Nothing like an afternoon filled with doodling. I’ll try to upload some of the others too. This is an awful iphone capture, so… you know. =)

I’m really excited about a new series I’ve started working on. I’m not sure what to call it yet so naming suggestions are welcome. This is the first piece and it’s still not finished, but I really wanted to share a few low-lighting photos.

Quite like this one. Might be worthy of wall space.

I’ve been experimenting with Ink today, painting to the sounds of Esperanza Spaulding’s new album, Chamber Music Society.

Sometimes an illustration can look so wonderful in your head that no matter how long you work on it, it will never really be as good. My guess is that with practice, your craft will approach that point of perfection. I am very far from that point. Nonetheless, “practice makes perfect” and so I decided to post this recent piece I’ve worked on, that I fondly call “Lugs for Men.”

There are so many things wrong with it, that I couldn’t possibly list them all. I didn’t do great on perspective here. In general, the use of space leaves something to be desired. I must have tried 3-4 different color schemes and settled on this one mostly because none of the other ones were any better. I wanted to highlight the lonely little guy outside, but not sure I’ve done the best job. I tried a few coloring styles and decided to go with non-gradient shading but that might be distracting from the line work. In the end, I almost wish I didn’t bother coloring it at all.

Anyways, enough navel-gazing. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

If anyone is interested, here is the line work without the coloring (click to see larger version.) Feel free to color it yourself if you are so inclined! Just let me know if you do, I’d love to see it.

I’m a bit behind on my painting queue but I just finished this one. It’s heading to NY.

This is a painting I did back in September as a birthday gift.

… I would probably fail the class, but here’s one I’ve been working on anyways: By the Red Line.

By the Red Line by ireneros

In light of this administration’s push towards open data and transparency, the folks at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation released a tremendous amount of data about the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority).

One of the many efforts by the massDOT (Massachusetts Department of Transportation) group has been to create a development community around this vast amount of data, which you can read more about here.

I decided to answer their call for entries to a Visualization Challenge with a project I call A Day of MBTA.

I would love to hear your feedback.

Although not a recent discovery, the Brushes iPhone app is pretty fantastic when traveling. I’ve painted a few quick doodles with it and figured, I might as well share.