The Gate Keeper

The Best Baristas!

Every morning, around 7:48, I stop at Tazza d’Amore to get my cup of coffee for the road. It’s a small little kiosk at the train station, and this is must be the busiest time of the day. But no matter how long the line is, and how cranky the commuters are, these guys always welcome you with a smile, and serve the coffee super fast. Thank you for a bright start!

Baseball Season

This is pretty much how my commute feels like during Baseball season… 

More San Francisco sketching

And learning from the amazing Matt Jones.. Ways to go....

Cleaner

The party is over

I made this one for the Troll challenge on the Avalanche blog.

and some sketches from meetings and such.

I had a blast being here this summer, but it's time to go back to school now.

Time to make a film!!!

How did summer pass so fast??

more friends, and a rhino...

work...

Hey everybody... I just got back home from a week in Sinai, Egypt... It's an amazing place and has been a great vacation from a busy summer, and I now feel very ready to go back to school... in 19 days I'll be heading back to Sarasota, and I have so much to do before that... I have a lot of work in progress that I hope to get done before school starts... meanwhile, this is a piece I did last week as birthday gift for friends of my parents ... I'm quite happy with it, although I now think I could accent the shadows some more, and in general work on defining the light some more... but, this is just another step in the ladder I guess... I'll be posting some more work really soon.. I hope... thanks!

Chris

Summer time

Hello! Well, unbelievably my first year at Ringling has passed. Looking back it went so fast, but it was a great year. The last couple of month were really intense, so it's great to be back home and recharge. I haven't updated for quite a while, but now that I have some extra time I'll try to post new stuff quite often. I have a lot of plans for this summer so stay tuned... as for now, here are a few caricatures of my fellow Ringlingers. I love doing these, so this was a nice way warm up and start my summer. hopefully these are recognizable (for the Ringling students among you)... if not, well, I guess it means more practice ;)
Have a great summer everybody!

friends...

just a couple of caricatures I did recently.... I really appreciate people who can capture the character of someone in a good caricature, and it is something I am trying to get better at... so these are a couple of attempts, messing around with different styles...