So I'm still looking over and posting old stuff, since my life right now consists of writing and rewriting and being way too busy. This is a combination of a drawing I did of my mother's spider plant and a diagram of the human heart, framed by some kind of random squares.

Fan Art!

I've gotten addicted to MS Paint Adventures. Here's some fan art of some of the characters.

Tablet is still broken though.

Hungry Brownie's

I've challenged myself, since joining this blog, to write as often as possible, call it the shotgun approach to literature, so here is yet another short-short. Hopefully it works on some level.

Peeling Red Paint

This story has been half finished all week, I had to complete it regardless of how bad it ended up being. I think the very end works, and the first page isn't bad, but other than that... Well, read at your own risk I suppose.

The door haunted his dreams.

Tutorials can kill the soul.

Especially when that's like all you do with your time for a week. But I got a couple things of my own design done. Well, partially done. It will eventually be a fancy lamp, but right now it's just a vase container thingy.

Animation Project - crappy GIF walkloop

A super quick walking study; trying to approach animating from a more structured angle for once.

Oh god proportions need work too. D:

I'm just starting out with my huge pixelated pomegranate I did this past fall...It's a photoshop-manipulated picture I took of a picture I drew in my sketchbook. The dip in the middle of my sketchbook established a strange horizon line, and some minimum/maximum filters created the noise in the background. I really like the colors that developed in this, and really like the image, but never found a use for it until now. Enjoy!

I just don't even

So my second cousin twice removed (or something like that) commissioned me to draw this for his Air Force Somethingorother. This is the (preliminary) final draft. Kind of a weird request, but hey, for the Tasmanian Devil in a Batman suit with a red/black Air Force theme? I tried to make it as cool as possible.

Demonic Seal

So Katrin is bothering me about posting so here you are, an awesome demonic seal I photoshopped together for an RPG campaign.

Orange I Glad?

I wrote this for the latest round of NPR Three-Minute Fiction. The criteria was that it must contain a joke, and a character must cry. It had to be done in six-hundred words or less, and because I can't seem to get that brevity is the soul of wit, mine clocks in at five ninety-six.
It's past the end of the world and it contains a very bad joke, but which one it is, is for you to decide.

Doodle and a skull.

I have a hard time drawing children so I sketched a child's skull in order to get the base down.

1:30am Senseless

This is as close to real life as I have ever gotten, does that make it insufficiently experimental? Your call, but I had to write it.

Fantasy Mapping - progress

Whooa haven't posted in a while. I have been keeping up somewhat with drawings but I am horrible about scanning/photoing stuff. Here's what I've been working on today:

Photoshop doc edit from hexographer png

Google Earth ftw

Salvador Cullen...?

so I was watching this movie called, "Little Ashes" which is basically about Salvador Dali (starring one Robert Pattinson) and I am only halfway through but it is very full of boylove, and I am A-OK with that

Unfinished page and character sketch

Page 2 of comic, unfinished.

Drawing of a character:

Only a Sailors Tale

I started this a couple days ago way to late at night, I just finished it knowing that I had written the first half of another story at work this afternoon and that if I ever accumulate to much of a backlog of unfinished work I freeze creatively and it's terribly frustrating. Anyway, without further ado;

Only a Sailors Tale

We are told, we sailors, that death by drowning is as peaceful a one as man could wish for. After the time I spent in the South China Seas in 1904 I don't believe a word of it.

An update on an older post

stop motion randomness

Hmm, let's try a video post shall we. This is just some randomness I did with clay for my "freestyle" assignment. It really sucks, because I don't know shit about stop motion and I didn't really care to try hard to get it to look nice.

Sidenote

So, this isn't really art... I guess, but anyways:

Ian had gotten a bag of holding from ThinkGeek a while ago, the strap got pretty jank after his run in with the "two crappy muggers". It's been lurking around my apartment for a little over a week with his intention to fix it while I'm being lame (read: sleeping at normal hours). I took the liberty of fixing it myself, and added this little fleece heart on the inside, because I'm lame.



