APW Gallery

Seahorse

Here is a drawing I did for APW Gallery’s “Something Different” Show.

The anticipation was a turn on…

Star Eyes

This is one of those drawings that I’ve done a few times, and a few ways.
The original was a sketchbook page that I did pretty quickly for myself when I was about 18 or 19. I never throw old stuff away because most of my better ideas have to be recycled a few times before I get them to a place that is satisfactory.

This was the original:

This was the second round:

A photoshopped amalgam:

And finally the redrawn version:

Works In Progress

Alligator

The Boyfriend

Girl On Couch

Dear Ursula, 

I’m sorry for not posting images earlier. I’ve been swamped with work. It’s very stressful living the life of a professional intern.  Here is the process for my most recently finished piece, beginning with the line drawing and ending in photoshop.

I changed her face a few times. Her original face is revealed in the line drawing. I wasn’t satisfied until after I cut up her nose and mouth, then pasted in new eyes from a separate drawing. Here she is with early flat color…

…and here is the latest detail of her face, same face as above after new color and some added shadows.

I think I’ll eat some worms

I love tracking my progress while I work on something. Unlike Amy, who needs to fucking post already, I don’t often color digitally, or work digitally at all with the exception of the very beginning and endings of my process. At the beginning I usually gather references online, or scan them into the computer so that I can easily visualize a layout and change things around while I’m working. I like having something concrete to look at before I start drawing. It’s not how I was taught to do it in art school… I’m pretty sure most of my drawing teachers would have my head if they knew I was using photoshop to collage together an image before drawing it- although I’m not sure why. It’s not like I don’t know how to draw from life, or how to extrapolate a finished layout from a variety of elements without first collaging them together. But I enjoy the ease of doing so and being able to shift things around or replace them before I start to draw. Anyway, that whole rant aside, my point was I don’t work digitally for the most part, but I do like to scan my progress as I go along and keep a record of how a drawing changes from start to finish.

And seeing as this is supposed to be our sketch blog, *cough fucking cough* amy *hack fucking hack*
I thought I’d post this process for the latest comic over on Dear Stranger.

The finished piece is here: Go Eat Worms

Welcome to the Wicker Toilet

Amy and I spend a lot of time doodling and coming up with insane schemes. We decided we needed a place to share this artistic excrement with the world, hence, the wicker toilet has been born.
To kick it off, here are a few doodles from the unemployment file.

What exactly does a key holder do?

amy looks for work and is met with nothing but unpaid internships