Eric Johnson

Heres a little mix of Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton. Did another Experiment with pencil drawing over pastel color.

happy accedent

I drew this in pencil as an underdrawing not knowing I had a pastel drawing underneath. The backside got some cool colors and texture. I reversed it in photoshop because it was backwards.

Ginsberg

Did a quick pastel of Alan Ginsberg. Thought about using my pen linework in my pastel drawings by blowing up small ink drawings, and preserving the line work with pastels.

Slice of Life

First assignment from this summers Illustration Academy. Goal was to focus on shape, value, and color to design a picture. no rendering, no detail. Hers my take at it.

blues talkin fix up

Here's a little fix up on this piece. I desaturated the ceiling and background colors and also brought the values closer together. Also darkened and desaturated the stage.

pastel dylan

Heres another go at the pastels, Bob Dylan, one of my favorite music peoples.

pastel city

Found this picture online somewhere and went at it with pastels. More portraits coming.

Dobro

Still playing with pastels. I love these guitars.

Playing with pastells

I decided today that I want to learn pastels, so I'm going to be doing a lot of them in my spare time. mostly portraits, but maybe other stuff. Ill try to put one out a day.

This ones of Jack Kerouac.

blues talkin

piece about using the guitar to communicate.

#28

#27 c

#27 b

first few pages of #27

Son House

Early this morning, when I knocked upon my guitar, I started listening to Son House and made a picture of him. here it is.

Summer Sketchbooks

Been away from this blog for a while now, Im almost done scanning in all the sketchbook stuff I did over the summer. They will be up soon as well as the paintings/illustrations from the summer.