Sketchables

Finished portriat

2010-05-27T16:02:00.002-04:00

Here's the finished portrait that I did for my friend.

and here's the same thing with the frame I got.

I'm back!

2010-04-22T02:34:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a LONG time. I've been lazy, I admit it... but now I'm making an effort to be productive again.

This is a study I'm working on for my friend. Her mother's birthday is coming up and she wanted to give her a portrait of her parents together.
Here's a self portrait! still gotta to add in detail to the scarf, shirt and add in the background pattern.

me and isis and gir

2010-01-29T20:19:00.002-05:00

I decided to do a self portrait with my Kitty's Isis and Gir.

An Apple a Day... drawing

2009-12-06T01:39:00.002-05:00

Here's something I'm working on right now. Its the saying "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away", but I wanted it to look like an old horror poster. Its not great, but I'm just trying to start producing work again. Hopefully I'll knock it out in illustrator this weekend.

Christmas Card

2009-11-30T21:15:00.002-05:00

This is a christmas card that I have created for my dad. I used a different textures and then colored over it.

Talking Cat / Dancing Pumpkins

2009-10-17T12:52:00.005-04:00

This is my first lip sync... sadly not a character, but it was a great opportunity to learn how to move a mouth with dialogue convincingly. I was given a cat head and I manipulated / painted the mouth positions with photoshop. :-)

Click these pumpkins to see my first animated card...

To Glory!

2009-09-26T20:29:00.002-04:00

Man, I've been really geeking out lately. I'm contemplating making this a part of a much more realized battle scene (I'll probably regret saying that).

AIGA Cleveland - The room listens to Art Chantry

2009-09-25T09:56:00.002-04:00

Link to/of the Past, colorized

2009-09-20T01:02:00.005-04:00

Blogger desaturates the JPGs quite a bit (for reasons that are beyond me), so check out the full image on my own website.

STUPID GUY!

2009-09-04T01:25:00.001-04:00

Dino's and More dino's

2009-08-31T09:36:00.002-04:00

Link to/of the Past

2009-08-30T21:26:00.004-04:00

Reading GameSpite's take on Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in their newest Quarterly got me reminiscing on the feeling I used to get from playing the game when I was a wee lad. It was colorful and adventurous, with a feeling of a little grit, like everything was eroded by sand, wind, and time.

Yes, I get weird feelings while playing games.

So getting that feeling made me want to explore creating my ideal interpretation of Link. This isn't quite there, as there's something about how it is in my head that I can't get on paper. This would also definitely need coloring to really get my idea across, but for now, I thought I'd share this sketch in the meantime.

Twi'lek Jedi

2009-08-23T14:07:00.001-04:00

Details here.

Downtown Scooter!

2009-08-09T00:53:00.002-04:00

hey hey!! so some water color and ink/ ink washes. not to sure about the Korean... it was far away and i was straining to see. i hope i didnt write anything to bad. if it dosnt say anything thats fine with me! eh, some of the angles are off but whateve.

Don't fly too close to the sun!!!!!!

2009-07-29T09:45:00.003-04:00

My work was still going with the greek theme this month. So I went with a more playful style.

Eli & Amos Circumnavigate the Globe

2009-07-13T02:57:00.003-04:00

I wrote a bit about this here, but I'll drop some technical specifics on your asses here. I'm like the anti-Duncan: he just let's the work speak for itself. :P

I rarely ever use the same process from one illustration to the next. This was done in Photoshop alone, my only brush being the hard-edged airbrush. Most shapes are on their own layers, with their textures on unique layers as well, masked by the shape layers. So... lots of layers. I wouldn't do it this way again. Vector paths are far more versatile and would have actually saved time here, and most viewers won't be able to tell that each element has its own texture.

Artemis

2009-07-05T16:01:00.003-04:00

My work has a prompt this month which the theme that greek myths. I didn't Artemis to try night lighting and to try and work more with the mesh tool with more compacted grandets.

quick sketch in Japan

2009-07-05T13:28:00.002-04:00

Hey folks! Sweet park while i was in Japan. took a few min to sketch a bridge.