(Somehow I feel that this fleece heart will protect him from future encounters.)

the ants go marching

Just a quick doodle i did in class about ants and blocks

SHEEP!

Yah, I'm on a roll today! Just finished my sheep stuffed animal for my over-done "freestyle" modeling assignment. If I texture it ever, it will have those creepy over-cute eyes. And no I do not have Serta, I wish I did though.

Foam Lady

Weird little puppet I had to make for my next stop motion assignment. It will involves screwing her feet to the floor apparently? No idea what I'm doing. Also, I'm thinking of coloring it, but not sure what way I want to color it yet. It's made of crayola modeling foam I think, which actually feels like marshmallows and smells like glue. Oh, and aluminum wire.

Another Character sketch

Roommate puppies

My roommate Alex and me as puppies!

An Introduction

I hopped on the EE bandwagon after seeing some of the excellent work being posted here by a number of my friends. I had for some time toyed with the idea of starting a blog of my own, somewhere to post my writings that was not Deviant Art and this provided me with that opportunity.

I write because I love it, not because I do it particularly well, and I always appreciate constructive criticism. I hope to be posting almost exclusively new material on this site and forward those who want to read my earlier work to my DA page (found on my profile). However for this evening I have a recent poem for your perusal.

I call it The Side Street Waltz;

Watch me step-slide

to the rhythm of a boom box

rattling broken windows.

I dance my soft toe by the train tracks

on cracked cement and leaves of grass,

I've moon walked over rooftops

in the moonlight,

past broken street lights,

under stars.

I've thrown a head spin

through a broken heart,

and turned a pirouette on a stage

lit by source fours and footlights.

And it's a lindy hop,

two step,

mosh pit,

dodging slings and arrows in this life of mine.

Who says

white boys can't dance?

Yotee

Oh man, so apparently I fail at this daily updating thing. It's kind of hard to be creative when you're trying to find a job and wading through all those generic online applications with their stupid repetitive generic questions that are supposed to gauge your personality or something >:[

But here I am! With a sketch of another character of mine, the semi-deity Coyote. Yes, he is wearing a pinstripe fedora and a duck tie. I hand drew the picture a while ago and then scanned it in to go back over it with my tablet in Photoshop.
I am aware that he's still missing a forelimb, which I'll get around to sketching in... sometime.

Anuk doodle

A little caricature of my puppy, Anuk. He's stinky and dumb but I love him so.

~KcD

Comic page

As my tablet is still sad: here's a comic page done in colored pencil and pen. It's actually the first page of a comic that I have attempted to create about four time by now. (For those who know about it -- it's the "angel" story).

Character Design Lineart

Well my 3D modeling class wanted us to do some images of the character we wanted to create in the class. It had to be a biped, but I was told the more human like and detailed (expecially clothing and hair) the more hard it would be. I'm guessing when I rig/animate the hair is gonna make me cry.

Also where is everyone? posts guys?

ALL OF THEM

Nothing new today, just a lineup of all the 12th Night guys (and gals).
IT ISN'T CHEATING I SWEAR

Deer Revised

Okay, I changed a lot based on what people said they thought would look better, and looking at better real pictures of deer (there's almost always weeds/grass in the way). Basically, longer legs, less prominent back end, more connected shoulders, and a lower elbow on the front legs.

I'm still not sure if I like this better. I liked the angles, but this is truer to reality and she's gonna do ALOT of leaping, so this might fit that action better.

Opinions?

And yes I should have real lights in there, but I'm lazy.

My tablet is having issues so I'm working in the physical world now. I have to say that I like not staring into a screen when I work. I'm trying to find a way to illustrate comics that is not so focused on inking. I think that my style of working doesn't translate well to ink (or at least very consistently -- I end to make a lot of mistakes and it rarely turns out as well as my under drawing). So here's a drawing using a colored pencil with some inking. I like how portable it is -- unlike watercolors.

Sorry about the lack of cropping. I'm having issues with technology today. This is a character from one f the stories in my head

Publish Post

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12th Night - Antonio and Fabian

The final two!
WHOOHOO I'M FINISHED!!

