I haven’t worked with color illustration in some time, and this illustration got me back into it. I thought “How do I translate blue LEDs under the scoot into black and white?” and decided I would choose instead to just speak the original tongue instead – color. Here’s the result…

Smoking. Smoking is near the top of my list for life changes. Picking it up? Noooo, silly! Quitting smoking. Not a moment too soon, I might add. I’m undergoing a number of life changes at the moment, and I decided this was the perfect opportunity to quit smoking once and for all. At my partner’s [...]

A Japanese study has determined that riding a motorcycle help keep you young, and makes your brain sharper and more perceptive…
Riding motorcycles helps keep drivers young by invigorating their brains, the scientist behind popular “Brain Training” computer software said Wednesday, citing a new scientific study.
“The driver’s brain gets activated by riding motorbikes” in part because [...]

Tokyo Scoot 2
11×14 – Watercolor Pencils on Bristol Plate
Another illustration in the series of custom Japanese scooters. This one is of a stretched and lowered Yamaha Grand Majesty in traffic, its rider in the familiar leaned-back stance that the custom extended handlebars encourage. Some scooterists in Tokyo are leaned back SO far that they’re [...]

Best Buy is getting into the motorcycle business… sort of. Brammo, an Oregon company who produces the Ariel Atom, released news that they will be shipping units of their new Enertia electric motorcycle to select Best Buy locations on the West Coast (read story here).The new bike takes three hours to charge, has a 45-mile [...]