rejected illustrations

here are a few X Games illustration/designs that i had recently created that my be ready to be thrown under the bus for the sake of a new style guide that just surfaced. I'm happy with them so i wanted to show them off.

2nd Class work. i feel like i have gotten some of the rust out, but my wrist is really paying for it.

I had recently been attending modeling classes again, its been since last fall that i had the chance to get back into drawing the human body. I will be posting all my top favorites and maybe some of the horribly failed attempts at getting back into the craft. ha.

you make me feel this way

This is love illustration, about how the heart lights on fire and burns with a different fuel when its in love, blooming with freshets of foliage. This is a 3 color illustration on chipboard, faber castell aquarelle pencils and wax white. later this year, I am considering doing my first serigraph poster using this illustration.I have another blue pencil ill that i have scanned but ran out of time putting it together on the comp. Maybe i can post the other one in a few days, its bit different in subject matter.

btw i love blue pencils

heres a close up

chapter dog

found on my comp, not sure i have ever posted it anywhere, but its fitting to the weather we have been having so i thought i would plop it up here. meet the creepy jack frost, as a powerful child weather prodigy. you can click for a larger view, this was done in 2008 for some random gallery as a donated piece of art, i dont think it sold, so i told them to just keep it rather then pay for them to ship it back, maybe its keeping a dumpster mouse warm this winter. :D

found this on my desk

among other random sketches. here is one i had time to scan in.