Abstraction of Frogs

And now, after a long prolonged break, here's some more art from my personal files. I'm going all out, here, so brace yourselves!

With the piece above, I guess I wanted to do something really random and abstract, something that couldn't be grounded in some real life analogue...and yet I still see a couple of characters in this piece, one trying to eat the other, and the other trying to escape being eaten. Well, so much for that endeavor.

"Below the Surface" is a piece that I wanted to be really special, to push myself on. So I decided to try my hand at an optical illusion, using the checkerboard pattern to try and create the hidden image of a face. However, I had to resort to illustrating some parts of the face with a light colored pencil to bring it more out. I'll be following this up with another piece very soon.

 You will not believe how long this took for me! "Catholic Chapel" was one where I tried my hand again at perspective, and this time with one of the greatest architectural styles of all time. Actually, this isn't exactly a true Catholic Cathedral; being LDS, I thought it would be interesting to use a symbol familiar to LDS audiences, that being the growing seed of faith in the stained glass window.

"Orange Drop" was actually really random; one day I was peeling away the skin of an orange, looked at the white bits left from the peel, and just right then and there started to draw a face on an orange in colored pencil. I'm not sure how I can explain the meaning behind this one, or even if there IS a meaning behind it. Then again, art is subjective, right?

And you thought I would be deep and philosophical all the way through, didn't ya?
"CSI: Swamp Files" is one that has gotten a ton of laughs; it's a nice hark back to my editorial cartooning days in high school, despite being a random doodle in church.

Well, that's it for now. Enjoy!