Do it, don’t do it, I really don’t care as long as I get to take a nap.

I’m like an architect who doesn’t believe in the notion of “plumb”…

Finally, something that oceanographers and old people can agree on.
Thanks Beatles.

Pop quiz!
Is this an emotionally unstable Nolan Ryan or a quick sketch from today?
Remember to show your work.

A quick sketch from this morning.

Let this recent doodle be a reminder: Are you current on your homeowner’s insurance?
You’re welcome.

Recently I noticed that my online portfolio needed some classing up, so I drew this.

*Lobster tails*

This is a quick mock up a put together a while back for an idea I was playing around with. There is a lot more that goes along with this single illustration… I have the sketches now I just need to pull it all together…

Oh look! It’s a sketch that I did recently… of garlic… with an attitude… I’m guessing she spends most evenings slamming her bedroom door and shouting “GAWD! You’re so lame!” to her parents.

A sketch of a little Black Hole character.
I plan on doing something with this guy. Not sure what. My buddy Bob suggested an animated short. Not a bad idea.

Here’s a quick sketch I did based off of the title of a chapter in the Joaquin Jackson book I have been listening to at work. It really has nothing to do with the content of the chapter… Just an excuse to draw a bear.

A quick sketch I did recently.

Good luck getting a date, pal.

Look, I don’t know what you said to him, but you know as well as I do how sensitive the living dead are. Were you complaining about your sunburn from vacation? You know he wishes that he had skin to burn, right? At lunch today did you go on and on about how delicious your toasted meatball sandwich was while he sat there silent, forced to eat last night’s cold leftover brain? It’s not easy to live, then die, then live again. They are doing the best they can… just as fast as they can… which isn’t very fast, so don’t challenge him to a footrace, ok? Remember, eventually they will probably all unionize, rise up, and attack all of us humans. Do you want to be first on their list of people to maul? All I’m saying is that a little consideration on your part can go a long way.

A quick mess of a sketch from lunch today.

A quick sketch from today.
He’s not based off of an actual photograph, so I made stuff up. So if you’re a historian, I apologize. Also, I hope you find love because you’re probably not married… you know, because you’re a historian.

I’m totally going to buy a kepi so I hope you’re all ready.

A quick one from today.
I’ll be posting the original sketch to my Twitter.
Yowza! It’s like a bonus gift!

A few weeks ago I was invited to participate in the Records Breaker show at the American Greetings Corporate gallery in Cleveland. Everything had to be either be painted on a vinyl record or be made from a vinyl record. Since my engineering license was revoked, I decided to paint on one. This is the finished product.

So, a few weeks back Von Glitschka asked me to contribute to his new book about patterns. He provided me a pattern and then gave me free reign as to how to use it in an illustration. Cool, right? Wrong. It was hard. I went round and round with ideas, one evolving into another then morphing into something else. When it was all said and done, this is what I was left with. The pattern (which you can see in the king’s coat and in the jester’s hat) automatically made me think of the Crusades… which made me think of medieval things… which lead to the king and jester. The hip hop-ish elements of the illustration were influenced by the colors I wanted to use; bright and burning. Basically it was a convenient way for me to justify using hot pink… which, if you know me, is something I’m always trying to do…

Thanks to Von for letting me participate. Rumor is that the book will be out in March of 2011. Buy a copy.

Click on the image to see a larger version.

This isn’t what I typically do, but here is my attempt at doing something more illustrative for a project… kind of in the vein of game art, I guess
You can almost smell the dead fish, right?

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever drawn…

This is an old work-in-progress illustration I did a year or so ago. It’s of dangerous stuff: a thuggish looking pug, a skull, a knife, rosemary. It’s the stuff your mother warned you about. Did you heed her warning? Obviously not.

School is almost out but I’m sure that this kid will be held back… again.

This is a semi-rejected character design I did for a project a few months back.

Gideon Welles was the Secretary of Navy for the Union during the Civil War… which made him a member of Lincoln’s War Cabinet.
Oh to be a fly on the wall during that time…