Heart of Darkness Color Comps

More Heart of Darkness. This week, color comps for many of the black and white thumbnails posted last week.

The Sepulchral City:


Kurtz Station:


And Kurtz's Intended's Drawing-Room:

Heart of Darkness

So I've been pretty busy lately, what with school having finally started. As a result, I haven't got much in the way of sketchbook drawings. Instead, here are some thumbnails from the project I've been working on in class, based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

More July Watercolors

More sketches of the analog variety, hanging out with friends.

Vienna Teng in San Francisco

Watercolor sketch from a concert last Thursday at the Great American Music Hall featuring Vienna Teng, whose music I very much enjoy.

Painting Studies

A couple of digital painting studies from reference. Both using Painter 9.


Portrait study from deviantART stock (yellow-stock).


Figure study from deviantART stock (tracie76stock).

Friends at the Beach

Another painting from the trip to the beach. Painted from reference in Painter 9.

Beach Portrait

I was at the beach yesterday celebrating a multitude of friends' birthdays. Here's a portrait of one of my friends squinting at me. Painted from photo reference in Painter 9.

Staring out my window

The view from outside my window. Started in Alias Sketchbook and finished in Adobe Photoshop.

Speedpaint: Amber Sleeping

Last time I did Pow-Pow while she was sleeping on Amber's bed, this time I've got Amber sleeping on my bed. Logically, the next one should be me sleeping on Pow-Pow's bed.

Speedpaint: Pow-Pow!

Speedpainting of my cat, Pow-Pow, sleeping. Painted in about half an hour, using Alias Sketchbook.

Anime Expo 2006

Back from the long holiday weekend, which I spent at the Anime Expo in Anaheim, CA. The entire time, I was mostly hanging out with friends and sketching. Here are the highlights.

Day One

Registration took something like 3 1/2 hours, and I was pretty much sketching people the entire time. Many of these people are dressed up in costumes for characters I don't recognize.










Check out those two with their arms around each other. If you look back at page one, I drew them once, way at the beginning. Then about an hour later, when the line started doubling back on itself, there they were again, still all over each other. I think they were more into each other than anyone's ever been into anything.

Day Two

We were just sitting around in the Hilton lobby when we overheard these Metal Gear Solid cosplayers ranting about not being allowed to walk around with their weapons, and I just started writing down as much of it as I could.

Day Three

Day Four

June Sketchbook Variety Pack!

It's been a while since I've posted drawings -- with all the moving, I haven't had access to a scanner until now. So here's a grab bag of sketches from June!

June 3 -- My last drawing of my old house. That's my cat Pow-Pow staring out the window from her kitty tree perch.



June 8 -- A couple of tiny landscape paintings, done with watercolor and white gouache.





June 15 -- Little figure paintings from a summer SHM life drawing session.







June 22 -- Sketches of people on BART.





June 23 -- Drawing out of my head, a dryad or some kind of forest creature.



June 25 -- Sketching from movies, 2046 and Alien.

Jimmy Rodent Video Game

Now online -- the entire Jimmy Rodent Video Game short film I promised to post:


(13.6 megs, right-click to download)

We did this entire film in one night, as a "sketchbook animation" assignment. Geoff directed and I did the animation. Just about every image in the clip is lifted from one NES game or another, with the exception of Jimmy himself. And we did all the animation, unbelievably, in Adobe ImageReady, animating everything straight ahead, frame-by-frame, as an animated gif.

Sketches from Cafe 322

Sketches from dinner tonight at Cafe 322 in Pasadena, where they had live music performed by the local musicians from Citrus College.