Sketchbook

Tim Burton

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:57:00 +0000

So, in drawing these silly Edward Scissorhand drawings, I started thinking of a portrait idea for Tim Burton as an Edward Scissorhands character. Not sure why, but it sounds fun and this page was something I did while on lunch break at work. I think I have some fun ideas going and hope to get a more solid idea soon. Tim Burton kind of looks like Alice Cooper at the moment, so I will need to work on that :P.

Lunch Break

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:54:00 +0000

Didn't feel like eating lunch today so I drew Edward again. I totally messed up his face and he looks like a 65 year old Pauly Shore doing Cos Play. Obviously I couldn't erase since it was all in pen, but it was fun to draw anyway. I am thinking I will do more scissorhands drawings. Don't know why, but I want to keep drawing him...or variations of him.

ScissorHands

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:36:00 +0000

For some reason I have been thinking about Edward Scissorhands and have been wanting to draw him. I did this quick sketch in a few minutes tonight to get it out of my system, but it didn't really leave yet. I couldn't remember how his outfit was or how his hands were so now I have pictures saved on my computer ready for me to do something more with them. Not sure what I will make but this is kind of a start of something I think.

Old Dude

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:32:00 +0000

Hanging out at Starbucks at Mall of America waiting for some people from School Girls and Mobile Suits. Started drawing this old dude with my brush and it turned out kind of cool I think.

Sunday Life Sketching

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:23:00 +0000

Went to my school and hopped in on the Figure Drawing Co-Op. Wasn't too successful, but here are a couple of decent drawings.

Few sketches before bed

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:27:00 +0000

Haven't had time to post lately so here are a couple I did the other day.

Brush sketches

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:24:00 +0000

Felt it was time to bring out my favorite sketching brush again. Kept forgetting to put it in my pocket before going to work, but I finally remembered. Man, am I out of practice!

Some sketches

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:03:00 +0000

The other night I felt like drawing and started drawing some people from this clothing website.

Landscape Sketch

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:10:00 +0000

Just felt like sketching a quick landscape and since it was my Grandpa's birthday last week, I decided to send it to him.

Pride

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:13:00 +0000

Today was the Gay Pride Parade and my wife and I went to support our friends. To be honest, I hate parades so I took my sketchbook with to draw people who were watching the parade. It was actually kind of cold today which is unusual. The past couple weeks have been muggy and hot, but I think the rain we had on Saturday cooled everything down. Or maybe a cold front from the north or something...anyway, here are some drawings I did.

Spy House

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:50:00 +0000

I seem to like drawing at this coffee shop near the college I graduated from. The place is called Spy House and it has a nice atmosphere, great music and interesting characters that show up since it's in the city. Anyway, here are some sketches from a recent visit.

Sunday Sketching

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:13:00 +0000

When I draw this way, I always think about what my teachers would be saying to me if they saw this. I know my drawing teachers would be upset for lack of structure and composition, but my illustration teachers might like it due to the imperfections and the way the mistakes in the line work can give character to the people I am drawing. Sometimes I totally screw up and get the proportions way off, but sometimes it looks believable and it starts to work for me. I need to work on distorting reality more because I am always struggling to make things look real, but that's a fight I can't win...nor would want to anymore. Drawing imperfections and exaggerations is more fun...now I just need to get better at it.

Shoes

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:31:00 +0000

Went to a coffee shop the other day and was listening to some strange conversations. I wanted to draw these people more in depth, but they were literally right in front of me and I would have gotten caught. I had my hat on so I could hide just a bit, but was only able to draw this guys shoes. The text says "He's been living in a fireplace or something, nobody knows who he is." I have no idea what that means.

Hair

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:03:00 +0000

Started out from drawing a random lines and expanded into this profile with crazy hair.

old guy

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:53:00 +0000

My new scanner has just arrived so now I will be actually posting some drawings. I started doing a different type of sketching lately and have been liking the results that have been coming out. It comes out a bit looser...for the most part.

Tom Waits illustration

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:45:00 +0000

I am a big fan of Tom Waits work and the chance came for me to be able to use him as a subject for an assignment. I enjoy how innovative and unique his music is and I tried to capture some of that mystery in my drawing of him. I think I want to go back into it and put some more color in the background. That was one of the criticisms I've had so far and I think it is a good suggestion.

Total Sadness

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:21:00 +0000

Ok, so we did this project where we had to go to wefeelfine.org and find a quote from a blog and illustrate it. I ended up finding one about this guy who is having a really bad time with his wife. He still loves her and everything, but it sounded like she wasn't in love with him anymore. The blog he wrote was pretty intense and sad, so I thought I would try and capture that emotion.

This was also an experiment in mixing media, like pen and ink and acrylic.

First gouache attempt

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:17:00 +0000

This is kind an older piece, but was an experiment with gouache. Not much of a concept behind it, just a portrait basically. Actually, I think that the concept had to deal with floating.

Lost

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:46:00 +0000

Just thought I would post a new image I did the other day. It's called Lost :).

Don't draw on your sister

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:33:00 +0000

I am attempting to paint again. I have been interested in learning after seeing what James Jean can do with acrylic. I am still new at it, but I think I am starting to get a bit more used to it. I still don't know how to make those really smooth transitions like I see Jeff Soto do or James Jean. Their paintings look like they were done in oils even though they were done in acrylics. Maybe they mix retarder or some sort of medium with their paint.

Map...sort of

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:42:00 +0000

I went to the Science Museum of Minnesota for a project and I had to highlight certain information I felt important and put it on a limited space. I didn't realize how hard it was going to be trying to get everything I wanted on there. A bunch of stuff still didn't make it, but I hope there is enough cool stuff there for people to see and say, "hey, that looks cool, I want to see that!"

Heaven's Gate

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:21:00 +0000

Everyone remembers the crazy incident that happened back in, '97 I believe where that cult all comitted suicide when that commet arrived. I wanted to represent them differently than I have seen before, so I decided to use symbols or items related to the group rather than that Applewhite guy's crazy face.

UFO

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:47:00 +0000

Technology taking over the world :)

My First Job

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:00:00 +0000

Ok, so this isn't actually my first job. I wrote an editorial about the government and handed it to someone else and she wrote an editorial about her first job, which was working at Teddy Bear DayCare. This was the image I came up with after reading her story :).

Mt Rushmore

noreply@blogger.com (Ghost) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:43:00 +0000

This is from my trip to South Dakota this past weekend. Had to see the four faces of course. I didn't get the depth in this drawin that I wanted so I am not too happy with it, but I kind of like the faces. On the bottom is supposed to be the tiny barbershop quartet that performed there the day I was drawing.