…and then working up the tight final art in Illustrator. Voila!

One of my most recent pieces for In Touch magazine. It’s part of a series of illustrations I did for a section about the power of prayer. I did the hand drawn elements on my Wacom ad in Photoshop, and then added like a billion or so layers of different textures and color.

Here’s my latest piece for In Touch magazine. The article is about the martyrdom of Stephen. Rather than show Stephen himself, or the angry crowd that stoned him to death, we felt it would have more impact to just show a single hand clutching a rock.

The piece was done in watercolor on illustration board. Below is a detail of the piece.

Here’s my latest piece for the June 2011 issue of In Touch magazine. It’s for an article about the importance of memorizing scripture.

Got to do a pen-and-ink of Toccoa Falls for the college located there. The place is absolutely beautiful. It was fun trying to capture the feel of the falls and the spray in black and white crosshatching.

A quick doodle of a grumpy leprechaun.

Yeah, yeah, I know.. the jaw is all lopsided. But, hey, it was done quickly… for free….

And, besides, he’s got that big whackin’ stick in his greedy little fist, so I wouldn’t be too quick to point out his imperfections.

Aaaggghhh!!! Doodle eruption!

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, seeing as how I haven’t posted in almost three months.

So here are some random samples from my latest harvest of id scrawls. Enjoy!

I recently read an article about the driverless vans that made a trek of over 8000 miles from Italy to China. While this is impressive from a technical standpoint, all I could think was “Where’s the fun in that?”

It was hard enough for me to give up my manual transmission when I inherited my wife’s Honda as my daily driver. I felt I had been removed from truly being a part of the driving experience. I was no longer a driver…I was a steerer. (And don’t even get me started on how much I despise cruise control.)

Now this. A car that doesn’t even need a steerer. Blechh! Does anyone really want to be merely a passenger in their own car? Who has ever, when hit with the sudden impulsive desire for a spur-of-the-moment road trip, called up a cab? Or, upon seeing a beautiful, winding country road, thought “Man, if only someone would drive my car down that road for me!”?

So, if and when this technology becomes available in consumer vehicles, buy it if you so desire. But just know that there will be at least one car out there actually being driven by a human. One who has a BIG grin on his face as he downshifts into third and giddily steers his car into a backroad hairpin turn.

Sitting at Jason’s Deli with my family, when my pencil forced me… FORCED ME… to draw this rendition of the J. D. Pickle mascot. Too many Warner Brothers cartoons as a kid, I tell ya!