This is a “painted” version of my original Kendra Keel sketch, using Painter IX. I started this color version of my sketch with a Wacom Intuos3, and I finished it with an Intuos4 S (a gift for my birthday).

Ninja Woman

Here’s my one of my first efforts using the suite. I’ll have to admit, there’s more life in this picture after processing it through CorelDRAW. I can’t wait to try this on some of my comics.

Tap DC: Mother Earth

Would you pay for a glass of tap water at a local restaurant? How about a dollar?

The Tap Project was started on this simple premise: for one week patrons of any participating restaurant of a sponsoring city would donate one dollar for a glass of water. This donated money would be used by UNICEF to provide clean, accessible drinking water to children around the world.

This year, Tap DC sponsored a contest to raise awareness of this event, happening during World Water Week, the week of March 22-28. This is my entry: Mother Earth, freely giving water the world. Her generosity is free; ours should be just as giving and just as selfless.

This entry, and many more like it, will be on display at Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery (located at 702 8th St., NW in Washington DC) on Tuesday, March 24 between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m.

I urge that during the World Water Week, you donate at tapproject.org or tapdc.org, or you can dine out and donate at restaurants all over Washington DC.

Your dollar can give a child clean drinking water for 40 days. Now would you pay a dollar?

“What a piece of work is man”, the cyborg contemplates its humanity. Does stripping away our humanity, distilling it down to its barest essence, make us more human, or take something away from us? What is it to be human?

I’ve always had a fascination with the man-machine hybrid, there’s something about “making up” musculature and underlying bone structure of human beings that makes it enjoyable to draw. It’s breaking the rules while staying within the rules, and making things up as you go along.

Pencil, pen and ink. Colored in Paint Shop Pro. Title from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2

Santa and Reindeer

Happy Holidays everyone! Just got done wrapping a set of gifts for my various nieces and nephews. Thought I’d pass the holiday cheer and came up with this picture.

Kendra Keel

Back to drawing one of my favorite subjects, Kendra Keel. This one I was thinking of her as an older person, hence the streak of gray hair. I also saw her as still being an adventurer and more comfortable in who she was. I also decided not to ink this particular piece just to see how my pencils would translate.