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A 30 minute sketch - Gateway of India. My first try on live sketch.

Sketchbook page from a night at the Anaheim Packing House.

history made! Cubs won the World Series after 108 years!!!

Teri, graphite.

Dionne. Colored pencil, Copic multi liner, white gel pen.

Firehouse cultural center summer camp #sketchwallet #firehouseculturalcenter

While waiting for a friend, sitting in front of the library. Trying my best, To finish up my cheap coffee.

(Black biro on a 75mm x 125mm notecard) A juxtaposed image of a comic book type image with an unrelated speech caption. The type of thing you tend to hear from those on their mobile phones on buses.

(2B pencil on A6 card) A parody of the type of advert you'd see in the old comic books. What nasty little child wouldn't want something as wonderful as this?

(2B pencil on a 87mm x 139mm postcard) There used to be comic book adverts for cap grenades, which this is a parody of.

(2B pencil on a 87mm x 139mm postcard) The idea of owning an exotic pet was always used in comic book adverts. The most well known one being the sea monkeys. People thought they were getting something really special, until it was pointed out to them that they were just brine shrimp. But imagine if something like a pet demon was available!

(2B pencil on a 87mm x 139mm postcard) X-ray specs were an iconic mail order item in comics. It was one of the first things that kids bought that introduced them to the world of dubious adverts. I kept the image here simple, like the original advert.

Watercolors & Colored pencils portrait of Mathilda.

Cheered up the boring binder (& won a local Edding contest with this one)

My favorite author Howard Phillips Lovecraft

My first portrait drawn after years of nonpracticing this area.

Man behind Newspaper 'Landbote' in Train from Zuerich to Basel

Just at that moment she glanced towards him and saw him smiling at her, his eyes lingering on her with warmth and an indefinable something else, her heart caught in her chest. - Emily Arden

I will remember the kisses, our raw lips with love, and how you gave me everything and how I offered you what was left of me - Charles Bukowski

Used to be the local bank, but now transformed into a trendy hairdressers.

This was a commission piece for a local hair design salon (Atomic Salon). One of the owners wanted to have a portrait of the duo-founders/owners in the style of an old photo.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.... #music

(2B pencil on a 87mm x 139mm postcard) Sometimes, how-to books were sold in old comic book adverts. These ranged from ventriloquism to hypnosis and promised amazing things when, in reality, they were just little booklets. With this artwork, I chose to depict one that would show you how to build something truly wonderful.

(2B pencil on a 87mm x 139mm postcard) The old comic book adverts used to promise amazing things for cheap prices. Here, I've spoofed that with an advert for a mind probe.

(2B pencil on a 139mm x 87mm postcard) A single comic book frame can sometimes tell a great story on its own, sometimes differing from the story in the actual comic book. An idea that I used with this frame that I drew.

(HB pencil on a 89mm x 139mm postcard) The strangest things can sometimes trigger lucidity in dreams. Forget the fact that she was naked, or that she was sat next to an invisible man and that there was a monster trying to grope her. The dragon-headed man was smoking in a no smoking area. How fucking dare he?!

(black biro on a 140mm x 88mm postcard) The insane obsession that the Joker has with Batman always ends with him hurting himself.

(fineliner on a 87mm x 139mm postcard) A piece that makes you think more about colour where there is none.

Persian sketchbook no.1, which subsequently has been published as a book under the title SAVARI – an illustrated journey through Iran & India.

Sketching in Tehran. Persian sketchbook no.2