Uma Thurman as Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill

Another from the figure drawing sketchbook and not an assignment either. I think she's a little too narrow, but her hoodie looks good.

Tony Jaa - Ong Bak

Poses from the beginning of Ong Bak, the scene in which Ting (Tony Jaa) recites and executes moves while his uncle watches. This was in my figure drawing class sketchbook, but not a class assignment. It was my final semester of college, I was in easy classes to just get it done and hardly had any homework. This gave me time to draw what I wanted and my sketchbook looked like it was totally unrelated to the class.

Psychedelic Hallway

Another one from sketchbook class. The assignment was "go somewhere you haven't been at school and draw". This was during my final semester and for the previous 3, I had spent breaks wandering campus and drawing. Seriously, prof? One of the only unexplored areas left was a tiny building with regular classrooms, so I had to make the hallway as interesting as possible.

Media Law Class

This was one of the classes that broke my Dean's list streak. The book was incoherent and the lectures were nearly pointless. The guy sitting next to me was highly amused by this drawing.

Marty Friedman

The guitarist from Megadeth drawn from a photo in a guitar magazine. This was done in the sketchbook class. There was just not enough course material to hold my interest. If the professor had just taken a few minutes to write down some ideas for assignments, the class would have been better.

Lazy at Taylor

There is a stereotype about people with darker skin colors being lazy because sometimes it's true. This guy was at my workplace for a cleaning job and all he did was use his phone in the office. This was great because he sat still so I could draw him.

Hailey

When I was sitting in the art building lobby during my last semester of college, I made friends with this girl. It's a shame that one of the guys from my video group offended her by asking for sex. Social interactions were never the same after that.

Elephants

I drew this in a terrible class that was supposed to be about sketchbooks. The teacher was a Taoist Nihilist who tried to discourage me from drawing realistically. While I was drawing this, there was a video playing about an "artist" who makes temporary pieces out of leaves, stones and branches.

Actors from book

I was sitting in the art building lobby at college during breaks 2 or 3 times per week for a whole semester. There was a book on the table and I worked multiple days to draw this photo from it. I shaded the whole page with charcoal, laid down black sharpie, erased, added charcoal and then white conte.

Abstract Disease Practice

I was drawing a disease for a strange art class and wanted to practice one of the sections.

Chad and Grant - Annoying

We're Annoying and you have to listen to us

My 2 favorite Canadian acoustic musicians from Zoran Maslic's 2015 documentary, Annoying. Chad Fontaine and Grant Faithful.

People Sketch

These were done about 4 years apart. The pencil one was at the start of college and the pen one was at the end. Both were done from photos. I can't tell how much progress was made because it's my own work.

Group Guys

I was attending college and mental health and addiction group meetings for a while and drawing people was the only way to pass the time. I think that I got more out of drawing people in rooms than the other guys got by taking the "process" seriously.

Thomas

I met a good friend in a terrible class at MCC. He looked so serious while doing his presentation that I gave him a happy and colorful background.

Turkeys

I know that this was done in my senior year of high school 2001. The assignment was to bring in an old family photo and draw it, then paint it. The photo was taken of me at a zoo around 1984- -1986 with a camera that would redefine the phrase "point and shoot". It was a film roll camera, not a polaroid.

Sailboat

Drawn from a magazine while at MCC around 2014 - 2015. I used marker and colored pencil.

Rock Wall at State Fair

I drew this one from a photo taken of me in high school. It was at the state fair and I thought it would be cool to climb the rock wall. That was until I reached the top and looked down. It no longer seemed like a good decision at that point.

Pat Benatar Portrait?

Is this Pat Benatar? I drew it from a magazine photo in high school and did not label who it was.

Pastel Still Life

This was drawn during or shortly after high school, around 2000 - 2001. I still have those headphones, but not either of the jars.
Around 2006 - 2007, my friend gave me a cat and it went wild in my apartment while I was at work. When it ripped this drawing, that was it. I drove the cat to a deep forest and let it loose. Shortly afterward, a co-worker said that a new stray cat showed up at her place on the same road.

Motley Crue Portrait

Drawn from an album cover or magazine photo when I was in high school. If anyone knows which dude this is, please comment.

Magazine Women # 1, 2 & 3

When I was in high school, the internet was not readily available yet. I would spend lots of time drawing from photos in magazines. The first 2 are pen, the 3rd is crayon.

Layla Coffee #1

Around 2007 I got a pair of rats: Layla and Lillith. Lillith was an evil bitch and Layla was the best rat I've ever had. She would always want to drink coffee with me, so I photographed her with my primitive flip phone. Years later at MCC, I had to interpret a photograph for some type of art class, using different marks in each grid section.

Jeff's look of disgusted exasperation

While at MCC, I worked on a presentation for media class with a guy who wanted to talk about men's rights. I would watch everyone in class and he always seemed disturbed by what was being discussed so foolishly. It being a stupid class, I had lots of time to draw in my sketchbook.

Denny's Girl

I was sitting in a Denny's near Buffalo, NY with my friend, Mike. We were getting lots of coffee and I was drawing because neither of us had anything better to do. This was either pencil or conte and crayon.

Fatty Boom Boom #5

This was the main model for figure drawing class. That meant she came in 2 or 3 times. The prof said to put her poses across the page and I watercolored it later.

Dave #4

My friend, Dave from high school. I drew him once in marker, flipped the page and traced it in different colors. That was almost 20 years ago. I photoshopped the 2 images together today.

Coat on Hanger

I think this is my dad's coat, but have no idea when I drew/painted it.

Abstract City

I don't really know what I was doing with this, but I think it looks cool. Probably watercolor and ink. It was in an old sketchbook.

Blackie Lawless from W.A.S.P.

Drawing from an album cover in high school. Pencil on paper.

Pastel Self Portrait and Print

High school self portraits again.

Watercolor Self Portrait 3

Another self portrait from high school. I had just gotten a large mirror and decided that I was always there to draw myself.

Watercolor Self Portrait 2

Another one from high school around 1998 - 2000.

Marionette

I made a robot marionette out of paper mache. It was really difficult and came out fine, but just lays there in my room because I'm too busy making other stuff to use it.

Grave Toon

I drew this in 2007 or so. It is based on the same location as Cemetery Excitement. I'm not entirely sure about the materials.

Blues Brothers diner scene

I drew the Blues Brothers for my dad's Christmas present last year. It's one of his favorite movies and he's almost blind, so I didn't have to do a very good job. I think they're alright.

Snowy Church

I took the original photo with a flip phone around 2007. There was such a blizzard going on that I got out of work early and was walking to the store. The second image was edited with saturation and contrast.

Inside Out Woman #2

Figure drawing 2018. Matching skeleton with projected model image again. I think this one looks better than the other.