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A Guitar for Keenan
A Guitar for Keenan
Good friendships are like catchy songs, They’ll get stuck in your head for a long time.
This is Keenan, and tonight was his last night leading worship in the Senior High School Youth Group at Calvary Chapel Spring Valley. He is turning the pages of life into a brand new chapter where he will face many new adventures. However, before this chapter of his life gets covered with the proceeding…
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Sunset Mermaid "Up on the shore they work all day
Shoe
Shoe http://wp.me/s4dAy4-shoe
A good shoe will get you from Point A to Point B. A great shoe will get you all the way to Point Z.
Well this shoe didn’t quite get me to “Point Z” in a physical or spacial sense, but it did help me get to a further “point” in my skills as an artist. I may have mentioned before that I am not a huge fan of pencils, and I don’t typically leap at the thought of doing still life drawings; but I am…
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An Untitled Sketch
Not every sketch needs a name, but every name can be sketched.
Here is a quick sketch I did in one of my small sketchbooks. While many of the posts on this website are pieces I’ve done over the duration of the last few years, this one is hot off the presses as of this weekend.
Lately I have been pretty busy–work, life, etc.–and sometimes that has an adverse effect on my creative output. As a…
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The Librarian (A Father's Day Gift)
The Librarian (A Father’s Day Gift)
A good father is worth more than any amount of money; and a great father’s advice is worth its weight in gold.
In an attempt to create a society that is completely “paperless” and “environmentally conscious”, a series of multi-billion dollar robots called “The Librarians” are created for one, sole, singular purpose: To read, digitize, and recycle every molecule of printed material known to…
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In Memory of Aunt Barb
In Memory of Aunt Barb http://wp.me/s4dAy4-auntbarb
Death isn’t annihilation, it is merely separation.
At 12:30 A.M. this morning, my Great Aunt (AKA my Mother’s Aunt), Barbara Mitlyng, passed away. She had been battling lung cancer for the last few years and was recently hospitalized due to the effects it was having on her body. She was 66 years young and is survived by her husband (my Great Uncle), Al Mitlyng–as well as many others who held…
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The McKenzie Kids
Great Moms are measured by inches and feet (…or meters and centimeters).
I’ll just let that one set in for a bit…
Anyway, this is my Mom:
Last week was quite the eventful week for her; our family not only celebrated her amazingly successful career as a rearer of children (AKA “Mother’s Day”), but we also spent a night on the town for her birthday! In light of these two magnanimous occasions,…
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Seasoned Warrior
Technically, every battle is a “Boss Fight” when you’re a boss!
…And if there every was a character who deserves the title of “boss” it’s Link from The Legend of Zelda! He consistently gets the job done–He’s been saving the Princess Zelda (and sometimes the whole world too) for multiple generations…and he does it without saying a word. However, there is a paradox to Link: He is often depicted…
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Put Up Yer Dukes
Put Up Yer Dukes
Your two greatest assets in a boxing match: A long reach…and classy mustache.
Mario is classic. He is one of the characters I have grown up with–I’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. since I could hold a NES controller. Maybe that’s why he (as well as his brother, Luigi) is such a fun icon to put a twist on and draw in a number of different ways. As for this version of Mario, I had been…
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Antarctic Excursion
The quiet moments in life give us the chance to again relish our past quiet moments.
Here is the next installment in my “Church Sketch” series. It is a bit quaint, but that is part of its charm–it’s not an overly exciting action scene, but its impact is felt more in a quiet and tranquil way. After all, isn’t that how life is? Sometimes it is the calm moments and small things that mean the most…
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Compadres
Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life. -Man with No Name, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The year is 2012. This drawing was another birthday gift to my brother (see “Epic Luigi” for more of the story). It is a bit of a nod to him and his friend Dominic Byrnes. The odd part is that somehow, in my mind, “friendship” translates into gorillas, cheetahs, and the ol’…
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Insurmountable Odds?
When the odds seem unconquerable, move on to the evens.
The title of this piece is a rhetorical question. “Why is it rhetorical?” you might ask. Well the very demeanor and readiness to battle displayed by the protagonist in this image should provide a sufficient answer! Anyway, this piece was created at the tail end of my “ninja addiction”–in fact, this was the picture I needed draw in order to…
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Link's Visage
Link’s Visage
“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?” - Happy Mask Salesman, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
This sketch is hot of the press; I actually just drew it yesterday. This weekend I wanted to see what kind of detail I could get from using my Micron pens and Copic gray marker, so I decided to practice drawing celebrity portraits. However, being a fan of The Legend of Zelda, I thought I’d…
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Intrepid Beauty
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” -Pablo Picasso
Every once in a while, I just need to sketch something without a backstory–to simply draw for the sake of drawing. This is not a foreign concept to most artists; in fact, I would venture to guess it is the drive to capture beauty that transcends words and express concepts which are not always easy to explain…
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Epic Luigi
Epic Luigi
Never underestimate the power of green fire.
2012 was the year that I gave friends and family drawings as birthday gifts; of course it wasn’t the only year that I have given sketches as gifts, but it was the most notable…What? I was a little broke and needed something to give people after all. Anyway, this particular picture one of the two I gave my brother, Bryan McKenzie, for his 21st birthday.…
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Fire Ninja
Fire Ninja
A bright and burning ninja reveals the fire lurking in the shadows.
This is another one of the ninja drawings I made for my friend Josh (see “Nameless Assassin”for the whole story); except this is one of the pictures he decided to keep. The real focus of this piece is “animation”–the ninja in the picture is a relatively basic shadow warrior, but the action shots are what make this drawing more…
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Avocados
Avocados http://wp.me/s4dAy4-avocados
How can you trust a fruit with fat content?
Avocados have long perplexed me; but over the years, I’ve progressively overcome my distrust of these intriguing, green fruits. However, this painting was not necessarily part of the “healing process” for me, but it was actually another homework assignment from AIS–it was an exercise in properly mixing paints to make different shades, tints, and hues.…
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