More Watercolors

When I find myself working too much on the computer I have to sometimes step away and just paint. Watercolor is the medium I've chose to master and I'll be learning how to overcome this challenging media for the rest of my days. Some water colors come out great and others not so much, this piece was painted a few times before I felt comfortable with the painting. As I came to a finish I knew I had a painting to be proud of while learning new things and accepting the mistakes. Here's to never being perfect but working like you can achieve perfection!

Monster Challenge

It's been quite some time since I've contributed to Sketch_Dailies so when I saw there challenge for monster I thought it was time to make a come back! Here's the end result, in this case the monster replaces the horse for our gallant hero!

It's Fall Y'all!

Daily sketch: Celebrating the first day of Fall with a couple of Peanuts! Charlie Brown is always a great reminder of this time of year, thanks to the Great Pumpkin and Thanksgiving television specials. These shows allow me to fantasize that I live in a state of seasonal change. The painted backgrounds really define the mood of the season for me, they truly reflect the weather changing with just the color of the sky. One day I hope to live in a state where fall is felt and lingers for a while.

I'm going to get you!

A playful take on one of my favorite Fairy Tales!

DON'T FALL!

Sometimes when I'm talking with my son we come up with captions or catch phrases and I'll turn them into a drawing. After drawing my mountain climbing ninja I asked my son for a caption, "Don't Fall!!" he yelled out. Works for me! My son is my to go to guy when it comes to ideas, he's smarter than the average bear!

New Sketch Dailies and more!

Here's a few images from recent #Sketch_Dailies challenges. Sometimes I don't like the challenge for the day so I'll come up with my own challenge and that's how I got Samurai Mickey. More art to post soon! With teaching at home and taking care of the family takes a great deal of care and time. With that being said I'm working on some personal projects I hope will bare fruit! Samurai Mickey, Count Chocula(daimyo Chocula),Bulbasaur, and Harry Potter with Hedwig.

Link!!

Thanks to my equally nerdy son we talk a lot about Nintendo (not as much as StarWars) and while Lightsaber fighting on one occasion I decided I would be Link and he would be Ganondorf.  This battle sparked a conversation about the GameCube, which I remembered I had. To make a long story short we started playing Zelda:WindWaker which awakened my interest in drawing Link again. It's great when your son shares the same joys with you and you can nerd out together...

EARLY Holiday Cheer

Around this time of the year it seems like commercially we forget about Thanksgiving and run straight for the Christmas Isles. This year Christmas has come early in my house hold because my wife just gave birth to our son. So IT MAY SEEM that I bit the early Christmas bug but this year I have a great excuse!

The First Week of INKTOBER complete!!!

There's a lot of good reasons to enjoy the month of October, at least I hope most of the population would think so. October is a month full of those reasons: pumpkin everything, Fall, pumpkin carving, pumpkin patches (those last two could be included in pumpkin everything I guess), Halloween, trick or treating, Universal Classic Monster Movies (really those films are good anytime of the year) and my new personal favorite Inktober. Jake Parker, a talented human being whose art I'm sure amazes too many to mention, started the whole thing. Thanks to him I can't wait for October, along with all those other reasons. So enjoy the pictures and if you feel inspired participate! Visit Mr. Parker's site and get educated:
http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober


MY FIRST WEEK OF IMAGES:

Sketch Dailies faves of the week

This past weeks Sketch Dailies were great fun and I'd like to share with you two of my favorites!
Squidward and the loveable Mr. Hyde!! Each day I'm loving this challenge and now my son is getting involved along with #Inktober. Stay tuned for my first week of #Inktober pieces this Wednesday!