Gong-Li (10k GIF) (2000-11-21)
Chinese actress Gong-Li. One of these days I'm going to stop trying to ape Nagel's style and stop tracing photographs, neither of which I'm even doing very well. I actually made this in 1998, but I didn't like how it turned out and had to redo some portions. (I still don't like how it turned out.)
(Original photo, source unknown, 21k)

Pumpkinhead (65k JPEG/JFIF) (2000-07-11)
A manipulated photo of a McFarlane Toys' Pumpkinhead figure.

Lanfinger (50k JPEG/JFIF) (1999-12-18)
A composite of Berkeley CS professors James Landay and Paul Hilfinger that I made for fun. (No, they're not gay lovers.)

Seashells (25k JPEG/JFIF) (1999-11-11)
A nautilus shell and an auger shell Billy Martin and I made for a computer graphics course at Berkeley. We used procedural modeling to construct them, generated Renderman RIB files, and then rendered them using Blue Moon Rendering Tools. (Thanks to Brandon Kuczenski for figuring out the equations to the logarithmic spirals.)

Lamborghini Countach (19k GIF) (1999-04-21)
Another poor attempt at emulating Patrick Nagel's unique style, this time by tracing a Lamborghini Countach.
(Original photo, source unknown, 54k)

Ming-Na Wen #2 (20k GIF) (1998-07-30)
Ming-Na Wen in a quasi-neo-pop style, done completely with tonal and color adjustments.
(Original photo, source unknown, 90k)

Ming-Na Wen (14k GIF) (1998-07-03)
A weak attempt at tracing actress Ming-Na Wen in a wanna-be Patrick Nagel style.
(Original photo, source unknown, 26k)

Dragon #4 (23k JPEG/JFIF) (1998-06-15)
Another dragon from the 1997-10-31 scan that I attempted to color. I think I'll name him Percy.

Dragon #3 (56k JPEG/JFIF) (1998-05-29)
One of the dragons from the 1997-10-31 scan. Colored (rather poorly) with Painter and Photoshop. And I think "snarl" would have been better than "grrr," if only I had thought of it at the time...

Heart of Darkness (10k GIF) (1998-01-07)
Yet another SmartSketch doodle. Yeah, I botched the highlights and shadows (but when haven't I?).

Little Guy #2 (205 KB SVG) (1998-01-03)
It's Little Guy's first birthday (eh, close enough), and my, how he's grown.

Computer (244 KB SVG) (1997-12-29)
This is what happens when one stops drawing for almost an entire semester and tries to start again. And I thought I was bad before...

Sigh (26k JPEG/JFIF) (1997-08-19)
A pathetic, wanna-be attempt at graffiti. Yes, I am aware that the perspective is totally screwed up... sigh.

Oh No, More Filtered Faces (46k JPEG/JFIF) (1997-07-11)
Variations of my ugly mug... as if my face weren't screwed up enough already.

Stick Boy (4k GIF) (1997-05-31)
Supposedly me, but I'm skinnier, and my head is more inflated. No, I don't have encephalitis.

Argh! (3k GIF) (1997-02-07)
A doodle I made for the Current Gripes page. Included only for completeness, as it's otherwise way too puny to be worth putting here.
(Updated 1997-08-26)

Little Guy (7k GIF) (1997-01-01)
A teddy bear I doodled. I actually started this in the summer (1996) and did a rather cruddy job at coloring it. Luckily, I still had the line art, so I cleaned it up a bit and did a slightly less cruddy job at re-coloring it. This thing happens to make some rather nauseating desktop wallpaper (Windows BMP).

Dragon (26k GIF) (1996-12-31)

The Adventures of the Smiley-Face Warrior (1991-2)
A graphical, slightly interactive, completely mindless adventure game. In this case, at least, I can blame the bad art on drawing with a mouse.

This originally started off as a HyperCard stack on my friend Michael's Macintosh in the sixth grade. Somehow, Michael, with his infinite patience, put up with me for countless hours during the next couple years as I toiled over this ridiculous project. I think I'd spend several hours at his house after school at least once a week to create a piddly frame or two. After feeling guilty about consuming over 200k of his hard disk space with bad art and worse writing for so many years, I finally had all the images screen-captured and converted to GIFs, so now he can delete the silly thing.

Globs o' Goo (27k GIF) (1988? 1989?)
A design for a cereal box. I visited an MIT computer lab sometime in the fourth or fifth grade during my father's class reunion. Someone there had constructed (with far more advanced tools, of course) an amusing faux cereal box, and some time later I tried to copy the idea.

Needless to say, this thing is old. I remember making it in Microsoft Paint under Windows 2.0. (I don't even remember Windows 2.0.) Unlike its 3.0 successor, MS Paint at the time didn't have coloring capabilities, which is why it's entirely black and white. Almost all of this was done with a keyboard (what else would I use? a mouse?), and a good deal was done pixel-by-pixel. (Incidentally, when Windows 3.0 finally rolled around with its new version of MS Paint, I was quite irked that it no longer supported keyboard input...)

(Yes, I misspelled "recommended" and made a typo in "coloring." I am so ashamed.)