January | 2012 | Johnathan Martel's Art and stuff.

Beat up spaceship.

Now for something a bit different! I love sci-fi and I don’t draw stuff like this enough.

January 31, 2012 | Categories: Art, ballpoint pen, black and white, illustration, lunch sketches, moleskine sketchbook, Pen and ink, sci fi, science fiction, sketchbook, Uncategorized | Tags: art, ballpoint pen, black and white, moleskine, pen and ink, sci-fi, science fiction, sketchbook | Leave A Comment »

A sketchy dude

January 30, 2012 | Categories: Art, ballpoint pen, black and white, illustration, lunch sketches, moleskine sketchbook, Pen and ink, psychedelic, sketchbook, Uncategorized | Tags: Ate, black and white, guy, illustration, moleskine, pen and ink, sketchbook | Leave A Comment »

Ok folks, until I get my stuff together with the Etsy store I’ll be using Society 6 to sell prints. Here is a link to the Doomed Astronaut. It can be ordered in several sizes, so have a look and thanks to anyone who picks one up!

http://society6.com/swervdriven/doomed-astronaut_Print

January 30, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Astronaut, ok folks, prints | Leave A Comment »

Sketch from last night.

January 28, 2012 | Categories: Art, ballpoint pen, black and white, illustration, moleskine sketchbook, Pen and ink, psychedelic, sketchbook, surrealism, Uncategorized | Tags: art, ballpoint, black and white art, pen and ink, Sketch | Leave A Comment »

Hair

Here is one I’ve been messing with for a couple days. I love getting abstract with hair, it’s another subject that you can turn your brain off with and just draw.

January 27, 2012 | Categories: Art, black and white, illustration, Ink and Brush, lunch sketches, moleskine sketchbook, Pen and ink, psychedelic, sketchbook, surrealism, Uncategorized | Tags: art, black and white, girl, hair, illustration, moleskine, pen and ink, Pentel, sketchbook, surreal | 4 Comments »

Doomed Astronaut

Here is the finished product for the Doomed Astronaut. Between 10 and 15 hours. Farber Castell Pitt pen & FW acrylic ink on bristol. 11″x17″. Let me know what you guys think.

This will be the first print that hits my Etsy store. I’ll keep everyone posted on that.

Click to Zoom.

January 26, 2012 | Categories: Art, black and white, farber castell, illustration, Ink and Brush, Pen and ink, poster, Uncategorized | Tags: art, Astronaut, black and white, brush, comics, illustration, Ink, ink & brush, paper, print | 5 Comments »

Boar and guts

Ok, this is kinda gross, but I had a great time making it. I used a Pentel brush pen, watercolors, a white gel pen and some farber castell markers. Enjoy!

January 25, 2012 | Categories: Art, farber castell, gouache, illustration, Ink and Brush, markers, moleskine sketchbook, psychedelic, sketchbook, surrealism, Uncategorized, watercolors | Tags: art, gore, guts, Ink, watercolor, wild boar | Leave A Comment »

Lunch break skull

Skulls are fun when you don’t really want to think. This was an easy subject to fool around with some cross hatching on.

January 24, 2012 | Categories: Art, black and white, illustration, lunch sketches, moleskine sketchbook, Pen and ink, sketchbook, surrealism, Uncategorized | Tags: art, black and white, lunch sketch, pen and ink, skull | 2 Comments »

Another quickie…

Started this while waiting for Casey Weldon to speak at the baton rouge gallery, finished it up and did the red tint and highlights last night.

January 23, 2012 | Categories: Art, farber castell, gouache, illustration, lunch sketches, moleskine sketchbook, Pen and ink, psychedelic, sketchbook, surrealism, watercolors | Tags: art, Gouache, Ink, moleskine, pen, psychedelic, sketchbook, surreal, watercolor | Leave A Comment »

Don’t ask…

Only a select few know from whence the bearcat came…

January 21, 2012 | Categories: Art, ballpoint pen, illustration, Ink and Brush, lunch sketches, moleskine sketchbook, Pen and ink, sketchbook, surrealism, Uncategorized, watercolors | Tags: art, bearcats, Bears, cats, Ink, ink & brush, moleskine, sketchbook, watercolor | 2 Comments »

Sketchy stuff

More lunch break material. The skull guy is the recent chest cold I had.

In other news the astronaut is done and I’ll put the finished work up soon as I get a good scan of it. Here’s a sneak peek until then.

January 16, 2012 | Categories: Art, ballpoint pen, black and white, illustration, Ink and Brush, lunch sketches, moleskine sketchbook, Pen and ink, poster, psychedelic, skull, surrealism, Uncategorized | Tags: ballpoint, flower, illustration, ink and brush, moleskine, pen and ink, sketchbook, skull | 2 Comments »

More astronaut progress

Here is another work in progress shot for the doomed astronaut. Now that the figure is finished I just need to figure out the background.

January 13, 2012 | Categories: Art, black and white, farber castell, illustration, Ink and Brush, Pen and ink, poster, psychedelic, surrealism, Uncategorized | Tags: art, comics, garner castell, illustration, pen and ink, poster, surreal | 1 Comment »

When it rains, it pours…

Oh my, two new posts in two days! What are the chances of this happening again? (not good.)

Here are some new scans from my current 3×5″ moleskine, the poor thing fell out of my pocket Christmas eve and was drizzled upon for about ten hours before I found it in the driveway Chrismas Day. HOORAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS! =\

Luckily the damage wasnt’ as bad as I would have thought other than some slight rippling of the pages. A bit of Photoshop trickery was used in getting some of the imperfections those waves caused during scanning.

Combine