Orthographic Cephalopod Sketch

This sketch was made completely digital using Corel Painter Essentials 2 and a Wacom Intuos tablet. I need to get another subject for Maya rendering and this looked like a pretty good one to try.

Another Rugosa Coral Drawing

Here is another drawing though I am not getting the tenticles looking very 3-D. One change over past drawings is the additional creatures in the picture with the main fossil creature.

More Snow and Some Rugosa Coral

We got some more snow this morning with some snow flakes falling the back ground.


Here is my first drawing of a rugosa coral. This a scan of a 2.5" x 2.5" image so its detail is not very good.

Here are some actual rugosa corals. I am thinking of cutting the end with a rock saw to see if it shows that radial look of the interior of the coral.

Ancyrocrinus Crinoid

Here is a fossil I found years ago that I always wondered what it was. While in the library the other day I found out what it was. It is part of crinoid called ancyrocrinus and what that part is the bottom of the crinoid. It was like a weighted grappling hooks or an anchor that would drag along the sea bottom until it got snagged on something. The top part would have the stem and the calyx. So this crinoid was mobil.

This fossil only has one hook left. The other three and the stem are broken off.

Snow Person

Here is a drawing I just did that I hope to incorporate into a birthday card.
Need figure out the lettering and I might do it color pencils.

Another Pastel Drawing of Some Gourds

Pastel Drawing of Some Gourds

More Crinoids

Here is another crinoid (sea lily) that is narrower than the last one. I darkened yesterday's crinoid so the other arms would show up better.

My First Cartoon

Here is my first cartoon that was inspired by reading the Wall Street Journal one day. I need figure how colors work on Corel Painter Essentials which would allow me to draw the sky.

Picture of Evergreens

Here is a digital picture of some trees I drew. This is a fragment of the larger picture but it did not turn out so well.

Drawing Easel

After my first drawing class at the University of Louisville, the instructor said it would be nice if we had desk easels. So I tried to make one and here is what I came up with.

Visit to Fort Morgan, Alabama

Recently, we took a vacation to Fort Morgan, Alabama with family and enjoyed the beach, food and sites of this Gulf of Mexico city. I was amazed at all the drilling platforms in the Gulf we could see from the beach, especially at night.

I was able to make some drawings for my young nephews with the paper and crayons on hand. Our first image is a wake up picture with a sun rising over the ocean which has a sea serpent, shark (complements of my nephew), and fish swimming in it.

This next picture entitled "Fun At the Beach" which shows a picture of the house we rented which was called "Beach Escape". The image of the house is pretty accurate but the surroundings were created with artistic license. The beach house was on a street that was in sight of the beach and the ocean was about 200 meters from the house.

I had brought a bottle of sparkling grape juice and used it to encourage my nephew to eat his vegetables during meals. So I told him he could have some "magic" grape juice in a glass. This image shows how the grape juice made to when it gets to the glass.

Here is an image to encourage my nephews to go to bed. It is a caterpillar sleeping with the moon and some flowers around.