Wild & Organic

The fabrication of language into form. I think it almost looks outer-spacey.



I like it. It's kinda sexy, I wouldn’t mind cooking with it.

i ♥ 2 ∞...

My wacom tablet is the shiznit! ∞

doodle doodle dooo.

I finally got a chance to play with my new Wacom tablet. It's kinda irritating, cause I thought I'd instinctively know how it functions, but it's like re-learning how to use a pen, it being digital and all.

doodle doodle dooo. Just doodle. Something good might come out. Sometimes it's nice to just shuffle all the music and see what comes up. Good background noise always keeps work interesting.

I found this pretty cool website where you can sketch online. It records doodles and turns it into html codes, like magic =P. I recently saw a pretty good film.


"...We weigh ourselves down until we can't even move, and make no mistake, moving is living."

-Character of Ryan Bingham acted by George Clooney via Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, screen writers of the movie, Up in the Air.

I say Amen to that quote, it's all about living, and moving. and following dreams.

Moving right along, I was pretty pissed about this next one. The program doesn't come without kinks. It wouldn't let me save it so I had to print-screen and saved a jpg on photoshop, such a shame cause it was a lengthy process.

Come Away with Me is not a bad album. She paints pretty well with her voice.
She sounds so personal, like she's singing to me. hmmm.



♫ It's not the pale moon that excites me
♫ That thrills and delights me, oh no
♫ It's just the nearness of you

-As sung by Norah Jones

Tickling my brain

This used to be of the utmost importance, then I bought some contacts.


I sometimes have this reaction when I am listening to kids or the geriatric
talk on and on about life. I can't help but listen because I don't want to be
rude, but on few occasions I get lucky and my brain starts to feel this thing.

This hat conceals my incorrect hair. It's a good catalyst for brain tickles.
 

It feels like motion. But a chemical reaction, perhaps. I get happy. It might
be because I get amused at how such one sided convos can be prolonged
with so much conviction. My brain starts to do the Shaka and I half-smile.


It's kinda like eating Pop Rocks, but more gentle and whimsical. The venue
is not the mouth but somewhere in the mind. It feels like it's shape-shifting.

It'll be cool if my Nikes took me there, unfortunately I can't get there by foot.


I reckon though, that it's strikingly magnificent that this feeling is attainable
without listening to neither the young nor the old. All I need is to play with my
markers and I am transported to that whimsical zone. It's quite the phantom.

And all this talk makes me want to eat a burger, a luscious quarter-pounder.


These sketch renders range from 5 minutes to 1 hour, click here for more.

Prismacolor me good.

It probably took at least thirty hours, if not more, to complete the following drawings. I presume by virtue of time spent, they have got to be on this blog.

I think I had OCD. I used to make sure that all my markers had their correct caps. And they had to be in the right placement, all the cool greys separated from the warm greys, in order of their grey percentages. But now I am over it.


Maybe I'll be John Hancock (the building not the person) for Halloween. It's probably easy enough to make, just some card board and a lil spray paint.


One-point perspective. Worm's Eye View, 2006. Bird's Eye View, 2005-2006.
Pen and ink, warm and cool grey markers on 22"x28" white poster boards.

The Garden of Sustainable Delights

Some sketches to ponder. The compositions kinda remind me of Bosch's
famous painting. But instead of earthly pleasures and contempt, the main
focus is sustainability. Gotta embrace the inner responsible designer!

If you're just joining, Ecopala is a series of Hawaiian inspired products that
are made from waste opportunities. Opala is the Hawaiian word for trash.

The sketches below conceptually uses materials such as used fishing nets,
coconut shells, rubber tires, flotation noodles, beach mats, etc. I had fun
coming up with these drawings, so best enjoy yourself while you look.

Cessation Sketches

This has been a Holy batman I quit smoking after 11 years! kinda season. Altoids got a little bit richer, and my moleskin notebook is filled with all kinds
of let this craving pass kinda sketches. Thanks bronchitis. Two months today!

Dots. Lots of dots. A little OCD but it sure is an effective nicotine counter-fix.



My last unopened carton of cigarettes is now hanging on my bedroom wall.



So hard, but so had to do it. You know you gotta when you gotta...



Some are private, others not so. Click here to see those.

My local Starbucks

Irving Park and Kostner