Pencil Test

I bought a few new pencils today to try out. This one’s a 20 minute drawing from photo reference using a Prismacolor warm gray 50%. In my defense, since I think this is a rotten piece, 20 minutes is deceptive, since I was also watching The Simpsons at the same time. It also shows [...]

Soon I Will Run Out of Scans to Pick Up the Slack

detail of a larger work

I thought I was dead, but then the world came back into focus, first sound, then feeling, then thought, then vision. I felt sick and sat in my car for half an hour before driving home again.

Backs without a Face

When I was a little kid, I saw an awful lot of backs. [...]

Headless

Torsos sell us perfume, gym memberships, clothes, cigarettes, and lifestyles. When they’re ripped, with clear skin, they draw our focus. They are anonymous and safe. They fill us with desire, but only in the abstract. They are not real. That is, without a face there isn’t a human identity to relate to. No identity, [...]

Make Yourself Look Big

This one’s the sketch for a high school’s logo.

Y.E.T.A.N.O.T.H.E.R. Pratt, Not Out but Dreadfully Hurt

Man, if that doesn’t constitute an obscure Python reference, I don’t know what.

This one is reminiscent of the bot from Nick Park’s A Grand Day Out. Different enough, though, I suppose.

Oh, Dear, Not another One

This one’s fun [...]

Still Believing

With Nothing to Prove, Will You Be My Honey?

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Bits and Bots

This is a concept for a side project. Don’t yell at me! Ideas come unbidden, and I can’t very well let them just languish or disappear. No one knows better than I that I have precious little time to spend on outside ventures besides O’Shea. It’s coming, it’s coming.