I'm getting antsy!

Wow, I'm rather disappointed in myself.  I have not painted anything in two weeks! For me that is quite a long time, but I have been venturing into some of my other artistic abilities working on graphics at my day job and doing some tattoos for friends and family.  It's interesting jumping to and from various forms of art, it's a strange feeling going from paper to skin or from skin to paper.  Drawing/tattooing on skin you have to design to the contours of the body. On paper your trying to emulate those shapes and curves to give the illusion your drawing a body.  It reminds me of Rene Magritte's "This is not a pipe".

I'm not actually ever making something real, although I do get rather caught up in my characters sometimes. A tattoo I did recently on my friend Dan, I and my very talented and good friend Rob collaborated on.  Dan got a tattoo of his "son", I place that in quotations marks because it's not really his son it is just a image placed on his skin.  It was a fun design that I can't wait to finish! His little boy is sitting beside a rocketship (Rob's handy work!) looking into space (Rob's planets!) with thoughts of big hopes and dreams that I'm sure his wonderful father will help him to fulfill. Tattoo's like this remind me of what is real in this life even if on paper or skin you add a little make believe.

It's going to look so good finished! :)

A Character Study

I feel as though I need to work on the different facal expression of one particular character more than what I have been lately. To show that I can draw a single character consistently in different scenes and with different moods. Hopefully some more drawings like this can show my versatility as an illustrator and prove to a Publisher or an Art Director that I could create their vision for a children's book and have characters look consistent throughout an entire story.

He looks like a Chuck to me. Or maybe just stick with Charlie?

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