Santa Clause

In Richard's family they started a tradition of making presents for each other for Christmas, which gave Richard plenty of opportunities to put his artistic hobbies to use. This particular year he decided to make a Santa Clause for his sister, Becky. He took the clothes off another Santa, and then created the face, beard, boots, and gloves. He also padded the clothes to finish off the look of the Santa. Here is the finished result:

Sumo Wrestler

Richard put this guy together using all wire for an art class he had. The assignment was to create mass using only wire. Sadly, you can't see the face or the bun of this guy to well in these pictures, but they were well done! We had to get rid of him because he took up to much space, otherwise I'd try to get some better pics. If you open the bottom one you can almost see the face.

Patriotic

This is one I did for class. It was really hard to think of something creative with patriotism as a theme. I felt like everything for a patriotic theme has pretty much been done before.

Missionary

Richard drew this cartoon when he was on his mission. The Tweety Bird
(which was an inside joke) was drawn from memory, after 2 years of not seeing it.

Hair, anyone?

We need to get our scanner up and running so we can start scanning his pictures in. For now, they aren't the best copies, but we're going to try and make them better quality, so stay tuned!

This particular character is one of many characters he did from a book with this style of drawing in it. It is one of his favorite type of drawing styles that he likes to work with.

Woodland Hills Cabin

This is a picture of the house Richard grew up in, transformed into a cabin. He drew this freehand (no rulers) when he was 16 years old.

Girl In The Snow

Richard did this drawing for a basic art class years ago, before he decided to go into art as a profession.

The Sailboat

This was one of my first assignments for my Digital Media class. The description below is the assignment description that was given to us.

Choose a topic of interest to be your theme-based project. Create a collage of text words describing your theme. Mix and match them together using filters, layer styles, layer affects, typefaces, fonts, styles, and opacity. Transform these words to be vertical, horizontal, flipped, and distorted to create a collage. Make it all look as 3-dimensional as possible.