Work in Progress update - lineart

I may need to rescan and stitch this thing together... awkward 8'' x 11'' scans of a 16 x 20'' drawing make me very, very sad. Here it is for now though.


The colors should come soonishly.

The Stranger

An illustration recently completed for The Stranger . Check out the article! It's a great story.

More WiP and a quick ink sketch

I'm working on a another 16x20''(ish) ink piece. It's been fun loosening up for this one, it's sort of meditative. The best part is this piece has been sitting penciled and in my corner since I moved out of the MFA studios a month or so ago, so it's nice to finally toss some inks on it. The other smaller sketch is just my time killer while I was sitting in Red Mango drinking a fruit shake. Enjoy!

some inks

Work in progress, work for fun... tigers to be added later. May go for lions though just to be "different". Too many damn tigers in illustration these days.... no offense to tiger lovers out there.

Ehhr...

So I didn't quite make it to that page a day goal. I have a good excuse, really.

No... no really. it's a good one.
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...Look over here.

It's a clown on a unicycle juggling hula hoops of fire! --Soon there will be tigers jumping through these hula hoops. This is an inside joke...so, no one is going to understand it, but this might turn out to be the cover art for my bands ep when we get around to recording a crap one. I drum and I love it. I swear if I wasn't making art, that'd be a full time profession and life for me. Wait, I said I had a good excuse right? Maybe next time.

Day - "18"

Ha! Last one. I promise. It's like a disease.

Be back 7/23?

May be unable to post for a few days. I'm about done exorcising these beasts thankfully. I'm a little tired of them, so that's a good sign. I need to push my personal visual metaphors a bit.

Day 16 - Part 2

I couldn't sleep until I tossed this up. I guess that means I'm disciplined? Thanks for checking this out day to day whoever you amazing people are. I appreciate it. I haven't exactly been creating the most glorious and conceptually deep work in that past weeks, but eh I guess that's what sketchbooks are for.

Originals for Sale - Reduced Prices

Reduced the price on Peaceoffering and The Meat Market.

The following god awful photos are to prove that these pieces exist. All sales will be through paypal only. Send me an email (ray@jonesray.com) with the title of the piece in the subject line and include a mailing address and your name in the email. I'll get back to you with a payment request from Paypal. When I recieve your payment I'll send you an email confirming it, and I'll mail the piece out to you within 2 days if not the same day. If the piece is already in the process of being sold I'll let you know when you've emailed me asking about it or it'll be posted up here as SOLD.

If for some reason the payment request isn't paid within 48 hours I'll assume you're not interested/ changed your mind, and I'll cancel the request and it will become available for purchase again. Serious inquiries only pleeease. I need to eat. Thanks!



The Meat Market (16'' x 20'') + Inkjet Print of Illustration (13'' x 19''): $150.00 (includes S&H)


Peaceoffering (20'' x 16'') + Inkjet Print of Illustration (19'' x 13''): $150.00 (includes S&H)


The following are in the 8.5'' x 11'' price range and more then likely do not include a print, unless for some reason I find one, then you'll get the print free of charge.


Trees become the Wolves (12'' x 11.5''): $60.00

"Tree Skull/ Drown in the Woods/ Quiet Breeze": $60.00

Day - "14"

Sketchbook work in progress.... sure why not. I don't think I'll ever get tired of drawing these pseudo-wolf-bear-drooly-beasts.

Day - ... ?

I've lost count. I think I'm behind by eh, 1 -2 now? Playing sketchbook catch up... it's sad really, haha. Here they are.

Day 10 - ish

The PATH train during the AM hours has some very interesting people. On a side note Hellboy II is pretty good, worth seeing if only for Del Toro's creatures alone.

Day 8 -ish

Double Page... I tend to beat myself up, even in my sketchbook. Which isnt great considering its the only place I shouldn't be beating myself up ha. Another set of pages I'm not to sure about, just noticing some habits.

Originals for Sale

The following god awful photos are to prove that these pieces exist. All sales will be through paypal only. Send me an email (ray@jonesray.com) with the title of the piece in the subject line and include a mailing address and your name in the email. I'll get back to you with a payment request from Paypal. When I recieve your payment I'll send you an email confirming it, and I'll mail the piece out to you within 2 days if not the same day. If the piece is already in the process of being sold I'll let you know when you've emailed me asking about it or it'll be posted up here as SOLD.

If for some reason the payment request isn't paid within 48 hours I'll assume you're not interested/ changed your mind, and I'll cancel the request and it will become available for purchase again. Serious inquiries only pleeease. I need to eat. Thanks!



The Meat Market (16'' x 20'') + Inkjet Print of Illustration: $200.00 (includes S&H)


Peaceoffering (20'' x 16'') + Inkjet Print of Illustration: $200.00 (includes S&H)


The following are in the 8.5'' x 11'' price range and more then likely do not include a print, unless for some reason I find one, then you'll get the print free of charge.


Trees become the Wolves (12'' x 11.5''): $60.00

"Tree Skull/ Drown in the Woods/ Quiet Breeze": $60.00


Trial of the Jena Six + Print of Illustration: SOLD

Day 7 - 1

Drawn while waiting for my Laundry to dry today.

Day...six?

Six? It's the 8th now isn't it? I guess I'm making 2 tomorrow...today. Can't say I like this, but it's nice to get it out of my system before the Fall semester.

Day 5

Sometimes I worry about my interest/ease at drawing meaty animal doom without reference. Luckily I don't have nightmares that often.

Day 4

There's something I can't stand about this, but here it is.

Day 3 -sketchblargh

"I think ... you bring the rain with you." - Yuriko

Maybe.

Ouch

Almost a month since my last post! No good. Here are some sketchbook-ish works I've made in the last two days. Basically I'm just tossing ink on a page and then making something out of it, just to keep a habit of working. It's also nice to take a break from digital coloring.

There's too much free time over the summer, and free time is bad(sometimes good). I'm hoping for about a piece a day this month, if I can upload a new piece at the end of the day I will, but expect to see them pop up in groups of 2-3. By the end of July I'll have enough material to finish... something, or at least a pile of crap I can look at and admire for it's sheer quantity.

Day 1 (which may evolve into the cover of my book, whenever it creates itself.)

Day 2 (Nothing special to say about this. Just fun to draw.)

Thanks for checking out the work!