Bacon-kid, BACONKID!

I have been toying around with this idea of Bacon-kid for some time now... since my college days. I am sure I have some really crummy sketches of Bacon-kid in one of my sketchbooks back in my Berkeley Public Storage. Only recently had the concept solidified, and this design followed suit. I have a few short stories in the works and hope one day to produce one of them. Ren and Stimpy is a big influence on me when i consider kids cartoons. That and Dexters Laboratory. this is somewhat an extension of that influence, by way of Sponge Bob Square Pants.

However, the characters in Bacon-Kid are not fundamentally identical to any of those previous characters, and will hopefully be somewhat unique.

behold...

Bacon-Kid and Scramble-Kid...

mOldskine sketches

These are some sketches from way back in 2009. I was drawing in a moleskine sketchbook that had very thin pages, so it only made sense to draw on one page of the spread. I think you get just as much out of the newer books with heavier, yet less pages, because you can make use of the whole page spread, front and back.

I cut and past these pages together in photoshop, punching up some contrast here and there.








Again, I draw a lot of my inspiration from real people. I tend to use the subway patrons as subjects, because for the most part, their trapped in the car with me and are relatively still.

Gifted Sketches

Brooke's 8 year old niece, Cameron, is a very talented young artist. I have been pretty inspired, witnessing her talent emerge. Sometimes, we participate in drawing session when we visit NJ. Here are two sketches that were gifted to me after a couple of drawing sessions. These two sketches were made when Cameron was at the age of 7.

The first is a psycho monster inspired when we were all drawing killer robots.




The second is a portrait she made of me.



(*note: I did touch these up in photoshop a little to add contrast to the paper stock)

Moleskines... Part 1

Here are some sketches from my most recent moleskine sketchbook. These books are pretty ideal in terms of paper weight, smoothness and size.






more to come....