You can check out the rest of the (newly completed) series here!

I'm not dead! just sick.

Hola, Since last post, I moved back to Minneapolis, got a horrible cold with a fever, and watched ALL of Black Butler. The last one, is sort of not forgivable, but the rest I think is worthy reasons for lack of posting. I started working on my joints, but I can't really show you that, so I have this shitty consolation image of the book I've barely been working on.

There is stuff INSIDE the book as well, which is mostly what I've done the last few days, but it's sort of a surprise for someone, and well, that would ruin it if they saw. Oh, and that blankety thing is the pleather I managed to pick up super cheap yesterday, while I had a fever, for the cover.

Now, does anyone know where in town (Minneapolis) they sell metal book corner protectors?

JoAnne and Michaels have failed me once again.

12th Night - Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Two for the price of one!
Because you really can't have Sir Andrew without Sir Toby...

You can check out the rest of the series here!

Here's another of the doodles I've just started on. This I've been doing while watching reruns of NCIS... what a great show!

(sorry for the bad picture quality)

Apple

Just experimenting with photoshop.

I've been drawing a lot of reflective objects for some reason. *shrugs*

12th Night - Maria

Yay Maria! She's one of my favorite Twelfth Night characters. So sassy!
Sir Toby Belch is up next!

You can check out the rest of the series here!

Derp Dog deserves a friend

Frolicking about like happy people. Or mentally special people.This was drawn at the same time as Derp Dog. Because when I get on a roll, I can draw several pages of silly things at one go.

a new doodle, will be part of a series of two or three peices when i'm finished.

12th Night - Malvolio

Malvolio of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", a character design project I started last semester that I intend to finish before the start of the next semester (aka, I have a week and two days). Also, note that this Twelfth Night as set in the 1920's.

You can check out the rest of the series here!

Madame Midnight

This is a sketch of a character from a illustrated fairy tale story that my little cousin Fiona has asked me to make for her. She is Madame Midnight (oh shit, it's the title!), who isn't a fairy but is a creature from the Otherworld. The cloak she's wearing is made out of a tiger skin and it almost seems as if the gloves on the sleeves have actually become her hands.
I'm actually really pleased with how this has been going. I still have a bit to sketch and then clean it up but it looks good for less than an hour spent on it :D

Swirling Girl

Just a girl.

Hushabye (Page 23 - in progress)

Today I worked on the latest comic page for my webcomic "Hushabye: a nightmare in four parts." I've had horrible artist's block with this page. Mostly to do with the horse.

(The rest of this comic is housed here: http://www.drunkduck.com/Hushabye__A_Nightmare_in_Four_Parts/index.php).

Hi all, here's a recent piece I've been working on. It's Shiva, one of the major Hindu deities. I'm hanging art tonight at Diamonds coffee shop in Northeast Minneapolis (this piece included), so check it out if you're in the neighborhood. It's a pretty neat place and the sweet potato muffin I had there last night was divine.

I'm excited for this blog and to have some sort of feedback community, nice to meet all of you!

So my camera's not working hense I'm going have to cheat a little for today... try to forgive me ;)

Since I can't get anything new up, this is something I actually made a while ago, however it's been in storage since I made it and am only unpacking it and the rest of its series now. It's about birds... mostly crows and sparrows since that's all I saw in Tokyo.

BatComics

I feel I should make a point of posting the -absolute pinnacle of my artistic talent- first. Obviously. Anyways Ian's been playing Arkham Asylum, the first time a friend of mine played through, BatComics started happening, it's only gotten worse. Also Batman's ear bits get exponentially larger. (Yeah Photobooth, you're awesome. I promise to scan things most of the time...)

PN! early concepts

My writer-friend contacted me today about a possible future graphic novel collaboration. I don't have time for it right now but after I graduate I may pursue it as an on/off project. He gave me a brief rundown of the story and some of the characters, and I got so excited I doodled these preliminary things.