Sketches from the Subways... And other random places an NYC

So, as I expected when I was first thinking about moving to New York, there is no shortage of people to draw and time to practice. With most of the transit across the city being via the subways, I've been soaking up as much of it as possible. I've yet to let my sketchbook lead me all over the city on a drawing fest, but I think I will have to buy another sketchbook and dedicate that sketchbook to days like that because honestly in the 4th week of me living here, I've nearly blown through a semi-used sketchbook already. Perhaps this isn't a big deal to some of my really savvy illustration friends, but for someone that has just rediscovered his love of drawing, that's astounding. It just makes me wanna buy more sketchbooks and let my hand go.

But enough with the gushing over my amorous affection towards life right now. Here's some of the stuff that I've been doing.

I think I'm finally getting over being afraid of making the "wrong" lines. Hopefully with more practice I'll be able to start seeing what I can really do.

Bed-Stuy Do or Die

WHOA! I can't believe it's already been three weeks since I've moved to New York... Give or take. I've been feel mighty, mighty inspired as of lately. The amount of drawing I've been doing is incredible. Being in such a big city like New York has definitely got me working on all cylinders. I'll be updating this weekend with plenty of pictures from my sketchbook. So many characters to draw in this subways. I feel like my hands really coming alive. Which comes to the reason of this blog post!

I finished my painting of Mistress Missy. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. It was a good learning experience and a good start into get myself back into digital painting. I'm really doing my best to understand how to use color properly and how to really set the mood for a painting. I think the only way I'm going to get better is to make some bold choices and ride them all the way through. I'm really learning to accept the "mistakes".

This is just a preview of a much larger concept painting that I'm making. First of many airship concepts that I'll be making. I had a compulsion to start this one night and so I did. It was basically an exploration painting to try and dig out this story that my buddy Miguel Lantigua have been conceptualizing. More on that in the future.

That's it for this update. Stay tuned for some sketchbook pages this weekend!