MONDAY MISCELLANEA - APRIL 25

A NOTE BEFORE WE BEGIN: My cold is pretty much gone now. It went from my head to my chest and when you have a big barrel chest like I do that can be as noisy and violent as a storm at sea. I thought I'd coughed up a lung at one point.

So it's back to our regularly scheduled programming for now, but there are some changes coming to my blog world fairly soon. I will detail them later when I have a firmer grasp of what's what.

So here we go, random pictures from my image morgue:

I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/mdjacksons%5Fportfolio

MONDAY MISCELLANEA - APRIL 18, 2011

Despite waking up to 4 INCHES OF SNOW on the ground, (!) I have persevered and here present my weekly completely random collection of pictures from my image morgue.

I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/mdjacksons%5Fportfolio

SKETCHBOOK TUESDAY - WARMING UP THE DRAWING MUSCLES

Sunday I was feeling kind of uninspired. I needed to recharge. So that evening I got out my sketchbook, which is a low-tech pad of paper and some old fashioned 2H pencils and I started working.


I managed to come up with several images that I will hopefully later resolve into full fledged paintings. But the point of it wasn't the results, it was the exercise. That's why these pages that I occasionally do are so important. It's like warming up your muscles before a sporting event (so I've been told by people who are far more athletic than I am). 


So the above page is kind of like artistic calisthenics. I empty my head and just start moving the pencil around and what comes out is what comes out. I try to fill up a whole page with anything, just to get the fingers working.




I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/mdjacksons%5Fportfolio

MONDAY MISCELLANEA - ALL FRAZETTA EDITION!!!

A random selection of my painting hero, Frank Frazetta's paintings from my image morgue.

Rare photo of Frank at work.

I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/mdjacksons%5Fportfolio

THE PHANTOM!

I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/mdjacksons%5Fportfolio

THE PHANTOM?

UPDATE -- APRIL 11, 2011: Thanks Cal from the Cave of Cool whose post about the Phantom inspired this picture and whose comment further inspired me to actually take this picture to a finished state.


Thanks, Buddy!




You know I have had no motivation to do anything lately. This whole week has been a bust. I've tried to start some projects and this one was the only one that actually got semi-finished and that was only because I got tired of looking at it.

I think I need to recharge.

I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/mdjacksons%5Fportfolio

CAVEGIRLS

This has been a week for finishing stuff that's been hanging around.


I started this about a year and a half ago with an eye towards entering it into a contest. The contest deadline came and went and this hung around unfinished. I would pull it up now and again, make minor adjustments and then abandon it again.


This morning I took another whack at it and after about an hour I decided it was done. Time to move on to something new.


I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/mdjacksons%5Fportfolio