Summer Vacation!

As of today, I'm now officially on summer vacation. Definately one of the best parts of being a teacher. I try to draw whenever I can, and at school I end up drawing a lot of students. I threw some of my favorite sketches together for this blog post, hope you enjoy!　今日から夏休みです。学校でいろいろなスケッチをしました。どうぞ見てください！

Harry Potter

The wife and are are looking forward to checking out the new Harry Potter movie on Wednesday. I've been thinking about doing a Harry Potter group caricature, but there are so many characters, I've been doing a lot of little warm up pieces. Anyways, here is one of my favorites so far.

me as Mario in illustrator

I drew myself as Mario a couple years ago using some pens and then coloring in photoshop. Last week I wonderedwhat it would look like if I tried again in illustrator. This is what I came up with. I tried to improve my color since it is my weakest point. I might try to make this an interactive animation in flash, but this is all for now. Anyways, enjoy!

Tom Graffiti

Here is a picture I drew of an awesome artist called Tom. I first learned of him at the Tokyo Mini-con. He came in 3rd place. He sometimes works wth Tomo Tabata or Takayuki Watanabe. He often uses graffiti and animals in his artwork. wanted to give it a try too! Check out his work

http://blog.tomgraffiti.com/ or http://tomgraffiti.com/ or http://drawing-tom.net/index.html

私が素晴らしいと思うカリカチュアリストの一人である「Tomさん」を描きました。彼との最初の出会いは東京ミニコンで、その時彼は３位入賞。時々、田畑さんやTAKANABEさんと仕事をしているようです。彼の作品では、グラフィティや動物をよく目にします。そこで、私もトライしてみました。

More digital work

I'm working on some bigger projects that I will post soon, but I wanted to post something, so here is some older stuff. Here is a simple picture I did of my mom that I liked.

Here is a drawing of Morpheus from the Matrix that I did at the end of last year right before I started this blog, so I thought I might as well post it.

I was looking through some of my older files, and found this picture an old friend drew of me. This was drawn by Josh Langstaff while we were at the University of Michigan in 2003.

Wedding welcome Board

My wife's cousing is getting married next month, so I was asked to whip up a wedding welcome board. I was only given a week and this picture, so this is what I came up with. Hopefully I can add the reference picture soon.

Here you have the two New Zealand stars of Flight of the Conchords. A great musical comedy show on HBO. I've been wanting to draw them for a while.

Me by Mike Giblin

Since my birthday is at the end of the month, I decided to treat myself with a comission by one of my favorite artists, Mike Giblin. As always, he gets a good likeness with super clean lines.
You should definately check out the link on the right hand side of the page. Great stuff.