You've seen the commercial right? The one where the guy pitches the art institute where you copy the picture of the turtle wearing the hat, or the picture of the sailboat into the empty box on the mail away brochure. Well, I've always been able to look at someone else's work and do a decent job of replicating it. I also imagine the prize students to such schools submit their brochure with an original and imaginitive picture of the turtle in a sailor's cap at the helm of an aircraft carrier... taking the building blocks and creating something magical. I've never felt the drive to be THAT creative.

Lately I've spent some time sketching, mostly using the works of others as a springboard for my doodles. It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of copying someone else's art... or something along those lines. I thoroughly enjoy imitating the work of Star Wars artist Joe Corroney (his blog is over there to the left in my Blog Roll). In addition to creating artwork for Holonet News, Star Wars Insider, Dark Horse's Star Wars: Empire comic series... you know, the list is quite long so just go check out his website. Anyway, he's also illustrated about a million sketch cards for a number of Star Wars trading card sets. I drew a whole series of sketches using Joe's cards as my reference materials. So, I have scanned my fan art and set up a gallery which can be viewed here. There's also some recent sketches based on Star Wars comic characters created by Jan Duursema, illustrations of some of my favorite Cartoon Network stars, the sci-fi series Farscape, and some older pieces I still had floating around from 10-15 years ago when I was still heavy into comics. I haven't finished adding captions and titles to all of the files yet, but hopefully my skills are good enough you'll recognize a character when you see them...