Art & Design High School in NYC holds its Draw-a-Thon (day-long life drawing event) in the Spring and Fall of each year. These are some of my favorite sketches from this spring’s Draw-a-Thon 9.

In all the hubbub surrounding MoCCAFest, I forgot to post some of my recent sketches. First, a pair of sketches from a Sketch Night held at the Society of Illustrators just prior to MoCCAFest. The theme that night was “Star Trek First Contact Day” Next up, some sketches of model Amy Hope from this month’s Drink …

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Here are photos of some of my MoCCA Festival “Speed Sketching” customers with their commissions.   Fun  commissions not pictured (because I forgot to ask customers for photos): “Portrait of a Young Boy Stomping Godzilla,” “Black Panther Jumping Over a Log,” and  “Wonder Woman Working at IT Desk” among others. I was overall very pleased …

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If you didn’t get a chance to stop by and chat with me about my comics during MoCCA Festival, here’s the next best thing: an interview recorded with podcaster Jimmy Aquino for his Comic News Insider – Episode 840 (follow the link for a free download or find it on iTunes)! This episode also includes Jimmy’s …

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MoCCA Arts Festival is this weekend (April 7-8 at Metropolitan West) and I will be trying out something new this year: “PENNY-PER-SECOND” SKETCHES for which customers can commission timed sketches via either (Option A) STOPWATCH Sketching in which payment is based on exactly how long it takes me to complete a given drawing -or- (Option …

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For this month’s Sketch night, Anyone Comics brought in a Green Lantern cosplayer to model for us. For some of the poses, I drew him as Sinestro.

My table assignment for this year’s MoCCA Fest is #G-242

Brooklyn comics shop Anyone Comics celebrated its first anniversary with a special Drink-N-Draw featuring models cosplaying as DC characters Batgirl and Nightwing.

Sketches from The Society of Illustrators’ “Circus” themed Sketch Night featuring performers from The Unholy Sideshow.

On Saturday afternoon, I went to the “Artist’s Lounge” (a monthly drink-and-draw hosted by The Way Station in Brooklyn) where burlesque performer Betty Brash modeled for us costumed as Susie Q (apparently a teenaged ghost from the eponymous Disney Channel movie).