I'm out here campaigning...

Just thought I'd stop by to ask my Sketchbook All-Stars family to help us bring back our hip hop kung-fu kid hero comic Champion of Children, to better school these young' uns in the ways of the masters.
DO IT FOR THE KIDS!!!

If anybody's interested, I have some original pages from Champion of Children: The Legend of Challenge that I'm selling as part of the campaign... click here to check some of 'em out!

salute!
-samax

Pssst! Artshow this weekend!

Okay folks, it's showtime again... I'm exhibiting at New Puppy Gallery this weekend... Hope to see my LA folks there...
http://www.newpuppyla.com/cannibal-flower/
Here's a detail shot of my piece:

Finished and sold...

Here's the finished canvas. It sold when I exhibited it a couple of weeks ago... On to the next one.

The Art of Sharon Samples

A few weeks ago, I had my first solo exhibit at Mobile Arts Council. It was a new experience, but it went really well, and I actually sold some art, which great. Below are a few pieces from the show.

"There Are Wolves in the World"

"The Fairest"

"& the Pea"

The rest can be see on my website: artgyrl.com. Thanks for looking and your feedback is most welcome. :)

Developing a painting

Fleshing out a new painting.

Dawood Marion Occupy Oakland

Dawood Marion documents Occupy Oakland's General Strike protest on Nov 2, 2011. Dawood uses a method call "Reportage Drawing" (drawing on-location) to create a piece of artwork that captures some of the energy this historic moment in time.

Film Shot and edited by: Dawood Marion
Music provided by: Thayod Ausar for Black Tantra Music.

finished work...

Ok so here's one of the finished paintings from one of the process posts I did in here a few months back... (with a couple of details) ... PEACE!

Self Portrait Drawing

Catching up

So I designed this piece waaaay back in July. I had 3 other pieces in line ahead of it, and the gallery director insisted that I paint it larger than it originally was. So I finally got a chance to transfer it and start throwing some paint around...

Batgirl Halloween Illustration

She may have the bats on her side but those ghosts are a different story!

I drew this on 8x10 chipboard with Prismacolor Marker, Prismacolor Pencil, and other mixed media.

I post a brand new original hottie everyday at: www.DailyDivaDrawing.com

Gettin' my paint on...

I quick sketch I did of the Fox Theater in Oakland.

Fox Theater
24 x 18
Oil

Painting Again

This was a quick warm-up piece to get me back in to painting. I haven't been painting in seems like almost a year. 2012 I will be making my work available to the public so I will be doing more paintings and other work. This is another painting in an ongoing series that I call "The Black Woman Collection." A tribute to our mother. 

I found this box at a thrift store. I sanded it, textured the surface, gave some yellowish glazes and finally painted the woman on it. I am also going to paint a different woman on the remaining 3 sides. Once Im done painting all of the sides I'm going to replace the wooden knob at the top with a jewel knob.

Untitled
acrylic on wood

Here is a similar project I did in the past where I painted on an object. This one was protein powder jar:
http://dawoodsketchs.blogspot.com/2011/02/painting-on-stuff.html

The Lebrons

A couple months ago me along with other flash animators and designers at House Of Cool worked on a couple of commercials that were for Microsoft/Bing and Intel. The commercial spots used characters that were developed at house of Cool called The Lebrons. The commercials were animated in Flash in house, while the episodes were animated over-seas. It was a great project to work on with extremely talented team of designers and animators.....

Directed by:

Ido Gondelman ( http://vimeo.com/mrido )

The Design Team Was:

Andrew Wilson http://andrewewilson.blogspot.com/
Jeffrey Thompson http://jeffreysfolio.tumblr.com/
Martin Sokol http://sokuprojects.blogspot.com/
Chris Macdonald http://christopher-macdonald.daportfolio.com/
Gavin Ball http://www.gavinball.com/

Animation Team:

Shaz Lym http://shaz-lym.blogspot.com
Andre Barnwell http://www.studiotectona.com
Oliver Merlo http://olliesportfolio.blogspot.com/
Adam Temple http://adamtemple.blogspot.com/
Pasquale La Montagna

Compositor:

Jason Stalker

Sketching in oils

A warm-up sketch I whipped out in oils

untitled
oil on wood

hello september (works-in-progress)

Hi guys.

I'm going to be having a solo art show early next year, which means a lot of new art to be completed. I've been posting the progress on my Facebook page and blog.

 

Dima: "downpour" (Arabic)

 

Marjani: "coral" (Swahili)

Pushing paint around...

Here's a few progress shots of the current project - stay tuned for more...

Here's a sample of some of my latest storyboard work!

Pencil work...

Pencil pushin'

Video - How To Change The World

Sometimes a great idea can be even better.

That's how I felt about the cartoon I posted on Monday. It occurred to me that I might be able to enhance the emotional weight of the panel cartoon by creating a video with music. Hopefully I've done that because I really love the way this turned out. :)

A great big thank you to Dan-O for the free royalty free music: http://www.danosongs.com

How To Change The World

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

-Margaret Mead

Courage

Nowhere is your courage more evident or your strength more demonstrated than in the bold use of your individual voice in the face of group opposition.

Within you is all the strength and power necessary to begin to heal the world. Your voice. Your truth. your courage.

Use your voice! Love courageously!

Wear your courage like a badge of honor. 

T-Shirts available: click here.

Drawing In Motion

 I always wanted to see my drawings and paintings move. Since i got the spider bite last week I've been inspired to start animating. Here is quick test animation I did of a camera. 

My Second Sketchbook Film Short... Check it out

Sketchbook Flip - Book II (Part 1)

Art Show Time!

Be there or be square!

Paintin' it up!

I finally got around to posting this piece up - I've already exhibited at two shows in LA. I'm having a ton of fun with this series that I painting - it'll be a total of 4-5 paintings when it's all said and done... I'll show them altogether in one show in the fall or winter... Stay posted!
peace!

Today I had all my students draw each other. I was requested as a model also so I had to draw someone in order to sit still long enough to be drawn. Lots o' Fun Fun FUN!!!! 

The people below area folk on the train heading home in the afternoon.

using markers....

been having some fun lately.....l really like my copics....

Super (hot) Villian

As a yougster I was taught never to touch Poison Ivy because it'll make you itch. Let's just go ahead and ignore the blatantly obvious sexual double entendre.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

Nathanael Lark Blog

Haven't posted in a while.

Been doing a lot of sketch cards lately.


Vixen by *mainasha on deviantART


Jean Grey ACEO by *mainasha on deviantART


Spiderman and Venom by *mainasha on deviantART


Galactus and Silver Surfer by *mainasha on deviantART


Batman Cat woman by *mainasha on deviantART


Batgirl card by *mainasha on deviantART


Morrigan Dark Stalkers by *mainasha on deviantART


Big Barda and Mr Miracle by *mainasha on deviantART

30 minute sketch - Batman

I've been getting some great practice in lately with 30 minute sketch speed exercises.

The image in my head for this one was slightly different than the finished product here but I'm totally cool with that. To be honest, the image in my head was slightly beyond my ability. It was super valuable for me to realize that I couldn't quite do it and also why I couldn't do it.

Drawing quickly has a way of unapologetically exposing my weaknesses. Since I don't have time for reference material or reworking, I've got to rely on what I REALLY know.

In this case my knowledge ended just shy of the image in my head but that experience tells me point blank what I need to work on. In the end I knocked a decent little sketch and I learned a little about my current limitations.

All is well in Gotham!