Sketches

Photo from Memory

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I drew this from memory of a photo Carrie sent to me recently. Used Zen Brush on iPad.


Inspired by Hildafolk

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Received Luke Pearson’s Hildafolk. I love the style and colors.


Three Girls

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Messing around with warm gray Prismacolor markers  


At the Bar

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From my sketchbook: Stray Bar, Bernal Heights


SF Symphony Davies Hall Piano

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Sketch of the piano at SF Symphony


From my sketchbook

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Furry Purple Monster

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Expanding my Illustrator skills through a furry monster tutorial. Of course, the nice thing about Illustrator versus pencil is it’s easy to duplicate your work and make another furry friend.


Self Portrait

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This is a self portrait I did while taking a drawing course at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. I used graphite and a cotton swab. Not quite accurate, but some part of me probably looks like this at times.


Zen Brush Sketches

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Any Empire Sketches

Any Empire - Cover Sketch

After reading Any Empire, I was inspired by the style of the artwork. I copied a few images to better understand it. To make it more interesting, I drew them in my Walls Notebook.  


Post-it Sketches

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Sketches while waiting for dinner.  


Octopus, Trees, and Owl

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I was looking for some vector tutorials for Illustrator backgrounds that I might use for comics when I stumbled upon 40+ Cartoon Character Illustration Tutorials. I’ve been doing a lot of drawing the past few years and these helped me realize I could also draw with Illustrator. Duh. I followed the Create a super-happy octopus character tutorial fairly [...]