Day 31 - Crazy Bone

Remember those little toys back in the 90's called Crazy Bones?  Maybe now you will.

Music:
Artist: Big Chocolate
Album: The Red EP

Day 30 - Yell

What started off as just eyes and nose, quickly became a full head.  The inside of the mouth (tongue and teeth) were erased.

Music:
Artist: Dreamshade
Album: The Gift of Life

Day 29 - Eyeball

This is a piece very much inspired by the creature "Ocula" in the movie "Small Soldiers."

Music:
Artist: Dream Theater
Album: Train of Thought

Day 28 - Ball

I'm growing more and more fond of charcoal.  When I did art in High School, I primarily did collages mostly with pen and ink.  I was scared of charcoal for the mere fact that it is so fluid in how it is applied to paper.  but so far this year, I've done quite a bit with it.  And I think I have a newfound love with it.

Music:
Artist: David Julyan
Album: The Cabin in the Woods Soundtrack

Day 27 - Tower

Kind of a future-esque-looking picture of a tower with a face and arms.

Music:
Artist; Breakdown of Sanity
Album: Mirrors

Day 26 - Chapter 1 of CWP

I am currently writing a trilogy.  I started it long ago but never finished.  Then a couple years ago, I decided to revamp it and rewrite the entire trilogy.  And hopefully finish it this time.  This is the art for the first chapter in Book 1.  There is also music for each novel I am also writing.  Altogether, it is called, "The Circuit Wars Project."

Music:
Artist: The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
Album: Danza 4: The Alpha/Omega

Day 25 - Joker

The joker. Why so serious?

Music:
Artist: Hans Zimmer
Album: The Dark Knight Soundtrack

Day 24 - Ocean

This is a picture of a lonely fisherman out in the ocean.

Music:
Artist: David Crowder Band
Album: Give Us Rest or (A Requiem Mass in C [The Happiest of All Keys])

Day 23 - Dummy

Growing up, I had to ventriloquist dummies.  They never scared me but scared others.  This is one of them.

Music:
Artists: Killswitch Engage
Album: As Daylight Dies

Day 22 - Guardian

This piece is entitled "Guardian."  Originally it was going to be just a giant looking down upon a small little guy in the desert but i decided to add more (as I usually do.)  So the giant grew wings and a halo and became an angel.  Today I started experimenting with a blending stick.  I have a massive collection of blending sticks so I thought I might as well put them to good use.

Music:
Artist: Times of Grace
Album: The Hymn of a Broken Man

Day 21 - #wittstrong

#wittstrong

Day 20 - Squid

What started out to be Humpty-Dumpty quickly turned into a squid man wearing a hat.

Music:
Artist: Reign of Darkness and Light
Album: The Unfinished Doomsday

Day 19 - Baby

Today I drew an overstuffed baby. Eating his hand.

Music:
Artist: Coheed and Cambria
Album: The Afterman: Descension

Day 18 - Eyez

This is a dog-man.  With his eyes popping out of his mouth. Yep.  With a mask on.

Music:
Artist: Coheed and Cambria
Album: The Afterman: Ascension

Day 17 - The Dream

This one is very weird for me.  I like to try and remember my dreams, even if it takes me a while.  Most of the time, I remember them.  Especially ones like last nights.  I was in a locker room with Ross and Joey from the show FRIENDS.  We were walking to my locker and when I opened it, there was a little brown ball sitting on the shelf.  It was wiggling around.  Then two legs popped out and a terrifying mouth with razor sharp teeth.  Then it started crying like a baby and Ross and Joey were freaking out because we couldn't feed it milk because none of us were women.  Very strange, so I thought about it today and decided to draw it up.  Because why not?

Music:
Artist: Infant Annihilator
Album: The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution

Day 16 - Hang Wire

Today I am going to start something new.  One each post, I will also write the music I was listening to during the course of drawing the current piece.  I believe music and Art go hand in hand (music is an art-form after all.)  But I strongly believe music can help inspire some of my pieces.  This one is a man holding onto a rope and being pulled down by a weight that is 1,000 lbs.

Music:
Artist: Hans Zimmer
Album: The Inception Soundtrack

Day 15 - Lamp

A Lamp.  Smile!

Day 14 - Clown

Clowns never have scared me.  So even now, I draw creepy clowns.  To scare others.  Because I am not afraid.  Of clowns.  I think they are one of the best things to draw as far as a dark creepy standpoint goes because they are the epitome of childhood laughter and fun.  But whats underneath that makeup....

Day 13 - Creeper

If you hear the "ssssss..." it's already too late.  Boom.

Day 12 - Construct

I wasn't really sure where this piece was going when I started.  I STILL am not sure what it is but I like the idea of an abstract construction of a robot.

Day 11 - Blackbeard

For today, I did one of my favorite techniques in where i grind charcoal down onto a piece of paper, blend it all in and then erase.  Just erase the whole drawing.  So all the white you see, is from erasing back the charcoal.  It was just going to be the eye but I decided halfway through it needed more of a face.  Blackbeard is his name and he is powerful.

Day 10 - Boo

Boo.  I see you.

Day 9 - Bill

When I was younger, i had an imaginary friend named Bill.  This last Christmas, my dad put a fun little figuring toy in my stocking that i built together, and this is him.  Bill.  Not so imaginary anymore.

Day 8 - Worms

I was listening to the album "The Cleansing" by Suicide Silence when I drew this. A pile of worms choking a guy with his hand coming out from his mouth.  Very dark.

Day 7 - Mask

There is a mask hanging in my office. THIS mask.

Day 6 - Birds and Sharks

Sorry I'm late on Day 6.  I drew this yesterday morning but to forgot to post it.  Anyways it was a random-chance piece in where i drop charcoal sticks onto the canvas and then draw from wherever they fell. Birds and sharks. Day 7 coming tonight.

Day 5 - Beanhead

Not really sure what inspired me to do this piece.  I tried to draw a brain on the inside of the fellows head but it ended up looking funky. So I added a smiley face to one of them. And then another.  And then another.  Then they were beans.  Beans in a head.  Beanhead.

Day 4 - Edwards

Was at Edwards Pipe and Tobacco tonight conversing in the lounge with some buddies.  Instant inspiration.  Not too happy with the way the cigar turned out in the picture (it was much better in real life; a Carlos Torano 1959) but it's all about practice, practice, practice!

Day 3 - Creature

Was listening to some very odd metal and was just inspired to draw this. practicing shading with an eraser.

Day 2 - The Circuit Wars Saga

This is my first draft of the cover art for the book trilogy I'm currently writing entitled, "The Circuit Wars Saga"  On the right side is our protagonist, Rex Barton and on the left his arch nemesis, Dr. Live.

Day 1 - Happy New Year!

Day 1 of my art adventure this year.  Just a man with a stick.  That happens to say "HaPPy NeW YEaR!"