Sword

Appachen / Grandpa

The earliest memory I have is with my grandpa in his house in India. Him and my grandma raised me most of my early childhood. He was always telling me to straighten up, stand strong, speak with authority. I didn't get it so much then but now I do. He's endured through a lot in his life. He kept going no matter what. Always keeping faith. He is now with the Lord. Pain free and young again. See you again soon appacha. We'll always remember.

Lion Anatomy Back Leg

Gallery Setup for Ithaca Vineyard Church

Just wanted to thank everyone for contributing and helping put together the cafe gallery in the Vineyard. 

Especially Albert Kunz & Rebecca Winkler, for helping set it up on Saturday morning for 5hrs! 

Artists: Rebecca Winkler, Teri Ricklefs, Whitney Ledesma, Bethany LeBlanc, Karen Gunning, 

Josh Swartwood, Dan Alsheimer, and myself.   

Crouching Lion

Reference: CaitB

Frazetta Study

A sketch based on one of Frank Frazetta's drawings.

Side Projects

Sometimes I like to take on side projects that challenge my creativity in a different way. The following are a few fun projects that I've done:

Business cards for Joel Lafian. A really great barber in Ithaca, NY

Map of Maple Ridge in Dryden, NY. I was thinking of Pokemon games.

Wedding logo for my brother and future sister.

Mascot for Voter Village, Ithaca, NY

Fun Sketches

New Book Published: Fine Healing Cuisine

A new book is out! Self-published by Betty Davis and written by her daughter Summer Davis, this is a children's short-story/poem about a strange neighborwho comes to help a sick friend with a special stew. 

Illustrating this book was a great experience in a couple of ways. First, this story is meant to be humorous. For me, that's challenging because most of my work tends to be realist and serious. So it was fun pushing my work to have a humorous element while not getting too cartoony.

The second creative aspect of this project is that we introduced a goose character through the illustrations only. In other words, the text is telling one story and the illustrations are telling a complimentary story. This goose has no idea what he's getting himself into. 

Copies can be ordered online at http://www.ebay.com/itm/111574806240  

Enjoy!

Digital Figure Painting

Reference from: http://www.characterdesigns.com/

Waking Lion Series

Saw this lion at the Syracuse Zoo, NY. Inspired me to do a series focusing on its epic-ness.
These are graphite on Moleskin sketchbook paper.

Old Portrait

Painted this back in 2012. Wasn't happy with it then so I never published it.

Hand Studies