This week’s AlphaBooks drawing came out pretty well, I think. I’m having some misgivings about the semi-dopey “old newsprint” effect that I’ve been doing with these, but I guess for consistency’s sake, I’ll stick with it. I can always post an alternate gallery of the unaltered images once the series is done. C is for …
Tag: Books
May 28 2012
B is for Brienne, Maid of Tarth
I spent about three times as long on this week’s entry as I did on last week’s Ahab, and I’m about half as happy with it. But, here she is: B is for Brienne, Maid of Tarth – From A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin In the book, Brienne relates …
May 21 2012
A is for Ahab
And it begins… A is for Ahab – from Moby Dick by Herman Melville I’m glad I escaped high school without some teacher forcing me to read Moby Dick at age seventeen. I’m sure I would have hated it and never touched it again. In fact, I first read Moby Dick in my early 30s …
Jan 27 2012
A Year of Weekly Portraits
Roughly one year ago, I decided that the only way to get better at drawing faces was…. to draw faces–and to draw them regularly. So, beginning on January 25th of last year, I drew a portrait every week and posted each to Twitter (with the #PortraitNight hashtag) on Tuesday nights. My goal was to do …





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