silly mood

i was in a silly mood and started drawing this picture of an obese rover. then i scanned it and colored it digitally. ta-da!

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substitute teaching

i’m the front desk receptionist at a k-12 school in baltimore city, and my partner is an art teacher there. daniel was out sick one day from work, so they let me substitute for his comics drawing class. it was really fun to see what they had been working on and to show them my illustrations. the rest of the class we worked on drawings. i drew this one of all the kids. as you can see, class sizes are really small.

as always, click to see a larger version.

new/old illustrations

i’ve had the raw drawings of these sitting in my room for a while. i drew them on two separate days. one day, i rode to work and it was the perfect temperature out and all the colors were so beautiful. i couldn’t help but think about how amazing fall is. so i got to work and doodled out the happy fall picture. the next day, it was raining and windy and leaves were sticking all over me. all i could think of was the impending doom of winter. boooo. so then winter came, and i hadn’t thought about these drawings because they were fall drawings and fall was over. but recently, thinking about how fun it is to use color, i decided they would be the perfect drawings to incorporate color into to and i had a lot of fun working on them. these look especially nice when viewed at a bigger size, which you can do here.

sometimes i like color

i was thinking today about how i should work with color more. i like to color digitally and sometimes i even like to paint. i used to really really like to paint back when i did traditional rendering. i’m not sure why i’m not as interested in doing that sort of art anymore. here are a couple illustrations i’ve done with color.

a 7 inch cover for the band wax & wane, put out by valiant death.

and a drawing i did in adobe illustrator of my dog, rover.

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