After the Golden Week tour I planned to stay in Tokyo for a while, but had no real plans on where to stay. I put in a few last minute requests for couchsurfing and Byard from New Zealand, who has been living in Japan for the last 10 years, answered to say yes. We set [...]

This is my second Burning Man experience and it feels much different than the first time. I don’t know if it is because I have already been exposed to all of the excitement before, if there is just a different energy in the air, or people around seem to be more withdrawn this year.

January 20th, 2010 – A birthday drawing for Briana. She wanted a purple soccer ball, with blue flames (she said she told me this, but I didn’t hear ) So instead I drew a blue and purple soccer ball, with regular flames. Opps!

February 22nd, 2010 – For Aleah’s 11th birthday, she picked an old picture of herself holding Neko. Although her birthday isn’t until August, I needed to get started on this early since I won’t be here for the 3 months right up to her birthday. I really like how it turned out.

January 4th, 2009 – Another drawing out of my animal book. It’s where I go for inspiration. This African Moon Moth is from a small photo where the moth has just hatched and it’s wings are just finished drying out.

September 18th, 2008 – This was drawn from a real object instead of a picture, which requires a bit more interpretation of the subtle light shades and proportions. It was a good subject to draw as the colors and textures are fairly simple.

October 10th, 2008 – It’s been another spell since my last drawing, but a water brother** of mine wanted to draw with me, so I asked her to pick a subject. She chose the Giraffes from an animal book of mine and I started drawing… ** (If you are unfamiliar with the reference it is [...]

July 28th, 2008 – Another birthday drawing for Aleah. Knowing what I was going to do for her birthday, she asked that I draw her a picture of Niko. Well at first she had about 5 other suggestions that changed each time she mentioned it, but finally settled on her cat. She didn’t however know [...]

March 14th, 2008 – Finding something to draw when you’re not really in the mood can be difficult. My daughters again wanted me to draw with them, so I randomly picked out a quarter and thought it would be interesting to sketch.

January 20th, 2008 – It’s another birthday!! Briana asked for a tiger, and since my last drawing for Aleah was in color I wanted to draw this one in color too. I worked on it during a ski trip to Whistler and really focused on the face of the tiger. I was running right down [...]