Shat Happens

2009-06-04T10:34:00.004-04:00

Circumnavigate the Globe

2009-06-01T02:18:00.002-04:00

I think this is done now, though I'm hesitant to call it so. I'd like your guys' feedback before I put this (and several other things) on my own website—what do you think, anything that bugs you about this?

scenery, people, and espresso!

2009-05-27T21:59:00.002-04:00

heres some random quick sketches from the 'ol sketchbook.
ENJOY!

i had the best mocha frap at this kenya espresso i've ever had!!!

ok, the "korean dating" is an ad, they come up on everything, and i'm to lazy to crop it.

at the park

2009-05-10T02:45:00.002-04:00

Heres a kids attempt at the same thing i was doing, but it ended up turning into an evil robot! HAHAHA, i love kids!

and heres mine. i havnt drawn, or used water colors in a long while... but it was fun and i'll be doing a lot more, so soon i'll be awesome!!!

Business Cards

2009-05-04T01:39:00.003-04:00

What does anyone think? Crits, please!

watcha doin?

2009-04-12T16:49:00.000-04:00

Space

2009-04-02T00:13:00.002-04:00

Icecream Back

2009-03-25T19:49:00.001-04:00

Remeber with I posted that little storying and did all those sketches will it been a while since I worked on the because I wasn't sure how I wanted to color it in. But here the first image that I have done for it. I trying to get better at the mesh tool in illustrator. To I figure why not try it on this.

Night Music

2009-03-21T04:57:00.002-04:00

Ok, sooo I've not post anything in a LONG time. My apologies. I havn't really been painting in a while, but here's something I was working on. I'll try to finish it up this week, but here it is so far.

Ink + Figure Dump

2009-03-09T18:31:00.006-04:00

Aaaa yeah

2009-02-26T12:48:00.003-05:00

Well I was trying to do something different. Then what I normally do.

New theme piece

2009-02-23T16:18:00.001-05:00

like last month my work is giving us art themes. This month this Is V-Day good or bad.

Oil Painting (under painting) NEW

2009-02-17T22:46:00.003-05:00

Here we go again...Im trying another portrait. So far it's going ok...not sure where im at with it at this point. But I do have some plans for it. Stay tuned for updates for it.

Day 3

2009-02-16T16:09:00.002-05:00

Well day 3 has come and is now going...only one more day to go. I am seriously relearning a lot just by painting. And im starting to see like a painter once again. Feels good. One more day with this one and then i'll call it quits and start something new.
Any who...enjoy and as always comments and crits are welcome.

V-day

2009-02-13T10:06:00.001-05:00

Step two

2009-02-10T20:02:00.003-05:00

Well here's my "Day Two" work... all I have left to do is some glazing and minor touch ups.
:)

Oil Painting

2009-02-09T21:55:00.002-05:00

I've been hankering to do some oil painting again, mainly portraits. I've been drawing from the Fairburn Figure System books (which by the way are AMAZING, if you can find them) This is some dude that's featured in one of the face books. So far this is just an under-painting and im looking forward to (hopefully) finishing this tomorrow.
I'm also relearning lots by watching the Shawn Barber DVD which has some amazing tips...check it out if your able.
Well it's getting late and tomorrow's going to be a big day at work, so im gonna hit the hay soon.
Laters.

Sketchbook Fun

2009-02-07T11:33:00.002-05:00

Hey all,
Here are some recent pages from my sketchbook. I recently purchaced a Pentel pocket brush pen that Duncan showed me. This thing is fricken amazing! I love it a lot and bacicly i always have it with me now. Some of these pages are the result of me carrying it with me everywhere. Enjoy

Eli Phas Fogg and Amos Passepartout Circumnavigate the Globe!

2009-02-05T18:02:00.009-05:00

obligatory link to related post on my own website.

