Showing posts with label west. Show all posts
Showing posts with label west. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2011

cowboys and critters

Full view, s'il vous plait :)
this is about 11x17. biggest thing I've done in awhile. Acrylic and micron pen here and there. I'm getting goofier and cartoonier as time goes on, and i think I like it.

and I really don't know why i drew this. It's me chasing a cat that's stolen my choco chip cookie dough. Durn varmints.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

bronco

not sure i like the outline. Since this was just a quick one, I probably won't fix it.
Background
Idea.

more photoshop.
'nother cowboy ill. I have another one dreamed up already that I'll sketch up tonight. It'll be another cowboy, but he won't be doing cowboy things. For once.

... I think i just like drawing outrageous cartoony expressions lately.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Cowboy mailer

so I decided to do a second mailer because this is another style i have a lot of fun doing.

THis guy happened as I was doodling in class. And so now I acrylic'd him.

8x9. will resize for card when i'm not sleep deprived/burnt out.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Mailer

Whaddreya doin', draggin' that bonehead around with you everywhere, girl?

er... acrylic. Promotional mailer probably. We only needed a sketch for class but I kiiinda got into it.

Full view please, I paint small.

acrylic on ill board. 6x8. will scale it down for the actual mailer.


"Joni's in the tall grass
She's a beautiful mental jukebox
A sailboat explosion
A snap of electric whipcrack....

She's not thinking about the future
She's not spinning her wheels
She doesn't think at all about the past
She's thinking long and hard about that wild sound
And wondering
Will it last???"

-hey joni, sonic youth

Thursday, July 8, 2010

I'm not rich, but lord, I'm free.

So no art to report. But I'll show you where I've been and what I've been doing.

I'm in Colorado.
Where the clouds kiss the mountaintops, the smell after it rains is just... beyond words (think juniper and ponderosa with something magical and unidentifiable thrown in).... I've seen tons of rainbows, some dramatic storms and lightning... I've seen and heard falcons fighting over nests, their screams echoing out over towering red rocks. I've seen pastel mountains and black silk sunsets. Fuzzy antlers and desolate mud flats. I have had times where I couldn't tell a cloudbank from a distant mountain range. I've had Jehovah's Witnesses chase our car down to see if we're okay, slept in a hotel with a drive in movie theatre next door that we can watch from our room... Ate in a place that offered rattlesnake... I had buffalo empanadas and coffee/ancho chile rubbed duck. With bear's blood. which was tequila with pomegranate and lemon/lime juices. I danced around a teepee. I got a migraine that just about killed me. The next day guys, not because of tequila. Took a train up to the summit of Pike's Peak. I went to the US Air Force Academy and remembered my first dream in life- to be a pilot. That and drool on smart attractive men in uniform. Ahem.

Got to hang out in Denver with my mum's old college roommate. She's young at heart and we had a great time, the three of us. I've had a lot of other friends in and out of Denver, but sadly none of them are there now or I would've seen them, too.

We pretty much take the lesser highways and stuff. You never know what you'll find. That's the whole point of road trips- getting the hell away from it all. We blast the radio and just go. It's adventurous, it's exhausting, it's exhilarating... And I couldn't be happier. Too much wanderlust, I guess.

But enough rambling. I have a lot of awesome pictures. But the internet here is sketch and I can't seem to upload them, although I've been trying for like... an hour.
I'll put some on when I can. If you're my bud on facebook, I put a bunch of others on there.

Things have been rough in the past. But dammit, this trip's giving me a new lease on life. I really want to keep on livin'. There's too much out there to just give up.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Frontiersmen

cowboys and spacemen. a.k.a. I've been watching too much Toy Story 3. haha.