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Falling Leaf Animation

Animation test of a falling leaf created on my iPad using the Animation Creator HD app.

baby layla

Our Little Layla

calendar sketch

pen - pilot p-500

A quick little doodle while waiting for our meeting to start.

alien mech sketch - first encounter

digital pencil - autodesk sketchbook pro

His first encounter with the alien mech.

landscape sketch - digital pencils

digital pencils
Based on last weeks thumbnail sketches, this is my first landscape sketch using 2b and 6b pencils in corel painter.

landscape thumbnails

pen on textured paper

Landscape thumbnail studies. Next step... digital painting. (Totally inspired by Marco Bucci's iTouch paintings!)

suit sketch

digital - autodesk sketchbook pro

A new year, a new "restart" for more sketches! While I eagerly await the Apple Tablet, I'm warming up my sketching muscles with some digital drawings.

pen sketches - afghan farmer and jack black

Afghan Farmer sketch 1
pen - pilot p-500


Afghan Farmer sketch 2
pen - pilot p-500


Jack Black sketch (unintentionally channeling Stanley Kubrick)
pen - pilot p-500

I've been trying to do more sketching these days.I tend to over crosshatch. Tonight I wanted to focus on my lines and flow. I really want to work on being conservative with line. It's a continuous struggle. I found the farmer in a local newspaper article and Jack Black in Rolling Stone magazine.

japanese crane sketches

pen - Uchida's Le Pen - .3mm


pen - Uchida's Le Pen - .3mm

I finally found my Le Pen!

These sketches were done on office note pads while on the phone discussing web edits with the 4th floor engineers. I guess you can say I have had cranes on my mind lately.

Found In San Francisco with a Camera Phone

Nash Metropolitan Teeny Tiny Convertible


Found in the Financial District, close to the Ferry Building Plaza.


Metal Dragonfly Sculpture


Found in a Richmond District park off Geary St.

doors to religiosity

Views from a camera phone, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, 1:30 a.m.

sunken red door

slightly overexposed light with a strange diagonal spread

doors of paradise

ironically, though security bars...

doors of paradise

... bars with added spikes.

Read more about the San Francisco Grace Cathedral's Bible in Bronze.

San Francisco with a camera phone

Transamerica Pyramid

Taken at the base on the corner of Clay and Montgomery

Empire Park

Taken at the entrance to Empire Park on Commercial Street

A lonely, imprisoned iMac

Taken in an office basement cage in the Financial District

San Bruno Mountain Fire

View from my apartment, South San Francisco, CA. (8:50 pm)

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mini thor

pencil - derwent graphic 4b

cyber cowboy

pencils - Derwent Graphic 2b,4b 6b and Faber-Castell Aquarelle
Westworld's Revenge

alternative fuel vehicle

pen: pilot P-500 extra fine and markers: prismacolors cool greys
An alternative fuel vehicle for the San Francisco gas consumers suffering $3.50+ a gallon.

captain starkist

pencils - Derwent Graphic 2b,4b 6b and Faber-Castell Aquarelle
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feeling bearish

graphite pencil - derwent graphic - 6b, 4b, 2b
Feeling Bearish
Following Wall Street today can be as stressful as following the news coming out of Washington DC. With the talk of a "housing bubble" bursting at the seams, the thought of a correction to an inflated market sounds enticing. To a hesitant bear living in the Bay Area California, I have witnessed the exponential rise of fake equity the last five years. I feel a bit of resolve having been sitting on the sidelines watching this slow moving train wreck just now starting to unfold.

I also feel sorry for those families who got duped and swindled into signing those creative loans. I hope they find some kind of resolve. As for the speculators and flippers, shame on them for trying to make a quick buck. The greedy are going to get their comeuppance, just you wait and see.

bear bull study sketch


initial bear study sketch

figure studies

charcoal

pencils - sanguine and white on seashell flecked paper

charcoal