You are Special - Max Lucado

I'm sure some of you have heard of Max Lucado. He's an awesome writer for both children books & adults too. The artwork is by Sergio Martinez. Watch this & Enjoy!

Esly Stampek-Simpson

This was just too good.. not to try.

Here's a little of Australia

Me absolutely FREEZING in Australia. It is COLD here down south/down under! (Remember everything is opposite!)
"Some COCKATOOS" There are so many of these things here. They look like part rooster with that funny yellow thing on their head.
"A MEERKAT" Looks like a cross between a dog and a mongoose. But looks nothin' like a Cat. Don't know why they call it that. He looks so scared!
"KANGAROOS"

DRIVING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD... (YIKES!)

Yes.. I now have to take what I've learned my whole life (as in.. on the road) and do the complete OPPOSITE!

Got Married, moved 2 Australia

Okay.. I'll do an update.. for those of you who don't know.
During the 2nd of March, I've went and got married to David Stampek (an Aussie), went on a honeymoon to Hawaii for 2 1/2 weeks, and then moved to Australia 1/2 way across the world down under (about 21 hours on plane)and I'm now in the future on your clock if you live in the U.S.

Since I've been in Australia. I haven't really posted any photos at all. I know some of you may be wondering about it. Well, I haven't yet seen too much, because I have to get an international driver's license, therefore, David is my Chauffeur. He's also working 6 days a week.. so it ain't easy! We will be able to see more soon. But were still paying off many many many many things!

Here's us married in case you were not there.. (we got married in Florida) If you were not invited it's either because I don't know you, I ran out of money, It would have been awkward if you were there OR because your name dissapeared in the mess of other names & addresses and I was TOTALLY distracted and overwhelmed! (so, I'm very, very sorry & I really wished you could've been there!) :^(

Here's me and my sweet little brother Ruben.

Cool dress right???

CHEEEEZ!!!


I'm thinking there may be a lot of photos.. so I'll just separate these next few posts.

Birthday Sketch 4 Barbie!!!

Well, here's a sketch I drew for Barbie. Done in Pencil. It's weird After ALLLL this time.. 5-6 years or more.. I don't think I've ever drawn her. She's the one doing all the hard work behind the scenes for Keelan. (my boss at Disney)
Now that I'm down-under in Australia.. I have to keep sharpening up my skills 4 when I visit. Working at Disney was a whole lot of fun & it really keeps you on your toes with a job like that. Your never have to warm-up because your constantly drawing.. not to mention drawing FAST! (well drawing fast, at least most of the time.) :^)

Still working on this one..

The other day I was watchin' this really big giant play videogames. It was funny. Still working on this one though. I'll post it up soon when I'm done.

Sketchbook - Cartoon Lion

Well, here's a before & after shot I drew of a Lion. Animals can be fun to draw. I figured I'd color it in Photoshop. I think it looks better now.

Sketchbook - Figure Studies

I don't think learning the names of everything is necessary, but.. it may come in handy someday so it's good to learn.

It's always nice to go back and do figure studies. It reminds you of what's underneath the skin.. when you're in the zone of simplifying your drawings all the time. I just think it's great to do both.

Cute Doggy

I'll be posting my sketchbook drawings more often. I was inspired in drawing a dog because I was watching the "Dog Wisperer" on television. Good show if you wanna learn how to train your dog. I don't have one just yet. But I will eventually.

I drew it in my sketchbook then scanned it in and colored in in Photoshop. I used the generic Brush tool for the color & shadows, then I used the gradient tool for the lighting.

Ella McCoy

Here's the birthday drawing of little girl, "Ella" from the family I spoke about below. She's only 3 yrs. old now. I basically took the same drawing of her and just photoshoped a new background so maybe she could use it for her bedroom or something. Little girls Love pink!!

The McCoy Family

This is Jeff McCoy, His wife Sandy & daughter Ella. This guy was a former christian & police officer who was killed 2 weeks ago. Right before he passed away.. he had seen some of my recent work & asked me if I could draw up his daughter for her birthday. I told him yes.. and somewhere inbetween all of that.. he passed away before I could get the drawing over to him.

I was thankfully able to find a close friend of his so he could get this drawing over to his family. It's really sad. His last request for a gift to his daughter was my drawing! I was honored to draw him & his family eihther way.



His life showed his dedicated passion for God & out of anything else in his life he wasn't afraid of showing what he believed. He went out of his way to get the truth of the gospel out to people... and in reality THAT'S MORE courageous than being a police officer. He amazingly was able to do both.. be a policeman & a witness for Christ. :O)

As for the drawing... The photos I had available of him weren't that great. They were a little blurry. I still don't think the likeness is all that great... but oh well, it's all I could do. I like the drawing of the little girl & the wife the best.

Chrissy Lopez

This is Eric's Mother, Chrissy. She's the sweetest.. and she LOVES her children & grandchildren. :o) Anyways, I wanted to do a cute one for her. So this is how it ended up.

Jackie Santiago Lembree

Hi guys.
This is a childhood friend of mine that I grew up with. She came to my wedding and sang some BEAUTIFUL songs. She was always into singing at our church. She never lost her talent either. She now does Real Estate. So I thought I'd give her this as a gift. It was all done digitally in "Corel Painter".

ME!!!

Hey guys.. I tooned myself digitally using painter. I know my left eye is higher than my right eye on this.. but oh well, it's just a cartoon. LOL!

Security Logo

This is something I drew for Endeavour Security Services here in Australia. It had to be a sort of a serious simplified black & white logo. I guess I'm happy with it.

Me and the Big Boss!

A Gig with bigboss - Keelan on a really hot day.

Tim Gardener

Disney's Animal Kingdom - A drawing I did of Tim

Michael McElroy

Hey it's Mikey!!! I miss Michael so much! He too was an old collegue of ours at CC. But the difference is Michael visits us for longer periods of time. He's an AWESOME artist! and.. very humble I may add, which makes him one of the best artist's who has ever come across Keelan's, Caricature Connection. (Oh... and I will be coloring these when I get time)

Cary Bivins

Well, I haven't posted in a while. I guess because I've been so busy with everything. (sorry) So, I figured it was about time I posted some little drawings. Hope you like.

This here is Cary Bivens. An old collegue. Some of you CC artist know him from back in the day. This was at Universal Studios before he moved away. :o( I haven't seen him in a while. Hope he's doing alright. Where in the world are you Cary???!!!