Three posts from me in a row?

(couldn't resist)

Eli and Amos

2009-02-02T16:51:00.002-05:00

Read about the details here.

What Does Your Music Look Like?

2009-02-02T00:47:00.005-05:00

Voice Draw Beta v3

This site works something like an etch-a-sketch using sound instead of two dials. If you have a laptop with a microphone built in, try playing some of your own music and see what you get. The song will vary pretty dramatically from a minor change in volume, so play around a bit!

"Over The Rainbow" from the "My Lovely Sam-Soon" soundtrack

"Prohibited Art" from the "Shadow of the Colossus" soundtrack

"Song For Jesse" from the "Assassination of Jesse James" soundtrack

"Space Lion" from the "Cowboy Bebop" soundtrack

Munny Fun

2009-02-01T18:06:00.002-05:00

Hey all...heres something fun i've been working on.
I've had this munny sitting on my drawing table for a few months and I finaly decided to do somthing with it.
It still has a ways to go but here's a quick snapshot of my progress on it.

2009-02-01T14:54:00.001-05:00

some old self-portraits in charcoal i really like. i've been meaning to post these since some time last year.

oz

2009-01-30T12:00:00.002-05:00

My work is start for give us a theme each month to work an illustration of our instead of have a challenge of hiding things in the illustrations in our books. After a couple months they are planning to have a gallery show with our illustrations that we have done for the themes. This month theme is Wizard of oz. This is what I have done for it.

Postal!

2009-01-28T19:36:00.002-05:00

I got bored and started to doodle on a address sticker..this is the result.
Enjoy

Hell Yeah

2009-01-21T22:28:00.003-05:00

Something I thought of last night as I was going to sleep. I didn't want to spend too long on this, so you'll have to excuse its rough simplicity. :)

sketchbook heads (UPDATED)

2009-01-19T19:53:00.002-05:00

Alright J, I didn't feel these were strong enough to share... but here you go:

These are little watercolor experiments done in my sketchbook. The top row are just out of my head and the second row are from random internet reference. These aren't really drawn because I was impatient to mess around with color. I was never very comfortable with the medium and I'm slowly figuring out what I like/don't like, such as how to blend it, layer splotches for different color qualities, using line/ink, etc.

BD Cupcake

2009-01-08T14:02:00.002-05:00

"Birthday Cupcake" 6 X 8, Oil on Board

Well actually Christmas cupcakes!!! Every Christmas we do Jello-Cake (DELICIOUS!) so this year we tried Jello-Cupcakes, they kind of worked, they tasted just as amazing but when we took them out of the pan there was a nice layer of jello!!

I decided I need to start painting hands, I'm not good at them, and you can tell by this one, at least you can tell its a hand now. At one point it looked like a weird blob attacking the cupcake! I need to put more color in the skin tones too.

NEXT PAINTiNG!!!

Cowgirl

2009-01-03T16:11:00.002-05:00

"Cowgirl" 9 X 12, Oil on Board

My friend Kim took this awesome picture of another friend Corrine, and it looked really fun, so after asking permission of course I painted it! To see the picture and more of Kim's work check out her website: http://411photos.zenfolio.com/

Me

2008-12-15T20:31:00.001-05:00

Somthing Different!

2008-12-13T14:42:00.002-05:00

I have been hankering to do some oil paintings lately. Here is the first one of a hopeful many. Man I really miss painting like this.
The painting is from a tattoo magazine i have...the colors may be a bit off...once the painting dries i'll scan it in and hopfully the colors will be better. OOh I painted this on a linen board...i rather enjoyed this...i may have to pick some more up.
Let me know what you guys think.

From Internet Ref

2008-12-07T21:19:00.000-05:00

I haven't touched watercolor in so long... These were a lot of fun to do.

2008-12-06T20:12:00.001-05:00

My dad asked me to design a christmad card for him to send out to people. This is want I did.

