Author Archives: robert

pen – pilot p-500 A quick little doodle while waiting for our meeting to start.

digital pencil – autodesk sketchbook pro His first encounter with the alien mech.

digital pencils Based on last weeks thumbnail sketches, this is my first landscape sketch using 2b and 6b pencils in corel painter.

pen on textured paper Landscape thumbnail studies. Next step… digital painting. (Totally inspired by Marco Bucci’s iTouch paintings!)

digital – autodesk sketchbook pro A new year, a new “restart” for more sketches! While I eagerly await the Apple Tablet, I’m warming up my sketching muscles with some digital drawings.

Afghan Farmer sketch 1 pen – pilot p-500 Afghan Farmer sketch 2 pen – pilot p-500 Jack Black sketch (unintentionally channeling Stanley Kubrick) pen – pilot p-500 I’ve been trying to do more sketching these days. Tonight I wanted to … Continue reading →

pen – Uchida’s Le Pen – .3mm pen – Uchida’s Le Pen – .3mm I finally found my Le Pen! These sketches were done on office note pads while on the phone discussing web edits with the 4th floor engineers. … Continue reading →

Barack Obama the Savior sketchbook quickie – 10 minutes derwent graphite – 2b only

pencil – derwent graphic 4b

pencils – Derwent Graphic 2b,4b 6b and Faber-Castell Aquarelle Westworld’s Revenge

pen: pilot P-500 extra fine and markers: prismacolors cool greys An alternative fuel vehicle for the San Francisco gas consumers suffering $3.50+ a gallon.

pencils – Derwent Graphic 2b,4b 6b and Faber-Castell Aquarelle illustrationfriday.com

charcoal pencils – sanguine and white on seashell flecked paper charcoal

digital – corel painter and adobe photoshop Topic: Suit – illustrationfriday.com Running late for his job interview, Mr. Slowski took the expressway through underground utility pipes. While saving his suit from water, a fellow commuter decided to hitch a ride.

pen: pilot P-500 and markers: prismacolors cool greys Epic Battle concept – original post: March 2006 Almost two months of crazy work deadlines and recouping by traveling to the East Coast to visit family and friends, is to me, time … Continue reading →

digital – adobe illustrator

pencil – derwent graphic 4b; digital color – photoshop

graphite – Faber-Castell Grip 2001 2b / Aquarelle finale

graphite – Faber-Castell Grip 2001 2b / Aquarelle part 3 – the surprise turns to disbelief…

graphite – Faber-Castell Grip 2001 2b / Aquarelle part 2 – the distraction turns to surprise…

graphite – Derwent Graphic 4b The alien is a bit distracted by the sprouting flower. As you can see, he’d rather investigate than complete his mission:

digital painting – Corel Painter This is one of the coolest Smurf figures I found at a local toy shop, the Sausalito Ferry Company Gift Store. Not to be outdone, the other week I found a Frankenstein Smurf at Kar’ikter … Continue reading →

graphite – Derwent Graphic – 2b, Pilot – P-500, Prismacolor Greys Over a three week period (spread out from Oct ’06 thru Jan ’07) I would sketch this section of the Caltrain Station at San Carlos a little bit at … Continue reading →

pen in sketchbook – pilot p-500 extra fine This week’s topic for Illustration Friday is Mask. The other night, I had this dream of a masked man with an epee. Today, I continued the dream during my morning break at … Continue reading →

digital painting – corel painter This weeks’ Illustration Friday topic is “MIGHT”. Here are some additional rambling sketches for the topic, done with a Berol Verithin Sky Blue 740.5 blue pencil I found deep in my pencil case:

derwent graphite 4b – pilot drawing DR pigment ink – faber-castell art grip color pencils It’s been almost exactly 1 year and 6 months since I quit smoking. Even though I believe it was one of the best decisions I … Continue reading →

digital painting – Corel Painter Back in March of 2006, I came up with some concepts for a weekly sketch group topic Evolution. The original idea I had was how fish would eventually evolve into flying creatures. I believe Da … Continue reading →

This time of year, one should be careful what they advertise. digital illustration – Corel Painter This is my second contribution to the Illustration Friday site.

digital painting – corel painter. concept pen sketch on blue steno pad. Now that work has slowed down a bit and my freelance gigs are all completed, I had some time to play more with Painter. I based this sketch … Continue reading →

My first submission to the Illustration Friday site. Sketched with Derwent graphite 4b, Prismacolor greys and thin lines with my friend, Mr. Pilot P-500. I’ve been struggling with coloring the Mariachi sketch in Painter. I’ll chip away at it more … Continue reading →

Several weeks ago, Dan Segarra’s AM sketch topic of the week was “Mariachi”. I whipped out some thumbnail sketches which evolved into this. I never posted it because it was stuck as a bookmark between the pages of Al Gore’s … Continue reading →

This is my first attempt at coloring with Corel Painter. I wanted to take this application for a spin, figure out the dense interface and play around with the pens and brushes. I’ve always wanted to try it, but I … Continue reading →

Inspired while watching Kill Bill, Volume 1. It’s been a while… the cpu/scanner was outta commission because of a BIOS error. I finally fixed it… after not knowing what the heck was going on. Oh wells… In addition to more … Continue reading →

I was in the city today and had some time to walk around the pier 39 area. rough sketch – 60 seconds – 2″x2″ detailed sketch – 30 minutes – 7″x5″Click here for the 900px wide version.

I really don’t know why, but lately I have been dreaming about the balloon that got away when I was 5 years old. My dad was driving us home from McDonalds in his 1975 Volkswagon Beetle. I was a happy … Continue reading →

Sketching on a small canvas, waiting for my doctor to arrive at Kaiser. Here’s a detail of the Japanese Maple outside my window. Since it has small foliage, I had to squint to capture the shape thru the contrast of … Continue reading →

Whenever I receive a “courtesy call” during dinner or at 9:00am Satuday mornings from a bank or credit card company asking me to buy into one of their useless products, I am always curious what the person on the other … Continue reading →

mingus thelonious coltrane billie getz louis ella miles These were the table names and cards for our wedding.

2nd in the mad scientist series.See the first one here: subdued mad scientist

I’ve been sketching a bunch lately. It’s very therapeutic!This is a quickie while waiting to depart on the train.

We just got back from her company’s end of the summer camp get-together at 330 Ritch Street in the city. Since I don’t drink anymore, I found another use for my table napkin… sketchin’! His name is Jessie and he … Continue reading →