The Father's Blessing - 10 Commandment Books

Here's the books I've been working on with "The Father's Blessing". I worked on theone's you see there that are "Cleaned up" and a few of the roughs as well. Enjoy! ;D


9TH COMMANDMENT:



7TH COMMANDMENT:


8th COMMANDMENT:


4th COMMANDMENT:

Not Being Anti-Social! lol.

For the 2 people that read my blog once a year... (ha-ha) I'm NOT being anti-social.. as this t-shirt I found online.. displays. but I'll be blogging real soon. I'm going to be ramping up on caricatures again soon! The Book illustrations I've been working on are coming to a pause for a while.. and I'm so grateful! :D I don't want to FORGET how to draw fast! And drawing on the computer can sort of force you to do that!

Though I do LOVE the "CNTL+Z" undo button a whole lot.. I'd rather teach myself not to depend on that crutch so much! The other day when I was trying to sketch.. My brain kept telling my fingers to press the control z buttons that didn't exist. It was little weird, sad & funny all at the same time!
So anyhow.. I've got like 2 weeks or so of work left to do.. cause I put a few outside jobs on hold while I was doing the "Father's Blessing Illustrations". So gratefully, I'll be getting back into the groove of things once again, Lord willing.

For the meantime... I thought I'd share a post of what I posted on my other blog a second ago. http://eslys.blogspot.com/2009/08/atheism-intellectual-embarassment.html. I still have to check all my emails still. See what all the fuss is about on Facebook.. (for some reason I got a bunch of messages over there) and then, hmm... oh.. I've gotta go draw too.. and send my work off!

okay.. so yeah.. hope you all are doing well!
You know.. I may change the way this blog looks again too. hee-hee.. I'm so indecisive at times!

Blessings to You All!

An Oldie

Because I've been so busy & working so much.. (filling up my cpu. with the illustrations for books) I had to clean out my cpu. & make room for all my work.

While I was doing so, I came across this oldie. I'm guessing the reason I never posted it was because it's not so good. LOL. The Hockey Stick looks broken near the boy's hands. Also the forehead should be just a bit more exposed. The eyes look very genaric as well. The hair could be darker as well... or maybe the parent wanted it to be lighter. Sometimes those parents are very picky with the way they want you to draw their children. lol. Other then all those things.. it looks alright. OH! and maybe I wasn't done.. cause his arms have no flesh color to it.

Eric Lopez

Okay.. for those of you that don't know.. this is Eric Lopez, a friend of mine from my spanish church I attended from when I was a kid. I knew him when he was like 8 years old (maybe younger) onto later when we grew up to be teenagers. Later, as I grew-up I stopped going there.. (cause #1 it was harder for me to understand spanish back then & #2 I wasn't saved.. I was just another church-goer who used to go through the motions of the religion.) Now, I thankfully can say God gracefully saved me & I have a relationship with Him. Yaay. :)

Eric sang at my wedding back in 07'. He looks so serious in this photo... but he's got a really fun joyful personality. I can't believe how he's grown up so much. He was always singing in church & I was always drawing. lol.


Looks like God saw our hearts.. and allowed us to maintain those gifts. :) This video below is ALL IN SPANISH.. Eric is a singer, songwriter & producer.

so if you don't know spanish you won't know what's being said. But basically Eric's album came out and he's speaking about how God has a divine plan for our lives.. but we must look to Him for it. (at the end.. the song he's singing.. has some English in it... that you can hear.) Eric produces songs in english as well. His Genre is Espiritu Latino/Christian Latin Pop.


Here's one of his music videos.. "Tu Eres" ("You Are..")


and here's one more!

Kerry Hodgkinson - Reverendfun.Com

LOL! hee-hee!Copyright Gospel Communications International, Inc - www.reverendfun.com

a Joyful 'toon - by, Mike Waters

Gig on the weekend

Well, I'm not gonna post all the caricatures I did mainly.. cause I feel I didn't do a great job. I'm a little rusty. okay.. I'm a lot rusty! But at least I made an attempt right? lol. I mainly only drew faces only. I did draw about 3 face & bodies.. but failed to take photos of them. *sorry* It was a busy night!

I really enjoyed this couple. They had great personalities and were fun to talk to. They also caused for a great response photo shot! lol. :)



"Little Annabel". There weren't very many children at all sadly. I love drawing children. Cause #1 they're easy to draw. lol. and #2 they are so adorable!

Sorry for the bad shots of these. With this one.. I wasn't too dissapointed with how I drew it. It came out alright I guess.

This one below was fun to draw. I wasn't lazy coloring in the hair this time. It makes an enormous difference with likeness if you remember to color in the hair dark if your subject has dark hair. Though sometimes it can slow you down if there's a line and use up your entire marker too.

