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Some studies from the @fullertonarboretum Friday. These are random studies for my Sketching for Animators and Illustrators class. This is how I create handouts. We're hitting the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles this Saturday. Can't wait! #fullertonc

Sketch in the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. I used a tombow art pen. Check out more work at chinadoesart.com

Still messing about

A parody of The Discobolus (Discus Thrower), a well-known Greek statue. More about it in this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discobolus

messing about

Every once in a while, let the unicorns out!

This is my first sketch ever posted online and you may also watch the making of this sketch on this link and comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1VwPtdsOmQ&t=41s

I realized that I hadn't really used the paint markers I got earlier this year so I thought I'd try them out.

Take A Step Outside Yourself - Pens on vintage photo.

Garbage can: I wanted to try out my 'Secret Shoppers' doodle on a soft surface before I tried it on canvas, and I found a garbage can in our garage that worked okay

I call this one 'Secret Shoppers'. She's feeling down, so going downtown and shopping helps. The colors and balloons symbolize her mood changing :) Later on, I did end up painting this on canvas in black and white, it's about 54 inches tall, but I still w

Trying out some drawing on a slightly bigger scale( it's still only 8"x12, but I usually draw in a tiny scale). It was fun and interesting because it made me try new things.

First time drawing in a long, long time... simply testing out the waters

Spray paint, marker, and ink on wood cutout

Spray paint, marker, and ink on wood cutout

Spray paint, marker, and ink on wood cutout

A mermaid out with a purpose

Spray paint, marker, and ink on wood cutout

I spotted a huge line drawing on YouTube. I was curious about how it feels to draw just lines over and over again. The one on the web was four times as big as this one (on A3 paper). Half way through I started to nod off. Next morning I thought the green

Q started off as a bass clef, but got out of hand!

"Girl & Death". What started out as two separate pieces for Upfest in Bristol, slowly merged into one collaborative painting. On the left my part, on the right the artwork by Luke Gray (http://lukegray.net)

Lately, I have been working primarily on the computer to wrap up a coloring book that I just published. I've decided to make August about focusing on my sketchbook and discover some new things. I don't really have a direction in mind other than to tackle

...about loving yourself!!

Into or out of the abyss. Individual perspective is everything. What do you see?

Creature from the Sketchbook- transforming into wood cutout soon.

Was just hanging out with my wife and son in the living room last night and this spilled into my Moleskine.

Moleskine spread. If I don't get it out on paper, my brain will explode and who wants that mess to deal with? Stay safe. Sketch regularly.

Painted Zip disk. Mixed media. I love old retro stuff and found rejected objects. It's hard to believe how fast zip, floppy, jaz, etc. disks became yesterdays technology. It's about time these old disks found a new purpose and some respect.

This is another improvised painting - in oils this time, but poured on after diluting with white spirit and then tidied up with a paint brush chasing the forms that appeared. You need to outside to do one like this. Very fast to make, but they stink like

Animals on the move - this is a doodle painted in acrylics. I start by throwing colours down, then look for something to make into an element. It all takes about as long as a drawn doodle does and there is no prior plan and I do not do any drawing at all!