Prismacolors

wheel of fortune - January 6, 1975

This is my first colorful drawing all done with Prismacolor pencils, and how appropriate that I chose to draw the 1970s edition of Wheel Of Fortune, hosted by Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford, back when it first debuted on NBC.

press your luck - 90s edition

A colorful depiction of one of my other favorite game shows, Press Your Luck. Considering how different the set looks comparing to both the 80s and the current versions, I made it as a way to ask myself this question. What would it been like if PYL came back in the 1990s after its cancellation in 1986? I think that they would bring back the same board with large TV monitors instead of the slide projectors showcasing the flashing lights on larger cash values with extra spins, the whammies, and added prizes like a trip to Egypt, a USA Tour, a high-tech desktop computer, and a 1991 Ferrari 512 TR as one of the grand prizes featured in the final round. While the gameplay is intact, there’s more higher stakes with cash and prizes. Not only that, they would add newly animated Whammies if a contestant hits one of them and lose all their winnings. And finally, Peter Tomarken would come back as host before parting ways to work with Game Show Network.

the ship of dreams

A beautifully drawn piece that's blended into warm and cool colors inspired by James Cameron's Titanic.

concorde's takeoff at sunset

A photogenic drawing referenced from a real photograph of the beautiful Concorde taking off at sunset. It's one of my favorite pieces to draw because I played around warm colors with blends that make this drawing strikingly atmospheric and realistic.

the ghost ship and the abyss

A fan-made colorful and dark drawing of a lost spacecraft, USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. This is a referenced depiction drawn from Disney’s The Black Hole, and the final product looked really cool in my opinion.

RMS QUEEN MARY

One of my favorite drawings of one of my favorite Cunard liners. For the watery look, I used white and celadon to blend each lighting effect to give it a natural look with waves drawn by my white gel pen. The attention to detail to me recreates one of the everlasting impressions to ever portray one of the finest luxury liners in the world. As a result, I felt that I accomplished it a whole lot.

the storm before the storm

A dark depiction of the legendary bulk carrier, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, sailing towards the waves that struck her in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.

a winner like no other

A photographic game show depiction of Michael Larson celebrating his win with his record-breaking cash prize of $110,237 after beating the game and its system in 1984.

green goddess

An atmospheric drawing of Cunard’s first liner to be built as a cruise ship. Nicknamed the Green Goddess, the Caronia was built and launched in 1947 and served for a dual-purpose to sail in multiple transatlantic crossings and first-class cruises until 1967. Unlike all Cunard sisters, the Caronia was known for her light green hull, which makes her unique for the time of her glory. By 1968, the ship was purchased by another cruise line and was briefly named the Caribia, and was laid up in New York in 1974. In the end, her days were numbered as she was sold for scrap in Taiwan. While being towed for scrapping, the ship crashed into the rocks beneath the breakwaters off the coast of Guam, and remained abandoned while broke into three sections and sank to the bottom unrecognized.

rms mauretania (1906)

A drawing of Cunard's RMS Mauretania. She was built and launched in 1906, and was the world’s largest ocean liner in the world, until the RMS Olympic took the title in 1910. Carrying over 2,100 passengers and crew, the Mauretania was known for her iconic sleek structure and her record-breaking speed that earned her the Blue Riband at the end of her maiden voyage. While serving for the Cunard Line, her sister the Lusitania was built as her identical twin until its tragic sinking on May 7, 1915. At WWI, both the Mauretania and her new sister the Aquitania, were requisitioned by the British government as they served as both hospital and troopships. By 1919, Cunard reconverted the Mauretania back to her original transatlantic ocean liner, going eastbound from Southampton to New York and back. With so many refits she had, the ship was eventually repainted and converted to a white cruise liner (as seen in the drawing) in 1930, and became a dedicated vessel to sail during the Great Depression. By the time the Mauretania became the longest and surviving ocean liner in her heyday, Cunard withdrew her prior to her retirement, and sold her for scrap at Rosyth, Scotland in 1935. Thus Cunard developed and built a modern ocean liner that would carry the Mauretania name from 1939 to 1965.