See, with this one.. I didn't color in her hair nor the guy's.. therefore.. lacks a bit of likeness in my opinion.. but they liked it.. and that's what matters most.

Book Cover is all Done

okay.. well, the book's all done. Hope everyone likes it. Dale did a nice job on the effects, background, colors and binder. yay! Man he's talented. I'm eager to go get one off the bookshelves and add it to my library collection. I can't believe I'm keeping up with all the books I've been purchasing. YES.. I still purchase drawing books of course! But I need a break from drawing every now and then to feed my soul.. if you know what I mean!
Hey... Go Visit "Atheist Central" - Ray Comfort's blog, if you haven't already. Check out all the opinions, rants and debates!

Million Dollar Bill Coming Out Soon

Artwork by the extraordinary, Dale Jackson from Living Waters



No doubt you've heard that one of Hollywood's most beloved singers passed on into eternity this week. His sudden death shocked millions of people around the world. Like most of us, he doubtlessly expected to live many more years.

This is a sobering reminder to the world of their own mortality.

Jesus commanded:
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature."
(Mark 16:15)
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Nothing Comes From Nothing!

Do you see any artwork below?
Me neither. That's cause I didn't sketch anything. Nobody did it.. therefore it doesn't exist.

Same goes for us. But.. difference is.. we exist! : )

Who made the cow that made the milk?
Who made the bee that made the honey?
Who made the matter, space & time that made us?
Who made the gases?

Obviously someone with more power who can exist outside of those things made us.
Someone with God-like attributes, God. : )

LISTEN TO THIS INCREDIBLE SONG below! (especially the nothing comes from nothing part... lol.)



I love this song from the Sound of Music movie. Julie Andrews was incredible! It's probably one of my
favorite movies ever! : )


LOL!

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul?

Today 150,000 people died,
including two very well-known celebrities.
May this remind us that we all have an appointment to keep.

May it also help us to forget that which doesn't matter,
and get right with God while we still have time.

A friend of a friend wrote this: "Life is truly a vapor. I was just last night making a short list of celebrities that died in 2009 after the death of Ed McMahon. May we all consider our eternity and whether we have peace with God. Ricardo Montalban(Jan 14), Paul Harvey(Feb 28), Natasha Richardson(Mar 18), Bea Arthur(Apr 25), Dom Deluise(May 4), David Carradine(Jun 3), Ed McMahon(Jun23), Farrah Fawcett(Jun 25), Michael Jackson(Jun 25)"


"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world,
and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange
for his soul?"
(Matthew 16:26)
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"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"
(Romans 3:23)

"But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
(Revelation 21:8)

Living Waters - Book Cover

This is for one of Ray Comfort's new books. This one was actually flipped around afterwards and then, blurred together in the middle by Dale Jackon. So it'll look a bit different from this once it's been published. Fun to draw it though! Tons of fun!

Is Hollywood Joking?

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The link will take you to my other blog.
Go check out this video clip!

9th Children's Book [edited post]

Here's a pic sample from one of the other stories...

So, here's what I've been working on lately.

Mine are the cleaned up drawings you see there at the beginning. The others were drawn by another artist a while back ago.

Actually, there are a lot more drawings then what you see posted in this here video. But at least you get a glance at what I've been up to..



From "The Father's Blessing" - This is 1 of the 11 children's book series. The author, John Ligon plans on putting all 11 books into a case and make them available as a set once they are all finished.

The books have like... 30+ drawings within each of them (not including the the many revisions that take place.) The ministry is based out in Brunswick, GA.

John Ligon is both the "AUTHOR" of all the books,
as well as the "NARRATOR" you hear in this video. lol.

So far.. my *favorite* book that I'm working on is the 7th.
I'd love to post the drawings on it.. but I've gotta wait.
*sorry*

Now, there are like a TON of characters in these books. I re-designed nearly all of them.. except for the rabbits, that are named, Mrs.June, Skippy {Personally, I had just wanted to change them a bit more - But whilst drawing for a client, you must submit to what they want... since they are hiring you!) & also the Pig that's in one of the other stories <-- he was really drawn well... I wouldn't have changed him at all.

There has been a total of about 18 CHARACTERS so far!
Lots of work & lots of drawing.. but I'm loving it!
It's loads of fun! :)

Funatico.com

Recently, Ivan Spasenovic contacted me from funatico.com to make a little article about me on their site. It's great for promotion as well as browsing for inspiration to draw from. When you get time go check it out.

