Drawings

Before I learned to write, I drew. I was the stereotypical drawing kid, the one frequently hunched over a piece of paper, engrossed in some vision. I drew on placemats at Black Angus. I drew on napkins and the edges of my school work. I used Bic pens, fancy colored pencils, red pens my Mom brought from work. Whatever was around became my medium. It was fun while it lasted. Here is a selection from the first half of my life.

drawn from an Edward Curtis photo, as a gift for my granddad 12-22-98

el creapo horned face, drawn 12-12-94

Haida Indian butterfly design. Drawn on 1-21-99, using plain Bic pens

Haida Indian caterpillar design. Drawn 1-23-99, also with Bic pens

Marsh scene from San Joaquin Valley, drawn during a brief period of experimentation with ink line drawings, 1998. (Can’t remember which book I found the original image, though.)

I went through a hardcore MC Escher period, where I read about him and drew as many of his drawings as I could. This is an original inspired by Escher, drawn during some high school class, probably Math. I love geometry, but couldn’t stand the rest of Math.

from 5th to 8th grade, I was obsessed with manga. Once I discovered Robotech, the next three years were a spent scouring comic book stores for anything like it, assembling models of Japanese robots and mech-exoskeletons, and replicating the images in my sketchbooks. I had a special love of robot blueprints and design mockups, like this one. Drawn in 8th grade

More nerding out on manga in 8th grade. The name of this comic appears in the drawing but didn’t fit in the scanner’s frame.

Another manga cover, drawn in 1989, 8th grade

Manga, 8th grade

In middle school, I also loved American comics. Here’s some nerdery from that phase: cover of a Batman comic I drew in 1989, 8th grade

The Punisher, drawn in 8th grade. (Wish my scnanner was bigger. Also wish the paper laid flat so it wouldn’t have blurred.)

As I got older, I dabbled in simpler color drawings. This is Mountain Ranier, drawn sometime in 1999, right before I quit drawing entirely.

I tried faces for a while. The fun was the challenge of capturing each person’s particular likeness. Pencils, 2-19-94

Drawn from an Edward Curtis photo. Pencils, unfinished, 1994

Treehouse in pencils, drawn between 6-14 and 20-95. An experiment in shading

faces, warped, 6/95

more warped faces, 6/95

Haida Indian otter design, drawn 12-20-98, using Bic pens

Haida Indian eagle design, drawn with Bic pens on 1-26-99. Sometime after this, I quit drawing and haven’t even doodled much since.