Good Bye Lost...We'll Miss You

Unless you live under a very large rock, then you probably know that the amazing TV Series "Lost" has come to an end. Well, it was about two years ago that we got really into the show and needles to say, we have been hooked ever since. It was sometime during last season (season 5 ) that my wife Crystal surprised me with one of my favorite drawings of all time, an awesome sketch of Hurley! As the season went on she gave me several more sketches... John Locke....Miles.... and so with the closure of the show, she gave me a few more sketches for old time sake, I guess as a final send off ....Sawyer (which best illustrates how I feel about the show ending)....



Ben Linus aka Henry Gale aka Snake in the grass .... and who better than "chesty" Frank Lipidus. These are amazing babe, hopefully I can get some more if we ever re-watch the series!

If you haven't seen Lost, check it out!

"Sad Sawyer"
"Ben Linus"
"Chesty Frank Lipidus"
Colored Pencil
Crystal Wragg
2010

Possible "LOST" Spoiler Alert

So this is quickly becoming a partial Crystal's sketches / Lost blog, which is great since these are two of my favortie things in the world. After last weeks episode of Lost, which was amazing, my wife dissapeared for a while. While she didin't travel through time, she had indeed travled upstais into my art studio, letting destiny play itself out. Moments later I was given this amazing sketch. Miles and all of his troubles. It had been a while since the last drawing, and I wasn't sure if I was going to get another. These awesome sketches seem to be as random as the white flashes on the island. I'm still hoping for a one of Henry Gale but I feel it will be one I never see. Either way, I should just listen and trust in Daniel Faraday... what's happend has happend. You can't change it!

GO SPARTANS!

April 6th:
When I'm not drawing and painting, I love watching and playing sports. I absolutely love basketball, and tonight my favorite college basketball team (Michigan State)is playing for the National Championship. While I'm from California, I have family roots in East Lansing and my Aunt and Uncle worked for the school for years. Not much else to say about this quick painting other than I felt like drawing the school mascot "The Spartans" as I would like to imagine them going into this game ready to kill. I hope they win.

April 7th:
UNC destroyed us last night to put it nicely. Oh well, there's always next year.

You should have believed me!

So I'm hoping this becomes a regular thing here, my wife suprised me with a little John Locke magic the other night, and what better time to post it than before tonight's soon to be awesome episode. Now I like Jack as much as the next guy, but let's be honest, if there are two paths in the jungle, you always go with Locke.

"You Should Have Believed Me"
Colored Pencil
Crystal Wragg

Lost Season 5 Tonight!

So over the past year my wife Crystal and I have finally jumped onto the LOST wagon, and have watched all the episodes to be finally caught up with the series. My wife doesn't draw that often but when she does, I'm her biggest fan. She usually fills my sketchbooks with mean charicatures of me, but the other day she didn't draw me, she drew something different. While we were watching some of season 3, she took on Hurley and it's awesome!! In a perfect world, she would draw all the characters for me, but for now all I get is Hurley. The new season airs tonight, and it's going to be awesome!

"Hurley"
Pen Sketch
by Crystal Wragg

!Coming Soon! The BEST day of my life!

In the coming weeks I will be blessed and officially sworn in as the luckiest guy in the universe. I'm going to be getting married to the love of my life, my best friend, and favorite person in the whole world. I hate to gush and brag, but when times like these give you so much joy and happiness, I find it hard to hold back my true feelings. Crystal you are the best thing that has ever happened to me, you are my source of joy, laughter, love and inspiration, and I can't tell you how happy I am to be spending the rest of my life with you. Our day is soon on it's way and I can't hardly wait.

These are some of our engagement pictures taken by our inspiring photographer Jeff Newsom. He's hands down my favorite photographer, his blog will only convince you all even more so.

Muir Woods

So this weekend my fiancee thought it would be a good idea if I took a break from drawing and painting 24/7 and spent some time outdoors for a change. So Crystal and I set out to explore Muir Woods. For those of you who don't live around the San Francisco area or haven't heard of Muir Woods, it's a forest / park north of the city near the town of Marin. Anyways, it was awesome to say the least, we had a great time and it was exactly what I needed to get a great break. The funny thing is, is that the bulk of these pictures were taken before we even got to the park, we had to park so far away that as we were walking to the park, we came across a small trail / path off the side of the road and thought we'd have a look. It seemed like the kind of place we'd come across David the Gnome and some Trolls, just a little too nice and fanciful. Anyways, here are some of the pics, just no gnomes. Sorry about that.


Crystal leading me down a lovely Thomas Kinkade-esqe path to certain death


Some nice flowers


Still smiling about leading me into a Thomas Kinkade forest of pain


The best view of me


Probably one of the only pictures taken inside the Muir Woods park


My favorite picture of the day!

My Little Miss Perfect

One of the best things about having your fiancee as your best friend is when you're at home after work, you always have your favotite person around to hang out with. However, when playing guitar hero with your same favorite, things can get competative. My fiancee Crystal and I are hooked to this plastic guitar shredding game and it's awesome! And since we both too want to be awesome, when it comes to battling, the gloves come off. We both really enjoy the old little Miss and Mr. series ( sorry but I'm terrible with names, and can't remember the guys name who created all these little characters ) anyways, we both love his work and those little characters always remind me of her, so I thought I would make one special for Crystal and all her awesome guitar hero playing skills. I had such a blast making this cute little sour character for her, and everytime I see this drawing it just reminds me of how I love how competitive we get, and how I love how much fun we have playing those little plastic guitars.

Happy Birthday Love

So about 2 weeks ago my fiancee Crystal celebrated her 23rd birthday and rather than just buying her a nice present I really wanted to make her something special. Something that you can't just get in a store. So in my downtime, I worked on this painting for her and suprised her with it on her birthday. Anyways, happy birthday love!