Art by Lawrence Washington

2010 was a great year for me in many ways. The best being that I got a girlfriend, Debra, who is all-around wonderful, and very supportive. All I ever really wanted was a girl who loves my silly pictures and encourages me to do more of them. And I got one! To show my appreciation, I put her into the pictures from time to time. Historically I've had bad experiences with putting love interests into my work. But this time it's different. This time the girl actually likes me back. :-) First Anniversary 2011: 2011 was spent mostly travelling from place to place with my new love. But some of my favorite moments are the quiet ones. The times where we're not doing much of anything at all. I feel this picture captures that kind of moment. For Debra's anniversary present, I had this printed on special canvas paper and I made it into a scroll for her to hang on her wall. Compared to the disastrous result of doing something similar for a love interest years ago, this piece worked ...

Hello. It's been a while since my last post. I've had a rather interesting personal life. So interesting, in fact that I've managed to not draw very much. Let's see, I lost two friends (they're not dead, we just don;t speak anymore for reasons to silly to go into/ Really. I can't even explain it if I tried!!) But I did manage to sneak in a few art pieces for special occasions. Let's go through them now. Joyce Quan, The "Naked" Superhero : I created this one for a friend of a friend. Joyce was in the hospital undergoing treatment for Breast Cancer and this was the artwork for her 'Get Well' card. I'm not much for the superhero artwork, but I feel I did a pretty good job on this. All I did was base her pose on Supergirl. Thanks, DC Comics! Christmas at ATPA: I believe this is the last piece I did for the company I work for. This was back in 2010 as a greeting for our internal website. So no one outside of our company has seen it. It...

I got into the groove after two successful runs of my V-Day series. However, the novelty was starting to wear off. Not that I didn't enjoy making these, I just got bored of the idea. This was to be the last year I go "all out" on Valentine's Day. Of course, I'm wishy-washy. I may catch the bug again and create some more some day, who knows? By the way, you may notice that these pieces have a copyright date of 2007. That's because these were so detailed that I started on them in September of 2007 to be released in February of 2008. Enjoy: I got the idea for this one when I happened upon a poster on the wall somewhere in San Francisco. I thought it would be a good idea if I parodied one of the most iconic images in american popular culture. This is the result. While I didn't pull off the painted look of the original, I like the end result. But I admit I took some creative liberties on my chest. I wish I had a six-pack like that! Ah, now we come to my favori...

My Valentine's Day cards were so popular in 2006, I decided to Do another round the following year. It was an exciting time for me. Ideas sprang up out of nowhere and I was bursting with creativity. It was around this time that I also came up with the concept for the "today I feel" comics. So without further ado, here is round two of the Valentine's Day series: I thought I'd do something dramatic for the series. Also, I was experimenting with Photoshop and wanted to give painting a try. This piece is a bit amateurish but I think I achieved what I set out to do. I love designs that are mostly black and white with splashes of color. I think the theme here, was that I was in a world of turmoil. The outside world was available to me, but I didn't want to venture into it. Instead, choosing to wallow in my sadness. Not exactly cheerful but it certainly reflected my mood at the time. This s a bit of a takeoff of the "Walk the Line" Poster by Shepard Fairey....

In 2006, I decided to make a nice gesture and send out Valentine's Day cards to my fellow lady coworkers. I really don't know why I decided to do it, I suppose I just caught the art bug. My coworkers seemed to really like them, though. I really had fun making these, so I decided to do it again the following year. For now, here is the complete set of 12 cards I designed: Any fan of The Beatles would recognize where I got the inspiration for this piece. This went through many drafts before I even came up with The Beatles design, however. Some of may favorite images came to be from a last minute idea. I think I wrote something really cheesy on the back of this one. Something like, "This Valentine's Day, Make the Commitment." Yeah, I'm a dork. Anyway, I was still finding my footing with computer graphic design. I think this one came out pretty good considering how unskilled I was at the time. I cringe when I see this one now. My line work needed well, "work...