Category: Pencils and Rubs

Bar Sketches: A Push. 100A

Bars are the best place to sketch. The energy is music.

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Anatomy Sketches: Figuring Out How the Human Body Works

Bought Truth an anatomy book a few years ago and I’m not sure she spent much time looking at it. I didn’t want to let it go to waste. So I’ve been reading, studying and sketching from the samples. My second stint as a “fine […]

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Mark of the Tec 9

The Intratec TEC-9, is a semi-automatic pistol. It was developed by Intratec, an American subsidiary of the Swedish firearms manufacturer Interdynamic AB. Introduced in 1984, the TEC-9 was made of inexpensive molded polymers and a mixture of stamped and milled steel parts. The simple design […]

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Museum Sketches: A quiet day in the spring

As of 2021, our studio is in the heart of downtown DC, near all of the museums and government buildings. Because of this, I have been taking some trips over to see some of the museums which I haven’t been to in a really long […]

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Finding Harmony: Original Storyboards (2005)

It was 2005 and I had just finished my first draft of my first feature length screenplay, Finding Harmony. I had also just set up shop with my very own studio on Illinois Avenue in Northwest DC. I had several people read the script and […]

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City Kid: Colored Pencil on Paper (1995)

Every time a take a trip to the basement, I discover something from the past. This was hidden, taped on a random piece of foam-core I was about to throw in the trash. Glad I flipped it over. I was learning how to use colored-pencils […]

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The Eagle’s Evil Grip (1996)

I did this colored-pencil on paper drawing in 1996 while in prison. It is my most memorable piece for sure during my stay. I had just read several American history books and was dissecting the Reagan era and this is what I came up with. […]

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Colored Pencil on Paper: Inner City Red, White, and Blues (1996)

It was 1996 and I was in prison working diligently with my assortment of colored-pencils I purchased online through Dick-Blick. Some of my work was a critique of my life and the immediate world around me. America is a violent country, but I found the […]

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Sketches: Some Human Form (10/2013)

Mug: an entity that embodies the fluid importance of the idea one desires to express. Example: “I was mad a mug when I found out he stole my bike”. I was frustrated like a mug when I did these sketches. I was trying to find […]

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Sketches of Excel (2004)

Found this sheet of random emotive sketches of Excel I did in 2004. More of the same wasting of time but doing something meaningful. I swear I won’t put all my random sketches on this blog/site thing. There’d be thousands of entries no one would […]

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