Yesterday’s Clothes

To be a furniture designer…

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I’ve taken to drawing modern furniture. There’s something immediately pleasing about the shapes and angles. It’s fun to juxtapose different pieces on top of one another. During the day I create a lot of spatial renderings, so this is good practice. Of course it’s always been a dream of mine to design my own home with custom furniture in it. While that dream may be somewhat unattainable, I can always execute my dreams on paper. If you can’t have it, draw it. 

Small victories in the taming of the digital.


The digital realm has been tough to tame, but it’s starting to bend to my will more and more each day.

A quick color test…

Recent sketchbook explorations

I’m still having fun pulling reference from the Japanese magazines. I like to draw freestyle on top of the referenced imagery to create something new entirely. Try it sometime.





Tomorrow – March Drink & Draw


We’ll see you at 7pm with your sketchbooks at the usual spot (Rontoms). Come drink and draw with us!

Sketchbook Portraiture – Japanese Style

It doesn’t take much to get me talking about my time spent in Japan. Back in 2006 I spent a month and a half in Tokyo on a PNCA study abroad program. This was more of a scouting mission to pave the way for future trips, so we were given ample free time to explore to our hearts’ content. Our hostel was on the edge of Harajuku, famously known as ground zero for Japanese street style. A spent a great deal of time wandering the area, exploring the retail enclaves and people watching. It’s not a stretch to say that the Japanese played a large role in laying the groundwork of the current street-style photoblog craze. There are many print publications dedicated to showcasing the latest looks on the street. I bought one at Portland’s local Kinokuniya outpost a few weeks back. Over the weekend I took up sketching a few characters that caught my eye. Expect to see some more of these sketches in the coming weeks!