Welcome to the "Sketches and Markmaking" area of the site. This is basically where you can come to look at all of the ideas, concepts and roughs that eventually become finished ideas (and some that just lanquish in concept hell...).

Sometimes ideas are at their best in the wonderful primal stage of the intial sketch. I always felt that a lot of ideas tend to become watered down or too studied by the time the original idea has been finessed to a "finished" illustration, and you end up with a less than spectacular final rendering.

There is a lot of figure study, some still life, and a lot of mistakes and trials and tribulations to be found in the pages and works you will see on here. And that's okay. No one's sketchbook should be that clean and wonderful and accurate. If it is, you are doing something wrong.

I have attempted to present the pages and sheets in their entirety so you can see just how screwball and off the cuff the thought process I go through really is. I think a lot of artists tend to do that... it becomes a way to take notes, to get out your ideas, and to help build a feeling of organization to the process of creation, which by its very notion is notoriously anti-formulaic,... well,... it CAN be if you are doing it right... :).

Not everything is up as of yet, so although the links above work, there isn't a lot of content up yet.