Transmutation

A series I'm working on which I may develop into a narrative. Mainly just playing around with color and texture, fast and loose. It begins with a figure awakening in a strange realm of chaotic energy. He quickly becomes aware of a shadowy aura emanating from his body and it doesn't take much longer for him to realize he can control it by focusing and manipulating the white light densely coiled and spiraling within him. That's as much as I have so far, not sure what's next...

Centurypede

A sketch inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. In it the main character Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences past and future events out of sequence over the course of the novel. At one point he is kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore and exhibited in their exoplanetary zoo. The Tralfamadorians just so happen to see things in four dimensions and have already witnessed every instant of their lives. They believe in predestination and say they cannot change anything about their fates, but are able to concentrate upon any moment of their choice.

So to elucidate further, they describe a human life as seen in the fourth dimension to be like a centipede of countless arms and legs stretched out from birth to death. Every moment and movement captured as fragments densely crisscrossing and interacting with countless other centipedes. Too much to grasp in its entirety, so I simplified the concept into a collection of faces that begin at the fetus on the tail end and gradually grow older, finally culminating with a grimacing skull. The swirled ripple around the fetus and portal in the eye of the skull are a linked vortex, representing the process of reincarnation.

Dream Dragon

Started this one on the train and took me a couple days to finish it up. Like my last post, I didn't really have much of formulated image in mind ~ just kept adding to it until it covered two full pages of my sketchbook. Dragons... always a solid subject :-}

Road Sketch

Went on a road trip to Ottawa a couple weeks ago and drew this on the way back. Been drawing a lot more with colored pens lately rather than pencilling in first like I normally do. Started with a few random scribbles and slowly formed it from there. A purely additive process that I really enjoy. Did a lot of good to get this one out onto the page :}

Death & Rebirth

War & Peace

Process shots of a school project with a war and peace theme.

To look back upon human history it would appear that peace is merely the time between wars, considering that a sizable portion of recorded history is riddled with acts of savagery and slaughter. As such, the hourglass is continuously being flipped and the process repeated.

The dove slowly dissolves into the open hatch of a black tank teetering on the precipice of a cascading oil wave. Above the dove sits the Flower of Life, an ancient and universal icon of creation. Also representative of the underlying order contained within apparently chaotic conditions.

In each of the corners spin the gears of war, powered at their core by the ruthless greed of the Industrial Military Complex ~ personified by a snake coiled around a bomb. Standing as pillars on either end of the hourglass are DNA strands containing humanity's potential for creation as well as destruction.

Set behind it all sits Earth's energy source, the radiant inferno that is the Sun.

Fetal Fractal

Stippled in my sketchbook and manipulated digitally, I inverted the tones to give the appearance of stars. This piece represents an evolution of mankind from terrestrial dweller to galactic being.

Linked umbilically, fetal fractals bloom from their foreheads in accordance with the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8).  An unfolding act of co-creation echoing throughout space and time.

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Goddess of the Harvest

This piece is my tribute to Demeter. In Greek mythology she was the most generous of the great Olympian goddesses. Beloved for her service to mankind, she gave the gift of the harvest as reward for cultivation of the soil. Also known as the Roman goddess Ceres, Demeter was credited with teaching humans how to grow, preserve, and prepare grain.

She was the only Greek goddess involved on a day-to-day basis in the lives of the common folk. While others occasionally "dabbled" in human affairs when it suited their personal interests, or came to the aid of "special" mortals they favored, Demeter was truly the nurturer of mankind.

Demeter was also the only Greek goddess who could truly empathize with the human experience of suffering and grief, having experienced it fully herself.

Seen here, she is dancing over a newly seeded crop, bestowing the land with fertility for a bountiful harvest.

Text lifted from www.goddessgift.com

Guardian Angel

This was one of the first pieces I drew in this style and it was during a trip with my parents to Las Vegas last September. The idea came to me after I was playing around with drawing from a single continuous line. Although this image consists of many broken lines, I was aiming for that fluidity of one line interwoven over itself to create form. Contained infinity operating on many levels...

Flight for Freedom

As the eagle swoops and soars through the sky in all its vastness, bold precision and clarity of vision guide it as it glides in total freedom.Expanded the concept further with the addition of a second eagle set against a backdrop of the binary stars of the Sirius system. Approaching an uncharted height while relinquishing past patterns of flight. Entitled "Sirius Soaring"

A New Dawn

A stag and doe greet the dawn as morning mist curls through the mountains, rising and falling as a new day settles in.

Swift from the Rift

Unleashed upon the landscape, the ooze quickly took form as a stallion, galloping wildly forward into an unknown world:::

Lakra 2.0

I wanted to have the environment respond in some way to the animal's presence, the ground being a sort of holographic gridwork.  Etheric wisps of plasma spring outwards as if dancing with the movements of the tiger.

The plasma wisps reminded me of anemone and I adjusted the color scheme to suit this. The terrain has become more naturally contoured and I've added some bubbles in to enhance the underwater effect.

I am returned.

Hey folks, it's been a while since my last post and I finally felt it was time for an update. Now that I have a little more time on my hands since summer's rolled around I should be posting a lot more regularly. Got lots of new art and I needs to bust it out for y'all. For starters, here's the progress on the sacred animal series I've been working on. When the series is complete it's going to become a large panoramic landscape populated with dozens of them crazy critters!

A new approach

Here are a few more in the works.



Here's the close-to-final version of the previous piece. Adjusted the pose slightly, but still want to add more environment and perhaps some texture.
Recently I've been playing around with an alternate style which focuses more on line, shape and contour rather than rendering to create depth. This one is titled "Lakra" which means tiger in Indian. It's the first piece in a series of 20. In addition I intend to infuse principles of sacred geometry within each piece which I hope will provide a more natural flow to the grace and movement of each animal.

If you're not familiar with sacred geometry, check this out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_geometry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity

New sketchbook!

A guest speaker lecturing on brand strategy in my business class today.

Coyote ugly

At the Mountains of Madness...The first drawing in my new sketchbook... drawn during a full moon no less.

T-shirt designs

Burn what you love, love what you burn...

Some stuff from my sketchbook...

Buddha Bomb

The Moon Dance

Takin' out the trash...

Half man, half poodle.... moodle.