Slightly More Recent

As promised, here are some pieces from between college and current. I'm finally getting close to posting current stuff! I guess that means I'd better get cracking on more current stuff then!

Had fun doing this Bruce Lee sketch from a small book I had about him. I think it's the first time I'd tried to do something more rendered in a long time. It also came after a pretty long drawing drought for me.

This may seem silly, but you know when you hear things, for instance when a certain actor is going to be in a movie, but you have know idea what their character will be, and then you immediately try to figure out that character? Well, this was after hearing that Jet Li was in negotiations to be in the Matrix 2 and/or 3. I immediately thought they were going to do something on the scorched earth and I thought it would be cool if he were this wandering badass warrior. Turns out I couldn't have been further from the truth, and Jet didn't even star in the movie, but I still had fun with the idea. To bad I made his sword hand look so f'ed up.

Here's another kinda rendered pic of a wushu guy doing a front jump kick. I should finish rendering the pants.

Concept for some stupid bad guy character I was making up. I don't like it.

This is a character I should do more with. I call him "Ninjabot".

Here's a terribly stiff pic of my niece, Madison from a couple years ago. She wasn't playing soccer at the time, but rather sitting on the couch, so I captured an okay likeness of her face, but the rest isn't great.

Urahara from the manga/anime Bleach.

Coming soon: Even more recent stuff... and then maybe some surprizes.

More College

I went through some boxes and found a few more college drawings. Here they be.

I was into kungfu, snowboarding and chinese landscapes when we were given a project in my old design class to create a personal mark... so I incorporated all those things into a stupid one. It was either a strange project, or more likely, my strange interpretation of the project.

Below are pages from another strange design project. A coloring book that would supposedly teach kids about hoboes. I guess this was my crosshatching phase.







A silly Christmas card for NRS (my first design intership/job). The inside said, "Just heat and enjoy. Happy Holidays from Blah Blah Blah".

Up next: After college stuff... unless I find some more missing college stuff first.

College Drawings

Here are some drawings from college. Unfortunately, when I graduated and moved, I threw away my old life drawing class pictures, my silkscreen prints and all my paintings... so all that's left are some illustrations from design class and personal works. You'll notice there aren't many from that personal category because I was so focused on graphic design instead.



One of our first class projects. Redesign some box labels that need to read at small sizes and multiple languages.


A sketchy looking rec center logo.


My lovely wife as a super hero. Wanted her legs to look buff, but I made them and her feet too big.


Hulk v Spidey sketch. Started being heavily influenced by comic artists like Ed McGuinness and Joe Madureira.


Hulk from 1998.


Made up scene, based on Battlechasers characters.


My take on Wolverine. I like him depicted with shaggier style hair, instead of being moussed to horns like in most comics. I dropped some quick black on his hair and eyebrows for you because they looked funny without it.


Inspired by Tsui Hark's Blade (Kung fu movie, not the Snipes one). It's a remake of the One Armed Swordsman.



Some graffiti looking type for a friend's cd cover.


Book cover element.


Elements for a radio station ad.







Pages from an NRS Press Kit which previewed upcoming products. For some reason I didn't use a ruler or curve template for any of these...


Asparagus, for an little ad for Tracy's family's restaurant, Golden Star.


U of I Time Schedule Cover submission. The type sucks, but I had fun with the illustration.


Close-up of item I snuck in.

There you have it. If I find more I'll post it up. Next up: After college to more current!

Munnies on VinylPulse

(click for larger, of course)

Big news! My custom painted Munnies were chosen as one (two, actually) of 25 finalists to be displayed on vinylpulse.com! Check it out.
http://www.vinylpulse.com/2007/01/liv3rs_january_.html
There are loads of cool Munnies done by great artists there... it's a real priviledge to be included! Thanks to LIV3R for choosing mine!

High School Art

Okay! My scanner arrived, so it's now time to start posting some drawrings. I decided to start from way back... as in Freshman-Senior in highschool work. That means some of these are nearly 15 years old! Just a handful of pictures. Some (if not all) of the illustrations have major problems of course, but I wanted to post them anyway. And seeing as the paper they're on is starting to fall apart, I thought I'd digitize them for preservation. Looking back at these, I can see a glimmer of potential, but I went into graphic design instead of illustration, so now it's merely a hobby for me and one that I sadly neglected for awhile.

Let's get started. (click for larger)

Just a doodle.

Kind of a self portrait, with a propeller beanie for some reason.

Another self portrait.

Another. No, wait, this was just a doodle in math class. My friend Dave and I each drew pirates during class (his was better). As an experiment, he left his in the basket below his seat just to send it on a journey. A few weeks later, he happened to see it in some guy's folder with that guy's signature on it!

An original character of mine. All sorts of problems with the arms and hands, but in my defense I was only 16 or 17 and didn't understand construction all that well... maybe I still don't, but at least now I can tell when it looks wrong.

Funny(?) story about this one for my history class. It actually caused some controversy in my school. The intent of it was to use an old aryan iconic image and skew the perception a little to cast a negative light on it... hence the snake that represents the good in this country being crushed by the prodigal son who represents the bad. Well, an african worker at the school apparently missed the message and thought it was a pro-racist, pro-evil statement. He got really offended and if I remember correctly, they took the picture down from the little mini show it was in. Hey, nobody said censorship had to be smart.

This one also caused some controversy at school. People were up in arms wondering why this poorly drawn version of shaggy had no feet!

This one was a winning entry in a mural contest. I got to paint it on a large wall inside a youth center, where it still remains to this day. I think the gray wall was changed to brick red or bricks. Someone told me these characters seemed like two different sides of my personality. Note the shoes on the James Dean type character... recycled from my earlier 50's guy.

Look out! It's a giant buck-tooth baby! This one comes from a boring english class I think.

My, my, what a wacky mad scientist.

Winning front logo for our Senior keg t-shirt. I still have one of the shirts, and for the back I drew a large jungle keg-god surrounded by worshippers... but I don't think it's really worth digging up and taking a photo of. We'll see.

This was supposed to be an angry, asianesque sun. When I told someone it was supposed to be that, they said, "no, it's not asian looking." Upon further investigation it also seems more cranky than angry... so I guess it's a slightly miffed, pseudo-asian-wannabee sun.

This one was inspired by the movie Backdraft. If you click the image for larger, you can probably see an insane amount of cross-hatching there. Quite tedious. Some way into this one, I realized how messed up the proportions were on the shoulders (right is way off!), so I lost motivation to finish.

There you have it! A painful trip down highschool memory lane. I have many more pics, but the others I weeded out for one reason or another... if I can find a pic of that final mural and one of a big satan I made I'll post them. Also, I might try to track down two large 2nd place pieces from bigger competitions.

Up next... college!