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New Work

I haven't posted any thing in for ever so here is some current work let me know what yall think.
Mike

My first painting!!!

It's Acrylic on wood. My beau is teaching me the ways of painting. So far i dig it. The scan turned out odd. it looks a ton better in person.


The image below is the sketch and photoshop color comp i did before i started painting. Looks a lot different.

Click me..

One of my flash work

RRRAAWWWWRRRRR!!!!

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the blues

i was out earlier tonight,
i didnt really want to be at home, to be honest i really dont want to be anywhere right now...

on saturday this woman comes into work and i swear my breath catches in my throat.

and for a moment i thought it was her, i had to check the tattoos to make sure it wasnt.

if she had a sister this woman would have been her.


and last night...

this is what i wrote earlier tonight when i was trying to draw:

this place is making me feel old tonight. it would be one thing id those years spent had yielded anything as far as my present is concerned. but as it stands, i had those years, i had everything that i ever wanted, i had her. really thats all i ever wanted, to be with her, and now shes gone, and that future with her and i have nothing.

nothing but unwanted memories of being happier that i have been since.

and then again i might be idealizing my past, old people tend to do that.

and i so wish that i was done with this, with her, these feelings that i cant seem to get over. oh i think i have, i think that ive moved on but something always seems to come up to remind me of her and the dreams begin again.

she wasnt always that nice, or compassionate, or really even all that beautiful, at least not in the classical sense,but for whatever reason i think that she was the one that i was meant to be with.

in retrospect i have never carried around feelings for someone as long as i have for her.

so the dreams, when i dream of her, i guess that they are more nightmares than anything else, i wake up sweating and on the verge of tears, half-remembered images of what happened.

and knowing that i had had her and then lost her all over again.

and its been so long now that i know the woman im hung up on, that i cant seem to let go of doesnt even exist anymore, that she has chanced and become a different person than i remember.

that and i can barely remember her face anymore.

the only thing that i can remember are smell of her hair, the taste of her lips and the blues of her eyes.


original blue pencil sketch
sketch i did of her years ago, before we got back together

Pin-up Mermaid

This is a Mermaid I did with RSA for my sisters board. She wanted a 50's pin-up type mermaid. So this is what I came up with.

a change of pace

this is one of the reasons i do like my job, there are moments where i seem to really bring a moment of happiness into peoples lives.

i know its not lasting but they feel special when i remember their name or drink or both.


oh...
...ive been trying different layouts here, but so far i have not been able to make these browser friendly on blogspot, you still have to click on the image to read them...

if anyone has any suggestions, tips, pointers, etc., id be happy to hear them.

green

for some reason i dont do so well with prompts that are colors. at least at first, this one is the idea i finally came up with after much much thought.

when i was in preschool i loved kermit the frog, and from what ive been told, the color green. so much so that when i was at school i would take all the green paint and not let anyone else use it.

kinda like picasso's blue period, only green and fingerpaints... and being like four.

this was a post i had made a few months ago, but if the prompt fits...

puzzle

if only women were as easy to figure out as the puzzles in the news paper.

and then theres this guy

okay, theres this guy that came in and was all like "end of the day mode", he had thetop button unbuttoned, the tie loosened, shirt half un-tucked, the works.

and he swaggers up and says the lamest thing a person could say.

latte me...

what the hell is that?

latte me.

and yes, as he said that, he did throw the horns.

douche.

