A long, long time ago.../A whole book!

Been MIA for a while, but I'm back I'm alive and doing well, and here's the highlights of a whole sketchbook you haven't seen yet...



Meet Elizabeth!


CRAZY HATS!!



This is for my animated short film, which I'll post here sometime soon!



Cafe Sketches

Took a road trip up to Oregon, this was done on the road, while co-piloting!



This is an Anarchist cafe in Portland!


A typical (AWESOME) page of notes in class...


GRAVESTONE REFERENCE/PRACTICE!! :D :D :D


Some "people on the BART" sketches...


Gather is a sweet looking VEG place in Berkeley, unfortunately I'm too poor to try it yet...


Some Nerd Sketches from the local Anime Convention...






Decided I need to work on my buildings/perspective... this ones across from the convention center in SJ



I think my favorite costume was the Giant Ewok costume! :D


Started a sketch group here in San Jose!

Some humorous BART sketches I liked



Some BARTraits ;)



SO unlike me to leave this much white space but... I liked the sketches so here you go...

An unfinished sketch based on the sculptures on campus


More sketch group goodness...



Bar Sketches in Southern California haha



Dared to do some left handed drawing after a few beers...


While in Southern California, I went to the Getty Museum where they had this amazing show of the French painter/scuptor Gerome... simply amazing!!


So... naturally I did some studies... :D!


"The Ball Player"




and another sketch from the main collection @ the Getty

an amusing sketch of my Grandfather (top) and some other guy haha

A 'hobbit house' in Berke-town!


Okay that's it for now! Long time coming, but thanks to you all who looked forward to this post and asked me, "hey, when's you're next post?" It means a lot, and I'm gonna try to not have a gap like this again... See you next week with some scans from my new sketchbook!

You call this Natural history?

*PHEW* So I just finished my run of 3 Museums in 3 Days including: The Getty Villa, The Norton Simon, and the Natural History Museum! Heres my favortie sketches from the second two days the first one is from the Norton Simon and the rest are from the Natural History Museum of LA...



For all I'd heard about the Sculpture garden at the Norton Simon I was rather dissapointed when I got there.... maybe it was cause I was looking at Greek and Roman statues the day before though... :) I still managed to get a good page of what they had drawn though... The rest of the museum blew my mind though... I think I'm going to go back next time I'm in town! Mr. Simon had a GREAT collection of art work!



It's really not as big as I remember it as a kid...



It was kind of like the science building at SJSU... only tenfold...
Lots of dead animals... This is definately not a place I'd wanna be when the Zombie outbreak occurs!



I did get some more time to really think about the subject matter of my upcoming Tidepool project though!



I REALLY like the T-Rex but I everything went to hell by the time I got to the Triceratops... I think I'm gonna photoshop him out ;P

My mind is blown by everything I saw in these past few days though... I think I learned more in each of these museums than weeks at a time in High School!

Well... thats about it for now... back to studying anatomy!

DRAW DRAW DRAW
STUDY STUDY STUDY!!!

Great Blue Zeus!

Today I went to the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu! Located at the original location of the Getty museum, the Villa displays the Getty's Collection of Greek and Roman art work. The whole place is beautiful and build as a replica of an ancient Roman Villa. I had such a good time I lost track of time and spent over 6 hours at the place! I'm convinced that museums are the equivalent of amusement parks for adults! haha



Yesterday when I was drawing the statues at my brother's school I was thinking how I really needed to practice drapery more, fortunately... It's not necessary when drawing from Greek & Roman Sculpture!



I had trouble making the faces look as they we're suposed to but I have the same problem when drawing people from life, so I guess this is something I need to work on.



I love to draw from statues so this place was sooo much fun to draw in!

One museum down... two more to go! See you tomorrow!