A Break In The Case

2008-12-05T19:28:00.004-05:00

After looking at some stuff of Lou Romano's, I was inspired to take the detective illustration in a more... traditional (?) approach. So here it is.

And here's the original, more saturated version, since I couldn't decide what direction I wanted to take it.

Co-Workers

2008-12-03T14:39:00.001-05:00

Here's a painting i did of a coworker, Jason should remember him. I've been doing a painting like this every day the past few days and I think im starting to get a feel of the medium and technique. I know I'm having a blast doing them. Ther'll be more later on this week...if I can keep up this crazy work schedule.

Random Guy, P.I.

2008-11-29T21:38:00.003-05:00

Character design for the forthcoming detective illustration I mentioned in the previous post.

Just a little something

2008-11-27T02:07:00.004-05:00

My first post from (and first drawing scanned in on) my shiny new computer! Yay!

A while back I asked Jeremy for an idea of something to draw. He suggested something along the lines of merpeople and Atlantis; while I didn't make a full illustration on that idea at least I finally did something with it. I may or may not do a color version, but I'm working on a film-noir detective movie-inspired illustration right now that will probably take precedence over this, so who knows.

Recent Drawings

2008-11-21T09:37:00.003-05:00

Me AGAIN!

2008-11-15T11:46:00.002-05:00

Well now, this is crazy for me. Two posts in one week!...I gotta keep this up.
This cowpoke is currently making his home in my sketchbook. I'm happy to say that he is very content existing there but is hankering to get out and into some illustrations. Lately i've been thinking of making a children's book and the urge has been somthin fierce. I think Im going to be doing a cowboy related story...we'll see.

About this piece, I decided to try a different approach to my painting technique. I've been watching some tutorial videos on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB2DQhbszFI Matt Bush has some great stuff. I've learned quite a bit just in this piece alone. I just have to get my airbrush up and running again.

Well I gotta run now...and get an oil change and run some errands.

Hope all is going well with y'all
J

Cowboy

2008-11-14T07:18:00.001-05:00

Hey all, thought I'd do a quick post this morning just before I start working. I am working on new ideas and working on getting them done. Currently they are building up in my head, I'm going to be working on some this weekend.

Here is a piece that i did just to make sure that I still knew how to "paint". I have relearned a lot and have a lot of ideas on how to get a better image in the end.

Orange you glad I didn't say Bannana again!

2008-11-12T21:21:00.002-05:00

Ok, so I didn't get a scanner but I learned how to take pictures! Yeay Jeremy! and yes Josh, I would totally get a fancy scanner to take pics . . . :P

Anyways, heres an Orange and the Gourds from the last post, but should be way better quality. Enjoy!

"Orange" 8 X 10, Oil on Canvas Board

"Gourds" 8 X 10, Oil on Canvas Board

Gourds

2008-11-02T14:22:00.003-05:00

Sorry about the bad pic. Aparently I suck at taking pictures of my work. Once I get a scanner I'll get better pics.

"Gourds" 8 X 10, Oil on Canvas Board

The captain is clearly insane...

2008-10-31T20:28:00.001-04:00

This is for Jeremy and Lynda. :-)

faire

2008-10-30T09:28:00.003-04:00

This is a demo i had to do for work. Different people where a sign different topics and had to do a presentation on that topic. I was told to do a demo in Illustrator. So I came up with this image for the demo plus I wanted to do an artwork that has nothing to do with work.

Website that you can't really read.

2008-10-22T12:42:00.002-04:00

http://www.posemaniacs.com/tools/handviewer/

http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/

This are a links of a website with different pose on it which you can move around at different angle. One of the people at work found it and sent it to every one and think it was interesting.

FLorida Tomatoes Contest

2008-10-15T23:18:00.003-04:00

Today was the deadline to get in the Florida Tomatoes Painting. Here was my submission:

"Florida Tomatoes" 20 x 24, Oil on Canvas

Image that not going to be used

2008-10-08T18:20:00.003-04:00

I figure that since this image is not going to be used for this pain of an author book I can share it with you. Usually we just send character samples but when a book doesn't have a character we create a style for the book.