(and ive tried making these comics web friendly, however there are limits to the size allowed by blogger and unless i want to move it to a web comic server, which i dont really want to yet, it will have to stay the way it is for the time being, i hope that its cool with everyone.)

one of the perks of my job.

one of the perks of my job.

the other day i got a rare treat.

this woman came in with a screaming, snot dripping, whiny child in tow.

the treat?

at one point, years and years, pounds and pounds, and before that cute freckle turned into a nasty, hairy mole, i had dated her.

and she had cheated on me, and eventually left.

and i realized in that moment that i had dodged a massive bullet.

the only downside was that i had to take her order.

heaven

heaven is a nice comfy pair of boots that have lasted seven years and still feel like home, even when home doesnt feel like it anymore.

discovery

another in the life as a coffee wage slave, single panel as i think that is all that is needed in this case.

i really dont think that she was happy with this discovery, what can i say, we had had a run on scones, and by nine we were out.

i just got real quiet and shrugged and offered her a muffin on the house.

and suddenly she was my friend.

sometimes i really hate people.

another coffee wage slave moment

this one started about a week or so into working there, women come in and pay for their orders and hand me money or cards with bits of paper or post its attached.

and on these bits of paper are phone numbers and then from the customer... a wink.

and there is no easy out on this one, you cant really pretend you didnt notice, and there is no way in hell youre going to follow up.

so i smile lamely and say, thank you, your drink will be up in a few minutes

D.I. interview with Josh Hoye

Click the title to read Design Inspiration interview with Illustrator Josh Hoye

year one

i followed through.

update

laughter


robot hate monkey


who will love me now?
(for sale)


tummy ache
(for sale)


um... i dont know,
robot in love with flower?
(for sale)


go figure

as always, there is more info on each of these here, so go check it out.

Ketchup Gallery

This blog is lousy with tumbleweeds, I tell ya! In an effort to keep this thing moving--at least for a little while--I've decided to tackle some previous topics for which I had not submitted a drawing. These pieces represent "Pimp My Ride" and "Draw Your Favorite Sports Mascot", respectively. You can probably tell which one I enjoyed more (Hint: it ain't the unicycle!), and I consider that picture an utter failure in almost every regard. Why submit it, or even finish it, you may ask? I believe that we should learn from our creative mistakes, and also make them as public as possible so that the shame can propel us forward to more successful endeavors. Anyway, I hope you enjoy these, even if that enjoyment manifests as derisive laughter. More to come...

Rough animation

this is a little out of the subject
this was a rough animation to the flash animators, the action is like two characters are chased by bees and they jumps into the water. I made this on Flash

Nice Shirt...

Misha Barton with my shirt on I designed for MCT clothing.

t-shirts

some cloathing design im workin on

Clown Hotel

This is my first pass at sketching for this topic. (I won't have time to work on it anymore for a while.) Actually, Catherine reminded me of this experience. We also drove everywhere on vacations- no fancy airplanes for us! So, we'd stay in a lot of hotels- some a bit more interesting than others. One time we stayed in a very small hotel run by ex-clowns. I took the liberty exaggerating a bit in this sketch!

Road Trip

As a kid, I only went on road trips. No plane travel for the Pryor family. Good memories traveling through the landscape of America. This was inspired a little bit by my last trip across the Continent, traveling through Utah.

Week 27

Road Trip
Outsider Art Club, session 127

After a few weeks off, let's kick the OAC back into gear, this time focusing on your most memorable (or regrettable?) Road Trip! No matter where you go or who you go with, any journey in a car ends up with some kind of crazy story. Whether it was getting lost, meeting someone new, or getting chased by a bear, everyone's had an experience to tell.

If not, make up one more ridiculous than you could ever experience...

Let's get drawing!

Jason Statham by _S9_

week 14: Ghetto Star Wars

just sketches, I'll post the real deal soon...

week 08: TV Dinner

I really tried to give this picture a nice and clean 50's look, and I am quite pleased by the 'overall' look.
If this invention were ever in existense... it would have been like NERF guns, those darn things never got old!!! ***And never get cheaper either....***

I wanted to make those pink/purple dots in the background like bubble gumb, meaning "the bubble gumb era" but that didn't turn out that well.

I tried to give the baseball bat a nice red white & blue look, making it all American, totally fitting the 50's era.

And I also tried to add some people in the background, but nothing really looked right except for good old gumb. ***wish it were still .25 cents***

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