Funatico is one of the most popular entertainment sites on the web with huge collection of funny videos that will make you lol. If you want to have fun and you have some free time at home or school you can play something from Funatico flash games archive. Don't forget to check out their cool gallery of funny pictures too.

Who is God? - Atheism & Creationism Analysis

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If you are an educated atheist, I would like to talk with you today about an important and interesting question. Have you ever thought about using your college education to think about your faith? Your life and your career demand that you behave and act rationally. Let's apply your critical thinking skills as we discuss simple questions about your religion and atheism. The given answers will amaze you. Click the link above & hear Ravi Zacharias answer the deepest questions many of us ask ourselves.

2 Roosters Arm & Arm (VIDEO)

I know this isn't a pencil sktech.. but it's a "COMEDY-SKETCH" all the same! This is so hilarious! But at the same time.. so truthful! Anyways, ENJOY!!! :D LOL!

21st B-day Invite Caricature

This is for someone's b-day coming up. I'll be drawing live caricatures there. Hopefully, I haven't lost my touch! :P *yikes!* I've been doing so many of these digitally.. I have to get back into the freehand stuff again. It's going to be a "Winter-wonderland Theme" b-day. Everyone will be wearing white I guess! lol.

Quick Digi-Sketches

Well, after I got finished with some work today.. I figured I'd go ahead & draw something up..
I know.. I know.. I know...
They're really sketchy drawings.

But I've been working on some really clean work & my hand hurts now. HAHA. I decided to post this mainly cause I can't post any work that I'm working on.. until it's published. I can't wait to be able to share it all. For now though.. here's two quick sketches! :) Enjoy!

P.S. Click on the links for the answers to those questions on my OTHER BLOG... called, Esly's Blog. :) (Still under development!)

WHY DOES GOD ALLOW EVIL? <--click here & find out!

WHO MADE GOD? <--Click here!

In the middle of stuff! - Easter weekend, etc.

okay.. this isn't gonna be much of a post.. cuz I'm so darn busy. I'm so sorry. (Not that anyone comes here anymore..) but, whatever. I'll post soon. I'm working on a few projects here and there. One I'm having fun with in particular is some children's books. weee! How fun is that? I'm enjoying it. I'll enjoy it more when they're all finished.. and I get to read them in my hands, flipping through the pages.

You know one "children's book series" I used to enjoy a lot in particular were "The Bearstein Bears". I used to read them so happily as a kid over & over again. They were so colorful! Not to mention they had morals to every story that taught kids about organizing, behaving, etc. I'm sure I picked up a whole lot of my good habits from there. It made chores look like fun. haha.





Anyhow, yeah. I'm still out here in Australia. I sure do think about home a lot. I do. I browse around at all my friends blogs & look at photos... remembering all the great times I left behind. My lil' conscience is eager to go back and enjoy all of what I took for granted. Being in Disney's constant spotlight of the hundreds of people passing by. Hearing about the height of their exciting days! And the children telling you about their parent's most secretive secrets.. haha. It was a riot.


Then, you've got my little Dodge Neon that drove me from point A to point B all around town to & fro. How, I wish I had never sold it. lol. I know it's just a little car.. but it was my car.. and I had a lot of memories within it!


Then, you've got the views. Beautiful Florida...

Always a peaceful sky to look above you.. with plenty of action going on, everywhere you look! Perfect for the artist in need of silence. :)



I just recently became a children's church teacher at my church over here. The kids are great.. but I'm used to dealing with so many more. They're such a small lil' group. This isn't them.. but this was Easter after church. I had made easter eggs for the children to represent "New Life". I also made some little Easter bags with "Proverbs/Quotes" on them that spoke about "Forgiveness". I wish I would've taken photos of everything. I worked so hard on them! lol. ah-well.



Also, I think I'm overwhelmed with David's huge family over here. I really thought I'd get more time to myself being away from my family.. but hahaha... I was wrong. LOL! ;D It's not a bad thing at all.. it's just over whelming cuz there's so many of them. They're like more dramatic then my own family. uh.. well, okay.. maybe I'm exaggerating. My family exaggerates the most. ;) Here's a few of them. There were so many they got cut out.. some were outside too. This was Easter Sunday after church.

It's not just his family, it's the newbie-chores of being a wife. It's so weird! There's like double the amount of stuff that needs to be done. Being out here really makes me admire my own Mom a lot. She's always been an independant over-acheiver-do-er! Running around constantly helping people and forgetting all about herself.

Look at this.. here's a random photo I have of her among the many of her doing something for some kids she's never met at some random school. This is like her everyday at a different place everyday helping someone new everyday. That's like the story of my Mom. How cool is that?!


Anyhow, this was just a short lil' post.. with some random thoughts.