I think this author is crazy and there are many reason why I think this. In this seen it talks about god creative animals birds and bees, mountains and ocean. Hint thats why I put them in there. But is her mind this does not capture "GOD AWESOMENESS"!!!!! When ever I ask question she always say doesn't capture god awesomeness what don't you like a about the mountain or the tree. She also thought it look too preschool which she whats to target them but not really she what to target adults and have photo's and buy them off the internet. We have a month to work on three book so yeah, photo realism doesn't work well for us. I think she lazy too because I asked her to send me a photo's of what she was thinking and she send me a link the google images then there all she did was type in God Awesomeness and give you different images to look at. There where people rooms some landscapes but not many and not really had anything to do with want was writing on that page and she want us to go throw them and pick out want we liked. I just thinking to my self how is this surpost to help me get a better understanding of what you are looking for. I could keep going on and on but I put a good amount of time on the image and will like to share it so the image doesn't go to waste.

Strut!

2008-10-06T18:59:00.005-04:00

I enjoy drawing this fellow. He's very helpful in my learning to draw in this particular way, as far as making the character very emotive and fluid. I'll be making a bit more effort in trying to be mindful of his body's mass, how each part is shaped and where it is in relation to the rest of his body. I'm picking up some great little tricks and ideas from the Disney books I've been poring over. Yay!

The fat man again

2008-10-06T17:17:00.004-04:00

I like to think he looks like Ben Franklin. He isn't Ben Franklin, just looks like him.

I'm shooting for a bit more deformation with his body mass swelling up from his gut to his chest due to his outrage. I'm still working on posing; I'm a terrible actor, so I need to look at people who can emote through body language better than I can.

Wine Glass

2008-10-03T13:57:00.000-04:00

"Wine Glass" 9 X 12, Oil on Canvas

Tomatos

2008-10-01T20:30:00.000-04:00

"Tomatos" 9 X 12, Oil on Canvas

For Long Posts

2008-10-01T19:23:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone! I'm still working out the code, its not really right but it kinda works, but if you have a ridiculously long post here's some instructions on how to keep it reasonable.

Go about you post as usual but for the part that will be hidden, put this code around it:

So it will look like this:

Here is the begining of my post, please click on the title. Or say what ever you want to here. Then you put in that code and what ever is written here will be hidden. You'll have to click the title of the entry to see it. Then you end it up with this code.

Then you publish your post! Easy-peasy! If you have any questions comment or email me. jeremyschramm@hotmail.com

Again I'll be working on the correct code but for now this is it!

Thank you!

Page layout

2008-10-01T00:13:00.002-04:00

I felt like I need more work to show I can do layout so... here ya go. I'm pretty happy with it, I only have a couple issues with it but I'll keep those to myself and see if anyone else has the same problems.

Random Post

2008-09-29T20:24:00.009-04:00

Hello, This is Jeremy. Because this post is so long I set it up where you need to click the post title to see the post. So please CLICK THE POST TITLE "Random Post". Thank you.

It toke a while But here it is.

2008-09-29T20:09:00.012-04:00

Hello, This is Jeremy. Because this post is so long I set it up where you need to click the post title to see the post. So please CLICK THE POST TITLE "It toke a while But here it is.". Thank you.

Papa Herb’s ice cream parlor is a small quiet place with the kindest ice cream man there is.

One day a little boy came in with a coupon, which said, “get one free make your own ice Sunday.” The little boy handed Papa Herb the coupon and he said to the little boy ”well, well, well, aren’t you a lucky little boy.” You get to have what ever your little heart desires on your ice cream Sunday.

The little boy thought for a little bit and then told Papa Herb, “ I want the biggest ice cream Sunday you can make me!” Papa Herb started to laugh.

“Are you sure you can eat such a big treat?” asked Papa Herb, as he thought to himself how big could this Sunday really be?

