Nephite Haberdasher Lady

"Haberdashery" (defn) 1.  A rather fun word to say
                                     2.  The business of selling "small articles for sewing, such as buttons . . ." link

Dichotomy

Otherwise Entitled "The Great and Spaceship Building" lol

Ok, I got a wild hair and thought I might do a "sci-fi/futuristic" interpretation of a Book of Mormon story :) This is "Lehi's Vision of the Tree of Life" (which the curios reader may find online for free here), if it had been written in a parallel universe by Isaac Asimov.

This was my final for 2d Design last semester, which is ironic because the piece includes some decidedly 3d elements.  The faces, rod, and arm are Nextengine 3d scans of my face, arm, and a dowel, then incorporated into the final image.  The Spaceship in the background (representing the great and spacious building) is partially painted, but mainly cobbled together from pictures I've taken of Las Vegas Casinos and LaVelle Edwards Stadium at BYU (the Vegas pictures were from a Dinosaur conference for work, I wasn't there gambling lol).  Since the Great and Spacious Building represents wickedness in the vision, I thought it would be appropriate for them to have an open Colosseum on the ship's deck for futuristic sci-fi gladiator matches. Hence the football stadium.  No offense, BYU ;)

Hip Wal-Mart Guy

A quick sketch from the Friday before last, on a Wal-Mart sketchcrawl with my buddies Kendall and Mitch.  Wal-Mart is the best place :)

Poor gangsta . . . .

Yay finishing a 150 page sketchbook in 3-ish weeks!  I think I'm addicted . . . sketched this guy at the Rapid City Mall over Christmas Break. Poor gangsta. He was having trouble keeping up with his homies . . . .

Speedpaint: Flight

Tonight I was driving home and saw a really cool moon out the window of my car. It was a green light, but I stopped and sketched it lol. This is the resulting speedpainting based on the sketch, which I did when I got home.

At first it was just the moon and the clouds, but the composition was lacking. I decided to turn it into a story from the Book of Mormon, the escape of Alma and his people from the Wicked Priests of Amulon (Full story free online at [link] starting in verse 8)

Kinda Sketchy . . . .

Cap'n Bill Wheedles: Revamp

Cap'n Bill is a character from L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz.  This is a complete redo of a previous design, which the morbidly curious reader may find here

The idea was basically to start from the ground up and create a more dignified character, still with a goofy edge, but someone you could imagine telling epic tales of his adventures on the High Seas.  Last time, the peg leg was audaciously prominent, but this time is understated and partially obscured.  I hoped to show by this the captain's tendency to play down his own wounds and woes, focusing on the needs of others.

Road Trip!

This was a Christmas Present from my amazing sister, Sarah (Plug!) who is a very talented comic book artist.

Beyond that, it is a true story.  We drove from BYU Provo to our Mom's house in Colorado in record time.  As in, we've applied for a spot in the Guinness book for the longest temporal interval between the two said points.  We turned what should have been an 8-hour trip into a 25 hour adventure with an overnight at Motel-6  :)  In our defense, individually, we are somewhat competent.  We're just too good of buddies to travel intelligently together . . . at least to any fixed destination.  But hey, it was fun :)

Merry Christmas from Santana Claus! waka waka P)

Merry Christmas all!

This was a Christmas Present for my friend Gary Mulder, audio expert and former professional cyclist. Here is his Website for all you musical types, he makes high end audio equipment for bands all over the world.

Lol this one had its genesis in a Christmas present from my Mom.  She gave my sister and a tub full of amazing old CDs that we've been geeking out about for the last 24 hours lol.  Among these were several Santana CDs, and it being Christmas time . . . andyways.  The word association was inevitable.  I apologize for the "Pun"-ishment . . . wakawaka ;)

Speedpaint: Horseman

This was a speedpainting from entirely too late last night, about 2 hours :)  Most of it is from my head, though I looked briefly at a couple of horse paintings.  Lol i need to learn horse anatomy

The basic idea is it's a Nephite horseman being hit by an arrow at the battle of Jershon.  It's one of the sadder stories in the Book of Mormon, but also one of the most inspiring.  In a supreme act of brotherly love, vast numbers of Nephite soldiers died in battle, defending their former enemies. (http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/28?lang=eng)