Ritual...Coffee

Boy was it a beautiful day! Rode my bike to Ritual Coffee shop here in the mission District of SF, a place that was introduced to me by my wonderful Miss Daisy. Great place, nice people.  I hope that my drawing there becomes sort of a ritual.  Heres one i did while I was there just to loosen up for the drawing Im about to do right now.  Ah yes, San Francisco, The city everyone wants to live in! I cant believe im here!  

Spring Break!!

Spring Break is Finally hear and Im at home all day doing my thing.  It feels really nice to have time to myself to work on my portfolio, animate and also work on my thesis project.  Well technically its Wednesday now, only a few days left. Gotta go Draw!. 

But before I do I have a few pictures for you guys.  

So for everyone who pre-ordered a book I told them I would draw something special for them.  I took a little more time drawing in the pre-orders than in any other books because I feel that these people actually paid 4 dollars more not just in shipping but for a piece of something a little more unique.  

Here a a few of them.  I was really trying to do lots of birds.  I think almost everyone who pre-ordered got a bird.  

At the Very top is a guy I saw on the train.  Apparently he saw me too! This was not drawn in someone's pre-order book.  But instead in my sketchbook.  

 

Wonder Con 2009 is OVER and Done!

So Wondercon in San Francisco was a blast!  I had a great 3 days of meeting new people, drawing, and selling my new book "Sketch or Die", Which I would like to thank everybody who bought a copy.  The Picture above is Everyone who joined in on the Table.  Carlos, Rosie, Julien, and my lovely Daisy, who was a great help! 

These 2 Drawings above were some really quick commissions I did. They were done really fast with a pencil and some markers.  

These 2 sketches are a sample of the heads I was Drawing in peoples books.  I only took pictures of these, but I drew a ton more!.  
This was the Booth Very early Friday Morning before my booth Friends showed up.  Trust me... it didn't stay like this for long.  I also want to say thank you to the 2 people who bought my framed originals shown.  You know who you are... 

Friends, Friends, Friends, at the Booth, showing mad support!

The picture above is of all the books that I got while I was there. One book that I got which is not pictured is Juan Carlos Porras' book "Monster Soup".  He took it home to draw a picture in it for me.

The other reasons why these events are so great is because you can talk it up with great artists and ask them anything you want.  One awesome thing that happened on Sunday was talking to Ben Balistreri.   Ben Balistreri's  "Seaweed" was on the top of my list of books to get and while talking with him I thought to show him my book and see what he thought of my work.  After showing him the book he gladly purchased it!  To me that is a great compliment!  If someone who I admire for their work, would spend their hard earned $15 on my book it means a lot!  Oh boy how sweet! 

ALSO - On the way out of the show Sunday while everyone was packing up we passed by Pascal Campion's booth and I told him I admired his stuff.  We talked for a split second and ended up trading books on the fly.  What a nice Guy! 

Thanks to every body who came out and showed support! 

And lastly one last picture of me at the show having fun doing what I do.  Draw!

Picture taken by Jeff Jackson!