Ancient Secrets

This doodle reminds me a little of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Ancient cultures really fascinate me, so there's probably some inspiration living in my brain somewhere. Also, I never can decide if I should color these things or not. Maybe I'll experiment with a color version of this on.

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Three Lines Equal Triangle

A triangle doodle today. So not square.

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This Camera Won't Steal Your Soul

This illustration is an update of a post from the previous incarnation of this blog. I have a stockpile of things I really like from my old website that I plan to post up here now and then.

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What's With The Blank Stare?

Today I finished off my most recent sketchbook with a self-portrait. The eyes are a bit off and the whole thing turned out more serious than the photo I referenced, but I still like it.

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He Likes You

This guy is a bit of a pinhead, but he's a nice pinhead.

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Abstract #1

The first in a series. One line, many turns.  

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The Ghouls are Approaching

A little half-tone pattern, a bit of paper texture, and some vibrant colors helped bring this ghoulishly sketchy illustration to life.

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A Bundle of Tulips

I drew this bundle of tulips to give to my sister as a gift for her birthday.

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Have A Lick Of This

One more submission I did for a recent Minted.com challenge.

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I Could Use Some Cake

I recently decided to try my hand at submitting to some design challenges on Minted.com. I've participated in a few in the past, even won a couple editors picks, but I'd like to do it more often. If I'm lucky, maybe I can't build up some residual income. I'll definitely give myself a bit more time to refine my submissions next time, but it's a start.

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In Space

Another colored pencil illustration. I think it might be cool make a space shooter video game with hand-drawn illustrations, so I thought I'd experiment with drawing a few spaceships. Once I get a few more down, I think I'll make a sample animation of what a game in this style might look like. Stay tuned.

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Buggin' Out

I downloaded a cool app/game on the old iPhone called Jazza's Arty Games. Basically, it gives you a variety of suggestions to inspire your artistic creativity. There are a number of different categories that the suggestions come in. This particular illustration was inspired by a suggestion of three specific colored pencils to use create a drawing.

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Foxy

This weekend, I bought some cheap Crayola markers and colored pencils to add to my creative toolbox. I've been leaning more toward digital techniques as of late, and I've been wanting to experiment with different mediums and do a bit more work by hand. While exploring, I figured I'd stick with bargain level supplies, so I bought fifty different colored markers and fifty different colored pencils for under $10. I've already enjoyed working on a few trial projects and will be posting some stuff up here, starting with this marker sketch of a fox:

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Geometric Color

Another experiment with basic shapes. This time I decided to add some color.

Happy Halloween

My dad asked me to draw on a couple Halloween gift bags he was planning to a few kiddies in the neighborhood. 

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Wakey, Wakey

I decided to do something Halloween themed today. Usually, I start with a hand-drawn image which gets touched up in photoshop, then imported into illustrator for some live tracing and coloring. This time, I skipped the Illustrator part and just did the coloring in photoshop. This allowed me to retain a bit more detail in the image.

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Coffee Fuel

Working at Proper Cup Coffee Shop this afternoon. Drew a quick sketch of my french press in between job searching.

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A Little Square

Freeing the brain today by doing a little doodling. I just started with one line on a blank page and decided to fill the whole thing with squares.

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Visualizing Some Moola

I watched The Secret today. Figured I should put some of the concepts into practice and see what happens. Starting by visualizing a bunch of money coming my way. Couldn't hurt. ;)

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A Bum and His Dog

For some reason, I was inspired to draw a quick sketch of a bum wearing a garbage bag. Once I got going, I realized he needed a dog companion. Both of their names are Butch.

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