USNS General William O. Darby

A full drawing of the navy transporter, USNS General William O. Darby, and it was a gift for my grandfather who sailed on this exact ship during his time in the army.

the luckiest man in america

A referenced portrait of an infamous contestant named Michael Larson, an unemployed ice cream truck driver that broke the Press Your Luck big board system by memorizing the lighted patterns, and won $110,237 in cash and prizes. When a movie based on Larson's appearance came out in 2025, I wanted to work on this colorful drawing of him doing an instant cheer when he landed on that $3000 + One Spin square constantly. This drawing was based on the screenshot I referenced from the 2-part episode from 1984.

a crybaby in jeopardy

A Jeopardy! related drawing featuring Sailor Moon characters. This is a funny depiction of Usagi Tsukino whining about not getting the questions right as she left her friends Ami and Rei embarrassed at her behavior, and who could blame her?

rms queen mary 2

A drawing of a beautiful ocean liner that's so sleek that she’s as massive as any cruise ship today. She’s what I would call a masterpiece of engineering. A favorite ocean liner of mine, the RMS Queen Mary 2 is the current successor of Cunard’s QE2. Completed in 2004, she was built to be the last ocean liner to sail across the Atlantic from Southampton to New York. To date, she’s currently the flagship of Cunard’s current fleet, and is also the sister of the eldest vessel, the RMS Queen Mary. At the time of her humbled beginnings, she held a record for being the largest and longest passenger ship ever built. Until Royal Caribbean broke her record with their largest cruise liner, Freedom Of The Seas, was built in 2006, and the company keeps going bigger and bigger to this day. While the Queen Mary 2 served thousands of world voyage cruises, she kept the tradition of transatlantic travel. Her luxury and pleasurable leisure shows that she withstands as an icon to classic cruising.

ken jennings

A blue portrait of current Jeopardy! host and GOAT champion, Ken Jennings. This is one of the drawings that has lighting effects done by my white gel pen, while small details were traced with a micron pen. Meanwhile, the rest of the colors on the studio were colored with blues and purples while the browns and tans stand out as part of the Jeopardy! stage design. Believe it or not, this drawing was a gift for Ken himself, and I gave it to him during an afternoon taping at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, CA. He loved it, and he even commented on the set, the way he’s standing behind it, and the tie I colored him that’s full of white polka dots.

RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH

An atmospheric drawing of the Queen Mary's sister, the Queen Elizabeth. The photo of her sailing through Brooklyn was referenced from a grayscale photograph displayed in an exclusive album involving the sounds of her final voyage from 1968. I did some research on where exactly this photo was taken, and it turned out she sailed through the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and one of the bigger buildings seen in the drawing is the Brooklyn VA Medical Center.

the cinematic black panther

A different drawing of mine, and it's a black panther in space. You’re probably wondering where I got this idea from. This black panther was referenced from a French book cover I found on Google. The book cover in question is from a catalogue of 250 films produced and distributed by René Chateau. Which is why this black panther is a mascot from a French film distributor, Éditions René Chateau. Although I rarely draw animals, this piece is a great challenge I did, and I consider it another one of my favorites. It’s unique with its full representation of its identity that captures the memory of French cinema. Not to mention, the studio’s lineup of cult classics.

rms mauretania (1939)

A drawing of one of Cunard’s smaller steamships that carried the same name of their original 4-stack ocean liner, the RMS Mauretania. Following the merger between Cunard and White Star Line, the second Mauretania was completed in 1939, and was ready to carry her passengers and crew for her transatlantic cruises. Many would consider the new Mauretania as the smaller version of the RMS Queen Elizabeth due to the similar design between two ships. Same hull, a traditional cruiser stern, two tall funnels and masts from fore and aft, and similar deck arrangements around the lifeboats. Like the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, and the Aquitania, the Mauretania entered the war service as a troopship, carrying over 2,000 troops in bound for destinations like Panama, South Africa, the Suez, India, Singapore, and Canada from 1940 to ‘46. After the war, the Mauretania returned to be refitted as an ocean liner, and would continue her service until her conversion into a cruise ship in 1948. By 1962, the Mauretania would have a newly colored hull in cruising green, as seen in the drawing. So she would join her sister the Caronia as the two green goddesses. In her final years in service, the Mauretania would end her last voyage at Inverkeithing, Scotland where she’d be broken up for scrap on November 23, 1965.

white stallion

final approach

A collage featuring an American TWA Boeing 737-800 making a final approach above Long Beach, CA where both the Queen Mary and the cruise terminal dome became the main highlights in an aerial view. It’s not perfect by any means, but it paints an exotic picture of one of my all-time favorite places to visit.

A referenced photogenic drawing of a white stallion horse galloping in a ranch. This was my first attempt to give the horse movement between its hair and the legs, and they both flow between the body and the dirt within the sunlight aiming at it. Giving the horse a handsome spotlight in the drawing.