“Oh yes sir I am really. So hungry in fact I can eat a hole mountain of ice cream!” Replayed the little boy. For kick and giggles Papa Herb got his biggest ice cream Sunday bowl he has.

“Are you ready to make your Sunday?” asked Papa Herd to the little boy. The little boy nodded his head and with a great big smile on his face he yelled, “ Yes, Sir!”

“Ok then let begin,” said Papa Herb.

“I want Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla ice cream, also some Mint Chocolate Chip, Peppermint Stick, Rocky Road, Butter Pecan and Peanut Brittle. Some Peach, Blackberry, Moose Track and Sherbet ice cream,” the little boy said enthusiastically as Papa Herb ran around all over the ice cream parlor trying to keep up with the little boys demands.

I want hot fudge, hot caramel, butterscotch. Strawberry, and pineapple toppings as the boy toke a big breath before he continued. Sprinkles, snowcaps, gummy bears and gum drops, licorice and chocolate chips and also don’t forget whipped cream and five cherries if you please.

Papa Herb was tired exhausted from all of the running around but finally finished the biggest Sunday in town. The Sunday was so big that Papa Herb asked for help to carry it to the table so the little boy could sit down.

Papa Herb went back to his counter as he watched the little boy to see if he could finish this creation. The little boy licked his lips and took a scoop full of ice cream from the very top, in which was his very first bit.

All of a the sudden some thing odd just happened the little boy got up from the table where he was sitting. Papa Herb was so confused. Did he forget an ice cream or a topping? He was so sure that is put five cherry on top what could it be?

As the little boy got to the counter Papa Herb started to panic.” Excuse me sir, Can I please have a box, I am stuffed?”

The Last page is just some ruff drawling of spots that I was thinking of using for the text page.

Hello

2008-09-27T14:29:00.002-04:00

It's been awhile since i've posted...so here's something for fun.
I should be posting stuff in the near future. Currently im attending a Dr. Skechys anti artschool drawing club. Infact if you look here http://drsketchycleveland.squarespace.com/ in the image with the model if you look at the center mirror that is non other than yours truly. I'll try to scan the stuff i've done there and post later...but for now I'll leave y'all with this.

Florida Tomato Contest

2008-09-25T17:45:00.003-04:00

I just got an email back, they said that its ok if you dont live in one of those areas, but you have to be prepared to be in one of those cities for a day or two if you win.

So if any one can participate here's the website again:

http://www.floridatomatoart.com/index.html

Wine Bottle

2008-09-25T15:25:00.001-04:00

"Wine Bottle" 8 X 10, Oil on Canvas

Art Contest

2008-09-23T17:59:00.002-04:00

Here's an art contest I found. Tomato paintings!! Well, just one painting, Tomato Painting!!! Check out the website for rules and guidelines. I'm a bit confused as to the location thing.

http://www.floridatomatoart.com/index.html

Animation-style characters

2008-09-22T15:16:00.005-04:00

Quite recently I've been looking at the work of the nine old men from old Disney, and while I definitely respected their work before, I never knew before how many levels this stuff is working on. It's completely amazing how well thought-out it is. I'm already starting to disdain flat graphic stuff a little bit for not having nearly as much thought behind it's shape construction and direction. Huge, HUGE thanks to Kevin for really educating me on this.

I'm much happier with the short guy than the tall guy. I drew this last night but already I can see the tall guy needs work. His pose could be better constructed and a bit more energized, and his face is too firm, not quite animated enough - needs more squash and stretch going on. A decent start though, yes?

2008-09-19T15:43:00.001-04:00

Drawn from Mark Simon's facial expression reference book.

I'll eat your bones

2008-09-18T20:37:00.005-04:00

It's a troll-type thing. That's a stylized snake tattoo on his gut. He probably took that crown from some noble he ate years ago.

