So as you can see, I haven't been blogging at all lately.. That's because I haven't drawn at all lately either. I guess drawing all day at work destroys your appetite to create anything at home. Its like being an accountant that works hard all day on other people's investments, profits, and losses, and then coming home only to review your families' grocery store budgets and expenditures; or doing your taxes every night.. I told this to a guy at work recently who asked me what kind of art I create outside of work and he said, "They say that mechanics have the worst cars right?" So I guess it all makes sense.

Anyway, as of late, all I can draw are caricatures anyway. I'm finding it very hard to be inspired to just draw like I used to. I did recently finish a rather large piece last month and I redesigned my backpack that I have had forever, but other than that I've been unmotivated.

Here's a picture of my super old backpack that I got it when I was a junior in high school. It is amazing that it is over ten years old, has been used everyday, has been so many places, and still hasn't given me one single problem. Whenever I was bored somewhere I would take out a marker and draw on it. It's had at lease five makeovers in the past six years and has been my little sidekick everywhere I go.

Drawing on it was a lot of fun this time because I was able to still use the sun-faded drawing from yesteryear and incorporate new ideas with the old. It has my signature dark mannerist collage style with all the contorting faces housing scary expressions, but its colorful nature warms the book bag away from the nightmare it could be. The word "Think" at the top is one of the original images and the first thing I wrote on the bag. "INK" is more apparent this time around which was my graffiti name that I never wrote anywhere lol. It's just a word that means a lot to me and would be something I would write if I wrote graffiti. The stars are extremely important to me and have been sporadically placed around the bag several times now. For the past fifteen years now my mom has bought me a star around holiday season which became a tradition and it's been a tradition in a lot of my artwork. AHhh.. I'm done. Here it is.

Ninety-percent of my artwork is derived my sketchbooks. These are drawings that never had a plan or idea because I find it a lot easier to just pick up a pencil/pen and just go. These pieces were started with sheer boredom and finished with techniques, experience with materials, and/or the desire to finish them. I draw with the absence of ideas sometimes for a reason. My pictures become a virtual collage of things that I'm feeling at that moment, or something that I did that week. It tells a story, not some much to the viewer, but to me. My own personal diary right there under your nose. Every picture that I create, when gazed upon later, reminds me of that time in my life. Everyone has troubles growing up and this was my way to vent without a companion to dishevel my life to. The next three images display this very well. They are titled after baseball players who were caught using steroids because that's how I see these drawings. They are my sketchbook entries on steroids. The other images are random again like the first post. Either way, with that said, here's s'mores.

Jason Giambi (Non Concentric)

I Am D.Lyons

Jordan Tilliewitz

Poor Taylor

Lord of the Nats

Kaman New Materials 2

Kaman New Materials 1

New Anxiety

He'll Eat You Out of House and Home

Blue Power

Recycle Me

Hang Your Head

Untitled

New Pirates

Small Sketchbook Scores $20

Well, here it is. My first blog! My girlfriend Natalie created this blog for me four months ago and has been on my case ever since to post something. My reason for not posting was because I didn't have a working camera and could not keep this blog updated. She told me to use some old images just to get started so I'm finally taking her advise. I have a million words for each one of these pieces but just for the sake of getting some art out there, I only titled them for now. "For now" may be forever so if you do like one in particular and would like to know more about it, leave me a comment and I'll caption the work inquired. I hope you like them.

Duh Bears


Terrance Oris Rex


The Pink Life
The Ski Lodge
History is Awesome
I Have Wings!
Windsor Knot