Cold Muggin

i let Craig's baby, Oliver (who, by the way, I am named after) free reign of my Mighty Muggs.  he gets bored quickly this child.

Dawn....like the sunrise

shot over the weekend at Rome's casa.  The model is Dawn, who I instantly fell in love with.  It was a relatively impromptu shoot, just a couple of half baked ideas going in.  Dawn was pretty much down to do whatever it took to get the shot, which was just wonderful.  A wonderful way to finish off a great, relaxing weekend.

Wong. Oliver Wong.

finished business

will probably redo the linework on this.  Did it in PS, and fine detail is not my forte.

This is a sketch that sat in my books for like four years at this point, that I'd always wanted to finish.  So  i scanned the rough work and rendered it in greys, and then hit it with color.

I thought it really came out well, til i flipped it horizontally, and saw all the glaring flaws and my obvious weaknesses with hand drawing. 

After some reworking and reorienting, and a beefing up of the lines, here we are:)

yay for big ass windows.

Gimme some sugar, baby!!!

from the second Sugarpuss shoot.  Since I've been so lazy, I'll upload a few of these over the next few days.

old photos

scanned a bunch of old photos to play with. Which has led me to the realization that I really should be scanning the old negatives.  But these are mostly for web use only, so nothing to stress over anytime soon.

It's weird looking at my old photos, taking into account old aesthetics, old shooting styles.   I'm trying hard to recapture some of what I had before.  I denno if ignorance was bliss,  but I liked the old photos.  No narratives behind them, standing on the merit of being itself, a good photo, not representative of anything, no stories, etc.  

Sugarpuss

fun day, did some shooting for the updates for Jen Summers' lingerie line, Sugarpuss.  

Hair by Maggie, Makeup by Bara:) Mitra hittin the poses and me on the one's and two's.

Shot on location at Minx on Sutter, this very cool lil bar with some innnnnnteresting decor.

Assisted by Albert today, and Dave provided support.  It was a great vibe, everybody got along really well, and there was a nice casual vibe throughout the entire day. I forget, but I think we did five? outfits, quickstyle, as we ended up with only bout two hours to shoot in the allotted time.

I may have picked up two quick gigs out of this, one of em being a calendar, which is nice.  

The image above was just me fuckin about.  Desaturated, dodged and burned, blurred, etc. etc.

Charlie Brown and the Lil Redhead Girl

something  I needed to get out of my head. My buddy Dave, and Jeska.  Maybe I'll write more about this later.

more LeVesque:)

fine. she's holding the can wrong.  Obviously she's never crushed one on her forehead before.  I must revisit this idea. meanwhile, dang, lookit that body:P

Welcome to the Gun Show!!!!

I need to do some more stuff like this.  Fun times:) Rome had  great attitude.  This is a few months old, had to go back and take a second look.  I'm wondering if when I'm shooting this stuff, I should be composing in camera or not.  If i'd had been farther back, I probably could've done more with the image, etc.  

Michele Levesque

Michele and I've been wanting to work together for over a year now.  Not an easy thing to do considering she's from Canada, but I fiiiiiinally got a chance to earlier today.  Freaking amazing and great fun.  Wish I had more time.

SuperMaya?

another shot of Maya, just to keep me occupied.  She's an amazing, very physical model.  Wish I'd thought out what I'd wanted more.  My Steampunk Mazinger toy is behind her, and in my head, they're two members of a whole league of characters.

Note to self, need more gears and miscellany for my brush collection.

starting off the new year...slowly.

starting the New Year going through a lot of the unfinished work from the previous year, and files I hadn't looked at in awhile.  This one is an image of Maya Lei that I just started working on earlier today.  There's a whole series of her with just amazingly cool facial expressions.  I spent a lot of time evening out the color and smoothing out the skin, then discovered I liked it better in black and white. Ah well.

And look, it comes with  a snazzy new squid watermark:)