New Web Design

2008-09-15T21:54:00.001-04:00

Hey all! I'm working on this new design. I still have a few things to do. One of those things is the logo, I'm going to add in some baroque piping/stone relief looking stuff around it. Check it out.

www.jeremyschramm.com

It's Hard Being Green

2008-09-12T08:54:00.000-04:00

"It's Hard Being Green" 8 X 8, Oil on Canvas

first steps

2008-09-10T19:03:00.004-04:00

This is a rough for Gary Barker. Originally supposed to be more like a hellboy type universe creature/character. but doing that kind of concept art to me it too lame (ok, really i don't mean lame) and too done, and quite simply too easy sometimes to make things look ugly and demonic. Soooo i went in the other direction a little, he likes it so far. I had a dream once where i was diving out of heaven, to bring peace to a really dark situation, and decided to use that for this assignment

Apple Slice

2008-09-09T03:37:00.001-04:00

"Apple Slice" 8 X 10, Oil on Canvas

Vampire Protection

2008-09-06T18:07:00.002-04:00

"Vampire Protection" 8 X 8, Oil on Canvas

HAHAHA I love my name for this one! I hate naming things by the way, so I don't really take it seriously or I just name it what it is.

Any whoo, here's some garlic! I'll be starting my daily paintings tomorrow, I've set up shop in my sisters walk-in closet! Its freaking huge!! I'll take some pictures and put them up.

DOOM!

2008-09-06T05:40:00.002-04:00

I had a dream back in like, April, that actually formed a cohesive story and was chock full of things that I adore. I got super-excited and wanted to do all this cool stuff with it, but it fizzled. That happens with a lot of my personal projects, like the story of the little girl (most of you probably know about that one). I guess it's hard to do work when I'm the only person I need to appease? Anyway, here's the only drawing I've gotten out of it so far: the castle where pretty much everything occurs.

And the post is labeled DOOM because we're going off the grid over here. Moving to a new apartment (mailing address is the same since it's a box) and we have to get the internet turned off here and turned on there. The internet is going in Joachim's name, so for anyone who knows him they shouldn't be surprised to hear it's already turning out to be a huge cluster****. Who knows how long we won't have internet, so if you got something to say, call me!

Bitten

2008-09-05T11:01:00.002-04:00

"Bitten" 9 X 12, Oil on Canvas

This one here, well I'm not really sure of the sequence of these. If it came after or before my last post "Sprinkles". But one or the other was a in response to the other. "Sprinkles" wasn't nearly as much paint and texture as this one. Experimentation!

More patterns!

2008-09-05T04:44:00.003-04:00

The first one shouldn't really count since it's just stripes. But I put in the effort to make it (took longer than I thought...) so by Jove I'm including it here.

A lot of this is looking at other patterns. The whole "making patterns from scratch" thing is pretty new to me so I gotta get inspiration elsewhere. I guess that's the creative process? *shrug*

Repeatable pattern!

2008-09-04T22:16:00.005-04:00

Since there's been a revival and everyone else is getting in on the act, I want to be cool too, so I'm posting. I've been getting into graphic design stuff lately, so here's a repeatable pattern.

You could say it's based on the background of the new (and beautiful!) sketchables, but.. it's really not. It IS based on a pattern I found, though I had to make it my own since the image was so dang small I couldn't really make it out - which is fine by me. Makes it more original I guess. I'll probably do some more of these cuz it was relatively easy, and pretty fun.

Sprinkles

2008-09-04T11:53:00.003-04:00

"Sprinkles" 8 X 8, Oil on Canvas

Hey all!! Here is a painting from a week or two ago, I can't remember. All I know is I've moved since then. I have a bunch more from my week of painting in Sarasota but I've decided to post one at a time until I get my paints set up. I think This one is my least favorite from the bunch, the background is just to plain to me, especially the plain that the cupcake is sitting on, it needs more texture and change of color.

