VIVA la CIVILS!

a reflection on the loved

no one can make fun of you harder than yourself..

a thought about comedians and my respect fo their guts to stan up and talk in front of crowd about something they might or may not find in common.

ALL AGES

opened for the pillows and Noodles last night.
it was A LOT OF FUN!
many thanks!

i did a rain dance.

another blog

www.rawpads.blogspot.com

for journal entries,.

inside the void...

quick illustration before going to work today.

this bit of the mind set

happens quite often.

desert rain

read and got inspired after drving

a live show...

where the monitors and and the sound check hang in suspended cubes from cranes at the top edge of a stadium, screens on all three sides project a differente camera set-up AND there is a grand piano on the bottom, in the middle of the crowd. PLUS a towering spiran supports a giant man-made moon that illuminates the entire venue.
oh, yeah, plus, screens on top of the stadium...
yeah.. it'd be a cool show...

rediscovery

...of a remaining city

drink&draw...

one of the sketches i did at a drink and draw session with Alex Wilson and Ernest Gomez in Santa Monica.

her...

somewhere between my passion for drawing, my emotional drive for art... and her... AND my nostalgic twisted belly... i look at the corner of my room where we've slept and hope she's having a wonderful day.
i cant wait to see her, so i turn back to my drafting table and wish i could speed time.
but in between panels, i took a break to capture that emotion in another drawing.

a gift for a guitar player.

while making comics... i inked THIS!

soon to be inked...

oh, yeah, on more sketch i found...

street joust!

in color!

ANOTHER JIM STROUD

is in the works! and this is the BLACK AND WHITE COVER.
the color cover will be released with the book.

one more pencil pic..

SO many sketches and work, but, these are nice and i'm able to show these.... hehe

THis si nothing "new" but i DO like this subject matter quite a bit.
"boy VS giant Robot", because of the high contrasts it may present: human vs machine; small vs big; incense vs knowledge; agility versus force; etc..
I've done drawing like this before, and there's TON of others out there...
Hope you enjoy.

BACK!

these are some sketches i did during my visit to the San Diego Comic Con.
a BIG helo to Terminal Press; L.A.'s THE DEVASTATTOR magazine, Devon Deveraux, the Sequential Art Department and EVERYONE AT THE SCAD BOOTH, Geoff Mosse, Matt Voss, Patric Reynolds, Kel McDonald, Frank Gibson and Becky Dreistad, Jarrett Willaims, SLG! the Periscope Studio, Lee Keeler, Alex Wilson, Michael Bills, Naaman McFarland Meredith McClaren, Bryan Louie, Ernest Gomez, Lauren Stewart, Van Jensen AND SO MANY MORE FOLKS!!
THANKS FOR A GREAT WEEKEND!

street joust!

still needs to be colored

AND even THIS guy

ASTERIOD BELTS!

an the rest of the planets...

the planets

while waiting for an e-mail...
i i doodled

before a music show...

yesterday i went to see the streetlight manifesto, and on my way there, and a little before the show, i did a little this...

Zundri stuff for LOJ

LOJ

is a LOS ANGELES masquerade ball annual event that i've been fortunate to be involved in for the second year. Also this yer, i got to attend the show, and BOY oBOY, that was a surreal fun experience.

some sketches for LOJ

AND THIS...

Watching TV...

This happened