On the 10th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

Hi folks!  My friend Lisa and I are doing the 12 Days of Christmas over on our sketchblog My Gecko is Sick.  Alternating posts daily, with Lisa having started.  Come check it out!

The kind folks over at The Artfuls posted an interview I did with them.  Many thanks to Tony!

Check it out here.

Something I’ve been working on for fun while I’m in between projects.

Living near the ocean is real treasure.  One day after spending hours exploring and peering into tide pools, I came home to discover my hair still smelled of the sea.

My good friend Lisa and I decided to get together and start a sketchblog!

http://mygeckoissick.tumblr.com/

As she prefaced in her own blog: “We decided to make it a little area for sketching improv, where we would each contribute a sketch on the same theme, with each sketch and concept completed in an hour.

Since we both have a fondness for awkward situations and non sequiturs, we decided to embrace that in the name of the blog and our first sketch topic “At the wrong party.” “

Last Saturday night I made it out to a figure drawing event put on by Dr. Sketchy’s where the models dress up in all kinds of outrageously fun costumes.  This evening we had a sexy burlesque clown, and she was a fantastic and tasteful model. I was joined by my lovely artist friends, Lisa and Julia, and Julia’s über-talented boyfriend, Jamie Baker.

Here are a couple 20 minute poses and a 40 minute pose. Having taken Alex Woo’s gesture class, I wanted to try to push the poses in certain instances.  I also wanted to play around with my new Pentel pocket brush pen!

A couple children’s books that I’d been working on are finally out in print.  It was pretty exciting to get a chance to work on two of the great classic Greek myths - Odysseus and the Cyclops, and Jason and the Argonauts.  Here are the covers.  I’ll share some interiors in some future posts!

The world of Pheon, an alternate-reality game sponsored by the Smithsonian, was once a pure world where the balance of science, art, and technology triumphed in supreme unity and clarity.  However, when humans were allowed to enter Pheon and mingle amongst it’s perfection, a select few Pheonites were not so pleased.

In an arrogant bid to lock out his perfect world to humans, the young and handsome General Farben Vidar cast a spell.  But the spell backfired and instead hobbled the world of Pheon, splitting it into factions of warring Knaves and Staves.  The spell also had the effect of mutilating the once beautiful and perfect face of General Vidar.

Pheon can only be healed with your help through gameplay (yes! start here!), and through the wily determination of Hans Ørsted, Christine de Pizan, and the unlikey young hero Eddie Wriggle.

Here are avatars I created for these characters.

Farben Vidar

Hans Ørsted

Christine de Pizan

Eddie Wriggle