My latest

2008-08-29T23:56:00.001-04:00

Hopefully the beginning of an onslaught of work to be able to post/sell/hang up on the wall

Iris in Salisbury - Acrylic

I am ... BATMAN

2008-08-24T20:33:00.005-04:00

i know its not a drawing, but BATMAN!!!

character Design for ice cream book

2008-08-16T23:28:00.002-04:00

Here are the two character in the story I wrote. What do you think? I want to keep it fun and whimsical.

2008-08-16T17:20:00.000-04:00

For kicks and giggles.

2008-08-15T11:43:00.002-04:00

Ok Well I be busy and have draw anything on my own in a really long time been mostly drawing for other people. But I want to start again. For kick and giggles I wrote a little story that I came up with one day while I was working. I get a lot of random ideas in my head and for once when I got house and after unpacking a little I wrote a story.

Called "Papa Herb’s Ice Cream Parlor." I going to illustrate it for fun!!!! Please let me know what you think.

Papa Herb’s ice cream parlor is a small quiet place with the kindest ice cream man there is.

One day a little boy came in with a coupon, which said, “get one free make your own ice Sunday.” The little boy handed Papa Herb the coupon and he said to the little boy ”well, well, well, aren’t you a lucky little boy.” You get to have what ever your little heart desires on your ice cream Sunday.

The little boy thought for a little bit and then told Papa Herb, “ I want the biggest ice cream Sunday you can make me!” Papa Herb started to laugh. He thought to himself how big could this Sunday really be? For kick and giggles Papa Herb got his biggest ice cream Sunday bowl he had.

“Are you ready to make your Sunday?” asked Papa Herd to the little boy. The little boy nodded his head and with a great big smile on his face he yelled, “ Yes, Sir!”

“Ok then let begin” said Papa Herb.

“I want Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla ice cream, also some Mint Chocolate Chip, Peppermint Stick, Rocky Road, Butter Pecan and Peanut Brittle. Some Peach, Blackberry, Moose Track and Sherbet ice cream,” the little boy said enthusiastically as Papa Herb ran around all over the ice cream parlor trying to keep up with the little boys demands.

I want hot fudge, hot caramel, butterscotch. Strawberry, and pineapple toppings as the boy toke a big breath before he continued. Sprinkles, snowcaps, gummy bears and gum drops, licorice and chocolate chips and also don’t forget whipped cream and five cherries if you please.

Papa Herb was tired exhausted from all of the running around but finally finished the biggest Sunday in town. The Sunday was so big that Papa Herb asked for help to carriy it to the table so the little boy could sit down.

Papa Herb went back to his counter as he watched the little boy to see if he could finish this creation. The little boy licked his lips and took a scoop full of ice cream from the very top, in which was his very first bit.

All of a the sudden some thing odd just happened the little boy got up from the table where he was sitting. Papa Herb was so confused. Did he forget an ice cream or a topping? He was so sure that is put five cherry on top what could it be?

As the little boy got to the counter Papa Herb started to panic.” Excuse me sir, Can I please have a box, I am stuffed?”

New paintings

2008-08-12T18:15:00.005-04:00

Ok so I'm going to try and paint everyday, so I'm going to paint small paintings of fruits, vegtables, wine bottles, cupcakes, so on and so forth. hopfully one a day... we'll see!

This first one was done a little while ago but still recent. Vincent says they look like they are on trial... a cupcake trial!

This one was very recent, just some kiwi's. Duncan already posted it, but I figured I would as well. Thanks D! Gotta get back into painting a lot so I can get good and start selling work.

2008-08-12T13:36:00.001-04:00

2008-08-08T13:49:00.000-04:00

New Theme

2008-07-29T22:06:00.002-04:00

Wow, Sketchables is alive?

Here's a new theme inspired by the new movie "Dark Knight". BATMAN.

I'll be working on the blog a bit, making it look nice, and once August comes around (just around the river bend) I'll be posting a lot more.

Painting @ the house

2008-07-27T21:02:00.006-04:00

Jeremy and I are living together again for a month and we decided to re-arrange the house for producing as much art as we can before we move out.