
This is a collection of drawings and paintings I've done over the years. Not all of them are finished.
(Click on an image to see a larger version.)
I was playing with some cool features of a video capture card in 1994,
and came up with this. I finally got around to putting it up.
I cropped my eye from a photograph, and performed various transformations
on it. I've collected some of them on one page, which makes them look
a little Warhol-like. You can see by clicking the image. (January 1997)
I drew this candle when I was toying with a paint program in mid-1996.
It looks interesting, so I've kept it and I'm placing it in this
collection.
I was angry one day and took my frustrations out on a paint program.
This is the result.
This one is just a doodle, something like the one below... only a little
less random.
I just sat down and started doodling... this is what came out. Think of
it as brain drool.
My daughter likes Wallace and Gromit,
so I drew a picture of Gromit for her.
I drew this in 1995. I originally drew something very similar several
years before, but it was lost when I tried to have it scanned, so I
recreated it in a paint program.
This one was heavily damaged by jpeg compression, so I touched it up
after scanning it. It's pretty close to the original now. It's
probably from 1989 or 1990.
I drew this in 1990 or 1991. I pulled a page from a magazine, ripped
it up, and drew it (I chose this particular page because I liked the
lighting and simplicity, but you're welcome to assign a deeper meaning).
The idea of drawing a torn up page was not my own, unfortunately.
It was an assignment in an art class.
I took a figure drawing class so I could stop drawing decapitated/floating
heads. I improved enough that I'm willing to show some of my work.
I didn't finish drawing the model before he changed positions. I was
avoiding his feet -- feet are tough. Maybe I should take a foot drawing
class next. (Unfinished.)
This is also from the figure drawing class. The model for both of these
was Sam Hart.
(Unfinished.)
This one was turning out well, but I was drawing it from a borrowed book
which I had to return. (Unfinished.)
I drew this in my figure drawing class too. I was having a tough time
drawing her body (probably because I was sexually repressed), so I just
drew her face. Between her lack of a body and Sam's missing feet,
I'm noticing a disturbing pattern.
I don't remember when I drew this. I think it was 1988 or 1989.
I really just intended to draw my hand as practice, but it looked good
so I tried to turn it into a finished drawing. I scanned it crooked.
(as you can see on the horizon).
This is supposed to be Winston Churchill. I drew this while I was
taking the figure drawing class. I'm not quite satisfied with the way
it turned out (it's skewed because I didn't account for the perspective
of the paper), but I think it's worth showing.
I drew this in Jr. High. I thought monsters were "cool".
Even monsters with goofy teeth and no tongues, apparently.
This is just another doodle. It was drawn on a very small piece of paper,
so it's a little blurry. (It's hard to draw detail that small.)
Bodies are tricky to draw (people tend to notice the arms hanging down
to the ankles), so I've drawn a lot of heads without bodies. This one
is from around 1990 (I think). I neglected to sign and date it (like
many of the others).
This is what happened when I smashed my face against a flatbed
scanner and moved around.
Jamie Zawinski
has a cool looking face scan on his page, along with a lot of other
entertaining stuff.
I did this at work (it beats a nervous breakdown). I was writing video
capture software at the time, so I captured it.