03.28.06 Tuesday @4:24 PM EST

Here is another work in progress that I started in Photoshop a few days ago. It's going to be an illustration based on the original version of The Little Mermaid.

03.27.06 Monday @10:54 AM EST

I started coloring this pencil sketch that I'd drawn a while back. I'd always been really happy with the way the sketch turned out, and I'm having fun coloring it in Photoshop.

03.26.06 Sunday @11:13 PM EST

Yes, yes, I still have Sawyer and Lost on the brain. I've been working on a whole bunch of different pictures, but to take a break from that stuff, I made another Lost picture. It was just something fun to draw while I was mentally working out the problems with the other pictures I've been making - and Sawyer and his dimples definitely qualify as fun for me.

I drew and inked this on watercolor paper and then painted over it with a series of ink washes. People keep asking me if these are watercolor pictures - they're not! Ink washes are just what they sound like - painting with watered down ink. There is no watercolor involved. After I scanned the inked picture, I did all of the coloring in Photoshop with my tablet. I have included both the finished picture and the uncolored version of it here.

A larger version of this can also be viewed here in my DA gallery.

03.12.06 Sunday @10:02 PM EST

This picture is Charlie from Lost. I had a few requests to make an illustration of Charlie after I started drawing Sawyer. Charlie's a great character, so it didn't take a whole lot of encouraging before I started this.

I drew and inked this on watercolor paper and then painted over it with a series of ink washes. Then I scanned it and did all of the coloring in Photoshop with my tablet, using scans of separate ink washes I'd done for the background.

A larger version of this can also be viewed here in my DA gallery.

03.09.06 Thursday @9:37 AM EST

Haha, I made another Sawyer picture. Fangirl? Me? ;)

I think I still like my first Sawyer picture better, but I wanted to try a closer cropped portrait this time around. I drew and inked this on watercolor paper and then painted over it with a series of ink washes. Then I scanned it and did the coloring in Photoshop with my tablet.

A larger version of this can be viewed here in my DA gallery.

03.06.06 Monday @7:12 PM EST

Last night at work I had "Ring of Fire" stuck in my head due to all the Oscar stuff. One thing led to another, and soon enough I found myself drawing Joaquin Phoenix.

I'm still playing around with that style that I've been trying out in a few recent pics, and it was fun trying it out for this picture. I drew and inked this on watercolor paper and then painted over it with a series of ink washes. Then I scanned it and did the coloring in Photoshop with my tablet.

A larger version of this can also be viewed here in my DA gallery.

Prints of this illustration are now available here!

03.05.06 Sunday @3:22 PM EST

I painted this in 2004, but only recently was able to get a decent scan of it. This is actually from a series of three paintings I did, but this is by far my favorite from the series and the only one I feel is good enough to post. This was done with oil paints and is based on a photograph I took at Rosedown Plantation in Louisiana. That photo was in broad daylight however, so I had a lot of fun turning it into my idea of what it would look like in moonlight.

Prints of this painting are available right here.

03.03.06 Friday @2:31 PM EST

Considering that this started out as kind of a spur of the moment whim, I'm rather pleased with the finished product. It was only a matter of time until I made some Lost fanart.

Sawyer is easily my favorite character on the show. Yeah, he's a jerk half the time, but his character is really interesting and keeps becoming more interesting as the show progresses. Anti-heroes are always intriguing characters. Plus, the snarky attitude is just fun...and the pretty doesn't hurt.

I drew and inked Sawyer on watercolor paper and then painted over it with a series of ink washes. Then I scanned it and did the coloring in Photoshop with my tablet, using one of my photographs for part of the background.

A larger version of this can also be found here in my DA gallery.

03.02.06 Thursday @11:32 PM EST

A black and white pen sketch, based on an old photograph in a magazine.