Wednesday, July 04, 2012

july 4th

happy independence day! 

p.s. Check out the animation I've been working on all last month:

11-second club june 2012 final from gene hole on Vimeo.


https://vimeo.com/44933355

Thursday, March 01, 2012

dali hat

here's a non-sensical doodle I did yesterday...
when I am just aimlessly doodling, I tend to just draw random things, upon which I build, as each idea inspires a new thought, as below:
or sometimes I have several unrelated images filling a page, which I may try to connect by creating a unifying landscape tying them together, as with this scribble from the back cover of an old notebook from school (spanish class, I think):
more examples of progressively-random doodles:

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Bogie! Bogie!



I did 2 pages as part of a community comic book project a while ago, here are the results. Be sure to read the whole thing here!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

sunday sketches

Here's some of the sketches that fall out of my pencils, pens, markers, or whatever utensil I have handy while taking in sermons on a Sunday morning. a few are cheaters as they actually were drawn at a Wednesday night Bible study.
this one actually was done over a series of 2 sundays and a wednesday night:


and a landscape done with markers on an odd glossy-type paper that doesn't absorb the ink right away, allowing the markers to smudge and blend with one another, which leads to some interesting possibilities for marker-coloring techniques:
an aborted attempt at combining colored pencils and marker:

just doodling around led to this wolfish sketch:
an assortment of cats:
a portrait done on the sly during a bible study:

a sketch of my nephew done this summer:several quick caricatures done in bible study:

and a fancy marker-and-ink caricature done at a coffeehouse on that glossy marker paper:
I started to do the side-men but ran out of time before I had to leave:
and an assortment of non-representational experiments in texture, form , color, etc:


well, mostly non-representational: