Brooke White from American Idol

Brook White is so freaking hot, my drawings really just make her ugly. She has a light about her and just this energy I love and her music video she has previously made is growing on me a lot. Anyway, yeah I will be voting for her whenever I watch the show.

Yea for serotonin and oxytocin!

I did a little research to find out what chemicals were involved in attraction with the opposite sex, everything from hugging all the way up to the act of sex. Here are some of the chemicals that play a part: norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin, nitric oxide, and the hormone prolactin

A lot of these play major parts in other functions as well such as sleep and maintenance of hydration through out the body. Some of the chemicals are responsible for feelings of bonding with others and much of the feelings associated with love. I find that interesting that much of how we respond to others is based off of a chemical reaction with in our bodies. Granted our actions effect how the chemicals are released but still.

Is McCain a conservative?

This is my first stab at making a political cartoon, let me know what you think because I'd like to try and get some political cartoons published.
And one more thing, does anyone else get an uneasy feeling when he smiles? It makes me uncomfortable like he is hiding something and getting away with it.

Valentines day

Yes that is my heart I am taping on. Some times I feel like I stop caring as a self defense, thanks Valentines day for reminding me of that that, sigh. On the bright side this is the first time I have attempted coloring the lines, does it look okay? I guess I just need to mess around with line coloring more to get the hang of it.

Turtle Memory

Sometimes my memory just seems to be delayed for some reason. I don't know if you can tell as it wasn't drawn with much detail but the turtle is playing solitaire on the computer.

Code names

The Book Thief

I just got done reading a book called "The Book Thief" Well actually I listened to it on audio book in my car while I delivered pizza. Rarely does a book bring up such emotion and reflects on life and love and passion for the art and literature.

The book from the perspective of Death is a look into the life of a small girl named Liesel who lives in Nazi Germany. It may seem strange to use a time period and place of such evil and yet by using art and literature Zusak is able to show that great goodness and humanity can exist in even the toughest of times.
The book in a way was a tragic one because of all the killing that went on in World War II but unlike other tragedies this book left me with a feeling of love for the characters and a sense of awe at the writing skill of Markus Zusak.
I discovered "The Book Thief because I read a different book by Zusak called "I am the messenger" which was also one of the best books I have ever read. I would highly recommend both of these books as they are pure works of art that show how beautiful life can be even in tough times.
Rarely do I see a movie where I leave it and feel wonderful feelings of emotion and when I do these often become my favorite movies. Even more rarely is when I read a book that does the same thing and "The Book Thief" is one of those books.

Life questions

The Hourly contest

I made this for the Hourly contest this year. Basically the rules are you make a comic strip about your life once every hour you are awake on Feb. 1. I started off making one with two panels and in the middle changed it to one panel per hour. It was fun but I am tired and going to bed. Oh here is the link to the Hourly comic challenge

Phantom leg vibration

Does this every happen to anyone else where it feels like your phone is vibrating and instead it's your leg muscles creating this memory phantom vibration?

Lucy and her puppet

This is another drawing from a youtube video that I like. Her name is Lucy and she is also a super cool cartoonist.

Be Happy

I have a friend who sent me a text message that said "Be happy" when I was kind of down and even though it doesn't seem like that big of a thing it was nice. I made this in response to that. I didn't use her real name but I did take her name and did kind of a code with it. Let me know if you figure out the code.

People I know

Drawings from a short film

This is art inspired from the short little film I helped make last Friday night. Amores Secretos which you can see on my most recent post before this one. My apologies to Jeff and Hannah for any ugliness I may have bestowed upon the drawings of you.

24 hour film festival contest

Short Arms

Christmas newsletter

My mom was making a photo newsletter and thought it would be fun if I made a comic strip to go along, so I made this.

Reverse sound of Lucy Knisley's "Procrastinatrix"

This song can be found at her web site

well the exact address is here
and that is the foward version. Check out her stuff she is an amazing artist!

Snow dog

Below are pictures of a snow dog I made last Saturday night. At first I had some difficultly making it and was about to give up this guy walked by and asked what I was making and I told him it was suppose to be dog peeing on a the fire hydrant and he laughed and said he really wanted to see it made. I had purpose after that and I made it. What's cool is seeing walk by and take pictures of it.

