grimwilkins.com is officially online!!

I've been busy with a lot of stuff lately, not the least of which was finally getting my REAL website online:

grimwilkins.com

I've known for a while I needed to get in there and finish the thing, since I've had most of it done since January, but it wasn't until hearing Sam Weber say "if you don't have a website, you're not trying" that I realized I REALLY DID need to get that thing online. My good pal Andrew at Chronophobia put most of it together, and he did a great job. I love it!

Also, here are a couple things from last weeks life drawing session:

I accidentally squished a little spider into this one while I was scanning it :[

I'd been wanting to try this drawing montage idea for a while but thought I should get some legit life studies in there first before doing anything nutty. I'm pretty excited with the results, so I'll probably do more of these soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sam Weber this tuesday! (and a handful of life drawings)

This Tuesday at 7pm, , Sam Weber will be coming to lecture with the lovely and talented Jillian Tamaki at my old school, CCA. To say I'm super stoked about this one is an understatement!

When I was just getting out of school, I was a reasonably skilled painter/illustrator but I hadn't found any style/process that I really enjoyed doing, so I set out to find that special something. Finding Sam Weber's work was more than a little influential in helping me figure out how to lay down some serious textures while keeping my drawings intact, which had always been a major goal of mine. I swear that his "Carried Away" picture changed my life, haha!


Anyways, I'll probably geek out about Sam later this week, for now here are a few life drawings from a couple weeks ago

Thanks for stopping by!! If you're in the bay area, GO TO THAT LECTURE!!

a little bit of what you've missed

told you i'd be back

so i don't have a ton to share with you right this second, since i sold my camera recently and most of my stuff isn't exactly scannable right now, but here are a few of the pages from my Ellipses promo book that never made it to the blog

(these are two-page spreads, so you'll have to use your imagination and pretend there's a crease in the middle. they look a LOT better in print, i swear)

and here are a few little figure drawings i did a couple weeks ago. i haven't had the chance to do as much of this stuff as i'd like, but that's the way the cookie crumbles, right?

those last few were done in an amazing sketchbook i got from my good buddy Jose Moreno. a brown plaid-clothed cover with gray stonehenge paper inside in landscape format?? you know you want one. they don't cost much more than a crappy Canson sketchbook you'd get at the art store, so you might as well get your checkbook ready and send him an email

thanks for stopping by!

figure drawing

it feels like FOREVER since i went to a figure drawing event. last night i went to my old stomping grounds at the CCA campus in San Francisco for a little life drawing session put on by the illustration department and hosted by the stellar Alyssa Deville. it was really fun; i got to see some folks i haven't seen in a while and show my current work to one of the most inspiring people i know of, mr. Randy Chavez

i drew in my 6x6 inch sketchbook for these, which is smaller than i've ever tried to do figure studies, and also forgot to bring a pencil so i had to use my signature pink pen to sketch with

see you next time!!