Jen. Graphite and ink.

My nephew has swag.

My nephew, Carter.

Warm up sketch in a coffee shop before I worked on some new work for an exhibition I am in next month.

Graphite. 2011.

Added my friend Dahm to this spread.

A couple of months ago a buddy of mine at work gave me his small Moleskine to draw in. I’ve been putting it off and I felt bad so to make sure I actually did it this past weekend I promised him that if I didn’t sketch something in his book, I would pay him $20.

I hate owing people money.

Clubber Lang is one of my favorite movie villains. I’m planning on doing a series of paintings of him, so I thought this would be a cool starting point to do a study.

My buddy Dan.

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I started this the morning of their wedding, and this is about where I left it once the reception got going. It’s not done, but I think I’m going to leave it as is because it was meant to be something I did for them just that day.

As much as I’ve tried, I don’t think I like the Rotring 600 for sketching in my Moleskine. I can’t get the control I’m used to getting from my Staedtler Mars pencils. Sucks because the Rotring is a $30 pencil.

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New Moleskine. Trying out my new Rotring 600.

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