Monday, September 13, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Painter sketch


It has been too long since I have posted.... guess I was out to lunch all summer. Here is a sunday afternoon quick sketch... that turned into more of a finished study. Hadn't used painter for awhile.... so I thought I'd take a stab at it..
Sunday, June 13, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Figure Drawing

Here's a sketch from a figure drawing session a couple of weeks ago.
Sunday, May 2, 2010

PostHeaderIcon India Man

Submitted this painting yesterday to the Wet Paint fundraiser for the VCCA. The request was to make a piece of artwork within a 24 hr period. This is what I came up with after getting inspired by a photo taken by Chris Mayne.

I only thought of taking the picture at the last minute with the ole iphone.... so the picture quality isn't the best. I did here that the painting sold last night at the auction. Pretty stoked about that!
Monday, April 19, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Snoozer

Here's a sketch for Monday.
Sunday, April 11, 2010

PostHeaderIcon A Lion

Here's a lion I had half finished for a while.... so I finished it up tonight. It is a bit bigger than the other watercolors I have been doing, 3"x 5"
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Conglomoration

A strangely proportioned odd mix of costume French Spaniard type guy I found in my sketchbook from a while back. Something new to look at anyway.
Saturday, March 27, 2010

PostHeaderIcon T-shirts again

Trying these designs out at a new t-shirt design house called teextile. Go check them out and throw me a vote and a comment by following the monkey link!!


Monkey and Ray Gun on teextile Monkey and Ray Gun
BY n8main

Friday, March 26, 2010

PostHeaderIcon A Bit of Caricature?

Was looking to practice some caricature a while back and randomly picked a picture of Tony Pastor out of a book of Swing era musicians. This is the sketch that I came up with.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Monster on the Hunt

Thought I'd give you a peak of a spread from our story that I told you about in the previous post. Here he is deep in the jungle on the hunt.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Come on Monster!!

This weekend we attended The Festival of the Book here in Charlottesville. We took a dummy version of our book with us in hopes of getting some feedback on it. The last conference we went to was a panel of book agents mainly from New York. We got a lot of good information on the do's and don'ts of getting an agent. At the end there was an opportunity to show the book to an agent and she asked if she could take it with her to show her partner who handles most of the children's books!!! So we are pretty excited about that:)
Friday, March 19, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Little Beastie

Today we have a couple of sketches of the rare and illusive Couch Imp. He is ravenously feasting on microwave popcorn while viewing a favorite cartoon.

A good sport to say the least he says "You can draw me if you want to dad" after which he strikes a mighty pose that he holds for a maximum of 30 minutes. Then he jumps down to come over and see the few lines I have put on the page and says "Thats not very good" and then continues to tell me how I can improve my drawing by making it look more like him and adding a sword and a monster at least.

I was lucky enough to stitch together a couple of 1-2 min poses he held in his zombie like state of viewing the mind numbing picture machine achieving this result. A fun model to say the least:)
Thursday, March 18, 2010

PostHeaderIcon In Blue


Here is  a view of the rare antarctic Ice Maiden to wish winter farewell. Glad spring is coming! Get her for your very own wall to keep you cool during the coming summer months at OrigN8
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Smile for the Birdie

Here's one messing with the crowquill.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

PostHeaderIcon GQ??

Been trying to crank out some more watercolor and ink illo's among a thousand other things. Here's one that can be found at the Orignate shop. This guy is all business.
Monday, March 15, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Something's Fishy

Saturday, March 13, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Black Socks

This sketch was inspired by a photo taken by Chris Mayne. Chris and Carole just got back from India and have been sharing their wonderful pictures with us. Hope to draw more from them. Check out Chris's bird photography here www.chrismayne.net. Thanks for the inspiration guys!
Friday, March 12, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Chiustream

Here is my creepy cute example for tonight's Chiustream/Sketchaholics contest.
Monday, March 8, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Figure Drawing

Been going to figure drawing sessions in Robert Bricker's studio at McGuffey Art Center here in Charlottesville. Here are a couple of 7 min gesture drawings from last week.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Oddball

Here is a goofy bird I painted about a month ago. I was using acrylic paint on a small wooden board which was an experiment as I hadn't really used acrylic before. I don't know if it was the quality of the paint or just the nature of acrylic, but I don't think I will be making acrylic my main medium any time soon.
Friday, February 26, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Chiustream

Chiustream creature was a little slow tonight.... got a late start and didn't have anything to turn in on time. This was the result shortly after the cutoff though.

It was supposed to be a 2000 year old creature and it looks like I came up with a fat bearded cow with a face like a dumptruck... but there is always next time right??

PostHeaderIcon Study

Here is another study I did a while back. A Gil Elvgrin piece in marker.... experimenting again...

PostHeaderIcon The Caterpillar

Did this for an online sketching contest called sketchoholics. Think I might refine it a bit more and make a print out of it.
Monday, February 22, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Study

Did a little Leyendecker study the other day.... not so much a strict copy. Just trying to get a feel for the way he makes his marks. Some areas are more successful than others.
Monday, February 8, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Father & Son Collaboration

Turns out Cyrus is a pretty talented artist at the tender age of four. Here's a painting we collaborated on today. I painted it, and he inked it.
Saturday, January 30, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Vote On the Dragon today!!

Bacon & Eggs - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More
Vote For Me & You Can Win, too! 
Win a print of Bacon & Eggs! All you have to do is visit threadless, leave a comment and cast a vote of $5, then return here and tell me that you voted! I'll choose a lucky winner from the blog comments next week, and breakfast for your wall will be in the mail by Wednesday. 
Thanks for your support!
N8
Friday, January 29, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Threadless T-shirt Design AGAIN!!!

T-shirts.... Get your RED hot t shirts here!!

Go vote now, you know you want to!!

Lizard in Space - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More
Friday, January 22, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Vote on another design here!

Not a Banana! - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More
Thursday, January 14, 2010

PostHeaderIcon A post!


Here is a sketch... for sketching sake...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Threadless T-shirt Designs

Help me get my t-shirt designs accepted at Threadless by following these links and voting on my designs. All you have to do is create a login and then you can vote on all the designs submitted.

Brains Rock! - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More


Wildlife Exploited - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More


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