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Moleskine Doodles

Life Drawings From Sketch Theater Show

Random Doodles

Alias Sketchbook is pretty friggin' awesome. Feels like sketching with a real pencil.

Mother Nature

Doodles and Figure Study

Mud Turtle

Bar Napkin and Ballpoint

Getty Museum Inspired Sketching

Well, it's now 2009 and perhaps I should create a new list of goals... or maybe I should just retry the same ones from last year. :-)

I never completed my sketchbook but I did draw a lot more than I had the few years prior. Not enough, but progress none the less. This year will be better! The main thing is to keep practicing and enjoy the process.

Paris and Diablo III

FINALLY! I can now tell my friends what I'm working on... Blizzard announced Diablo 3 at our World Wide Invitational in Paris last weekend and I was lucky enough to attend with some of my teammates and sign autographs for the fans. It's always great to meet the people who play your games, see your art, and get their feedback.

Paris itself is an amazing city... so much history and culture. I thought I had been to some impressive museums in the past, but nothing compares to the Louvre for me. That museum is simply breathtaking. I was stunned by the sheer magnitude of it. There are halls and halls, and then more halls, of amazing art dating all the way back to ancient Greece and Egypt. Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Vermeer, Caravaggio... you name it, they probably have it.

Also, no Diablo fan should go to Paris without visiting the Catacombs. That was the first site I went to and it was pretty damn cool. I felt like I was dungeon crawling in Diablo.

A Couple More From Golden Gate Park

I did these the day before SketchCrawl. Nothing special, but Golden Gate Park is one of my favorite places to spend time and an even better place to sketch.

My First SketchCrawl

So I visited friends back home and was able to catch the 19th World Wide SketchCrawl in San Francisco. It was held at Fort Point, just underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and the weather gods were kind. The sun was beaming in and the clouds were puffy little balls of cotton. I met a lot of very friendly and cool artists, too. All in all, a great day.