Occasionally, when I have some free time, I enjoy doing some pencil drawing.
NOTE: Many of these are large scale replicas of other artists original work. The portraits are reproduced from photographs. The drawings are done in graphite pencil. Most of the images have been scanned and look much like they do in person.
If you are interested in using one of my drawings for private or commercial purposes, you must seek my permission FIRST. I do not generally ask for compensation however I do ask that you use my drawings in a tasteful manner with proper credit given, and I ask that you
do the right thing and ask permission.
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Dinosauria
Space Pics
Astronaut Gene Cernan salutes the flag on Apollo 17, the final Apollo mission to the Moon. Cernan was the last Apollo astronaut to walk on the Moon.
Pentaceratops on the defense! (my first attempt at shadows and shading...)
This is a near life-sized mural of Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. I painted it on the wall of my son's old bedroom. The entire painting was done with standard flat black and flat white wall paint mixed in different combinations. It took about a week to complete.
A drawing of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin saluting the American flag.... drawing the flag was a bit of a challenge since it was a bit "crinkled"...
Check it out! This guy emailed me and asked if he could use my drawing for a tattoo. He actually did it and emailed me the picture... Very Cool!
Apollo 16 astronaut John Young prospecting in front of the lunar rover (in the background). I chose this picture because I wanted to try drawing the lunar rover.
Velociraptor on the attack.... (note the feathers on the head and back..)
Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin saluting in front of the lunar module and American flag. I chose this picture because I wanted to try drawing the Lunar Module and it would allow me to experiment with color.
An Apatosaurus (formerly incorrectly called Brontosaurus) is swimming for its life trying to elude some attacking allosaurs. Note the very large mesozoic crocodile (swimming near the bottom) for scale.
This is the mural on the other wall of my son's old bedroom. It is the Space Shuttle Discovery launching from Cape Canaveral Florida.
Portraits
Historical
This is Captain Benjamin F. Sanford, U.S. Army; WWII... my late grandfather. This was my first attempt at drawing a portrait of a real person... it is a bit intimidating!
This was inspired by a rather patriotic moment... it is a real but anonymous World War II soldier drawn from a photograph.
This is me in a rather contemplative mood. This is my first (and perhaps last?) self-portrait.
I guess you can say I caught a bit of Titanic fever. This was drawn from an image on the cover a book written by one of the official Titanic historians. The book was one of the main sources James Cameron used to write the screenplay.
Fiction
An Imperial Stormtrooper. This drawing was made from a picture in a catalog for a plastic model. The picture was about the size of a large postage stamp, so the details in the laser-gun are not that great.