton today figuring out how to customize this website.  You need to check out his site, uprlip.com.  He is doing a photo-series a day this year and his photography is absolutely beautiful!  This drawing is based on his most recent post, Day 155 Not Now Not Never.  My drawing […]

Monday.  Today.  Drawing actually drawn and posted on the same day!  Wow, I’m so proud of myself.  Anyways, turned out to be a pretty nice monday.  Attended a retirement party for one of my clients.  A great man and an influence on my editing career.  He was a great supporter of me and he has […]

Saturday night I had a good conversation with my friend Wendy about drawing.  I made mention of seeing those kinds of beautiful graphite drawings where the artist so delicately renders the shading that the image seems to glow.  This drawing certainly doesn’t but  I decided to draw this little shady box sunday afternoon while hanging […]

This was drawn late in the evening on Saturday the 1st.  The same day that I posted my long “catch-up” post on the previous page.  I spent a good portion of the day scanning and preparing all the pictures from the past but left only the last part of the day for my actual drawing […]

It’s been a while since I have posted!  Whew! I am happy to say that I have done a bit of drawing each and every day since but I have let the posting duties completely fall by the wayside.  And I’ve waited so long that the act of posting has snowballed into a much larger […]