I’ve got four nephews. Three on my side of the family and one on Nizzibet’s side. I did a portrait of the one on Nizzibet’s side a few years ago when I sent out a series of postcards to friends and family around the country. He’s grown quite a bit since then and asked me to do an updated version. 
He asked me to keep the outfit the same but to have his hands giving the ^^^ sign. I had to ask him to send me a photo of him demonstrating that. I have no idea what it means. If he’s calling for the destruction of Western Civilization don’t tell me. 
Once he’d confirmed that I had portrayed his hand signs accurately I inked it up and then sent it to Photoshop for coloring. The white space around his hands was to make it easier for me to add the lettering to his t-shirt. 
And there you go. Another young man out to make his mark on the world. And calling for the destruction of Western Civilization. Or something.
Category Archives: portraits
Happy Birthday Nizzibet!
Today is Nizzibet’s birthday. If you see her be sure to wish her a happy one!
Would You Buy a House From This Man?
No. You shouldn’t. He didn’t pay for the portrait.
Shame on me for not getting the money up front.
Sketches for the Portrait of a Real Estate Agent
These are sketches for a caricature portrait of the partner of the real estate agent I whose portrait appeared earlier in this sketchbook.
Real Estate Agent
This is the final cartoon portrait for which I posted sketches yesterday.
Portraitwork
These two sketches were done for a caricature portrait that a friend commissioned. She wanted a cartoon version of herself to include in her real estate marketing materials.
Black Sealers (Sealists?)
Once I’d done the portrait of JT there were a couple other of my fellows at The Black Seal who needed to have their portraits done as well. The gentlemen with the ruptured face is Bob Corcoran. Bob designed the seal for the Black Seal. The gentleman wrangling little tcho-tchos is Giles Hill. Giles is in the mids of serializing his Mythos novel on the other side of that link.
JT and the Natives
This is the base drawing for a portrait of Mr. Jon Turner, the man who originally got me doing illustrations for The Black Seal. I didn’t get any reference photos of him when I did contributors’ portraits back in 2004 so he missed out on being featured on the website. A little over two years later I finally got the photos I needed and did a portrait. I’ve no idea if it will ever see print.
The Unspeakable and the Inhuman, part 4
The Unspeakable and the Inhuman, part 3
This is Ryan. Ryan is the engineer (I think) for The Unspeakable and the Inhuman. I don’t remember ever meeting him and I only had one wonky photo to work from. Hopefully he wasn’t too repulsed by the result here.