Ethan Zap the first 9

Every time I showed someone my comic strip the just started reading instead of starting from the begining and so I decided to put the first nine of the story line on one page to be able to read it better.

playing around

I was just sketching around and drew this squirrel like creature and I decided to try coloring it. It was pretty much just for fun, there wasn't any real point to it.

B.O. pizza

I work at this place called "Brick Oven Pizza" or the B.O. as some of like to call it. This comic strip is my commentary on how pizza drivers are people's best friends for about a minute until they get there food. And yes the last panel does seem a bit "fruity" but it makes me laugh so I am leaving it I don't care.

Grow

Animals evolve and who knows what they will envolve into next.

Cool boots

I found this folder on my computer which I made several years ago called "to draw" which has a bunch of photos of things I found on the internet that I wanted to draw. Since I never really drew from those photos when I made it I thought I would start today.

Caricature Posting

Masi Oka - Hiro on the Tv show 'Heroes'
Paris HiltonGeorge W. Bush
Steven Colbert
The Rock

I made these a couple weeks ago and I finally got around to posting them

Steven Spielberg

I decided I am going to try and do a daily caricature or portrait of someone, here is todays, let me know if it actually looks like Steven or not, it's okay to be honest I am trying to get better.

Nellie and Fairy from "Christmas Every Day"

Penster and the Magic Moonboots

I made this for a church event with the singles group back in the summer of 2005. It was called "The Mormies". It was for who every wanted to sumbit a short film. I tried to find someone at church who wanted to make a short film with me and no one was interested and so I created an animation. I also happened to win best in animation which is funny of course since I was the only one to have an animated short.

Raechal

This is another part of my on going series of drawing pictures of my friends this time of Raechal who I work with.

Lily Allen and Dwight from "The Office"

Quick sketch of George Clooney

I found this picture of George Clooney I liked so I drew it.

Genna

Here is another facebook illustration that I finally completed. I meant to get an illustration done for Genna back for her birthday back in May but I never thought what I was going do would be cool enough, tonight I thought I would see what I could do really quick, I'd say it turned out pretty good.

caricature artist

This past weekend I was a caricature artist for a company party for TAHITIAN NONI. I was one of six artists and we drew people for four hours, it was actually quite fun even though I was nervous at first. The cool thing was that I totally got in the zone and found myself discovering new ways of approaching my drawings that I hadn't thought of before. It helped that I was sitting next to this girl who had a really cool style and so I was able to look at how she approached the drawings and I was able to learn from her.

Runner

I like drawing people running, I'm not really sure why, maybe it's because I like to run.

Practice

I bought this book called 'Facial Expressions' which is full of people making faces, here are a couple quick sketches and my attempts at color marker which I haven't used in years and years. The bottom two sketches look like they should be saying "Gosh!"

Ethan and his dino

Ethan and his down syndrome dinosaur.

The Perspective dream

(click on comic to make it bigger)

Okay, this comic about this dream I had probably won't make sense to anyone who reads this except Alicia and Melanie. I could give an explaination but I really don't feel like it so if you want to know, ask me and I will tell you.

Amber the fairy

I was reading about fairies the other day and I learned that they are the keepers of the earth, they encourage us and delight in us being in harmony with the earth and all living creatures. When I was reading the book I kept thinking about my friend Amber because she is a vegitarian and does more than most people I know in making the earth a better place to live and so I made a picture of her as a fairy.

Unicorn promise

I helped make this in college, the animation is a bit getto but hey I think it's good for the two weeks we spent on it.

Cat and UFO

I saw art in the graphic novel "Jimmy Corrigan" that I really liked and so I sort of copied the background and wanted something to be in the forground and that is where the cat and the ufo come from.

Rocker Mike

Here is the drawing for Mike of him as a 80's rocker. I think the hardest part of this one was figuring out what to draw him as.

Warrior Princess

I made this picture for some friends of mine Sarah and Sarah. They are suppose to be Warrior Princesses and so of course I used Xena as a reference.

Multicolored Mullet

I.F. I spy

I spy a man who can talk to animals but is getting a little tired of it.