~real art and other art~

Here you can find my regular illustrations, figure studies, my copies of master artists works, my drawings from real life, some random sketches, and even some silly fan art. I also included my sketch books in this section- page by page, the good and the bad. The updates for this section will also be noted below.

Section Breakdown and Descriptions:

Illustrations and Paintings: From still life oil paintings to experimental projects and silly flyers, this is a varied section featuring finished work of all variety of media.
Master Copies: A good way to practice and learn on your own is to copy the masters. It helps you grow and to actually see and feel how they did things. This section features copies I've made.
Figure Drawings: A warning, there is nudity in the figure drawing section. But if you care about that, maybe you shouldn't be on an art site. Images in this section were drawn from models in a class setting, not photos.
Real Life Sketches: Random sketches I've done of real things, wether they be from photos or real life reference.
Random Sketches: Mostly silly little doodles I've done that don't relate to my characters.
Fan Art: Zelda: I've always loved the Legend of Zelda series. I played the first game when I was just 6 or 7. Later, I made a little Zelda fan site and started getting involved with other artists that were in thee fan art community. I find it to be a fun and unpressuring way to work on my skill level.
Fan Art: Random: There isn't much in this section right now but, at the moment, it's for all my non-Zelda fan art.
Crafts: There isn't much in this section right now but, at the moment, it's for all craft type art projects.
Sketchbooks: You'll find links to each one on the menu to the left. Eventually I would like to post every page of every sketchbook I've ever had. I'm insane like that; I just think it would be cool to, very honestly, show my work and how it's moved along over the years. Some of my sketchbooks are over sized and don't fit on a standard scanner. For those I just take photo's. The quality of the image suffers the little, but it saves me hours of work because I don't have to piece together pages.

~Recent Updates For This Section~

September 5, 2008: I added these to the Illustrations and Zelda Fanart section. Some were crossposted in Real Life Sketches:

January 27, 2008: I added a crafts section, a whole new sketchbook, and 20 new pages from this sketchbook. I also added the Autumn Stream picture and changed a bunch of useless code so now if a picture has a larger image all you have to do is click on it, not that stupid heart.

July 22, 2007: I fixed a problem with the rollover images in the sketchbook section, I also rewrote, or added, a lot of text in this section. I also added a few illustrations, real life sketches (including another version of kitty I drew, some random sketches, and some fan art. There are also wallpapers for some of these in the extra stuff section.

Novemember 11, 2006: I "finished" my Libra piece. I also added two oekaki's that were missing from this gallery for some reason, and a little original fan character/mascot. Please be sure to refresh your browser when you visit new pages on this site. I also added 4 pages to my "newer 2006" sketchbook. The first page is a sketch of my character, Hawk, and some random people. The last 3 pages are some thumbnaild for the scorpio piece I need to be working on. You can find wallpapers for libra in the extra's section.

November 08, 2006: I added two sketchbooks; one from 1996-1997 the other from 1998-1999. Click on the links to the left to view them.

October 15th, 2006: I don't want people to ever have illusions about what I draw and my drawing abilities. I've always said that I don't think I'm very good- and yes, I want to make a point of proving it. I also know that I have my bad days and then, maybe, some better days. So, that being said, I'm doing something I've always wanted to do: I've started scanning all my sketchbooks. What better way to show people what things are like? I can't think of one.

I've now gotten 6 sketchbooks done (you'll find links to them to them there on the left) and the cool part is that they span a ten year period; 1996 to 2006! I have more, (I probably have 20 more to go) but, the problem is that, my favorite ones also happen to be my larger ones. In fact- they're too large to fit on my scanner bed. I realize I could scan the pages in portions and piece them together... but what a pain in the ass! I might get cheap scaled xerox's of the pages and then scan those.. but, needless to say, it looks like the best will be saved for last.

My sketchbooks often double as daily notebooks. I also end up leaving blank pages here or there. While I left in about every page with a mark on it, there are some pages I didn't include because of the information that's on them. Also, because I'm really shy, most of the notes and dialog pertaining to my characters has been blotted out. I sort of want to apologize for that but, on the other hand, it was all horribly uninteresting and completely random stuff- so I doubt it would really be missed even if it could be read. Actually, a lot of the stuff that was blotted out was daily chores and info that I needed to write down. There were drawings on the pages, so they were included but, yeah, it was extra uninteresting *smile*