Lego Frank Lloyd Wright House: Usonian

Lego has a very cool cad program where you can build and design your very own creation, and when you are done, you can buy the kit! This kit would cost $213.31, that's not going to happen in this recession. but I can enjoy an unlimited amount of Lego with out all the mess.

While nursing a day long hangover, I built a model of a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian inspired house.


I got the architectural reference plans from this site.


The home is an approx 350 square foot house, with all the amenities of a plastic house. No heat or a/c and nor a washer hook up. But only plastic people can live here, so I don't think they will mind.

Here are some shots from Lego's simulated realistic environments:

Here are the screen shot details so you can see what the inside looks like.

 Opps I left the pizza on the counter. 

Here you can see the tiny breakfast nook

 I think I found a fun new medium. 

Separated: Illustration Friday

My interpretation of I.F's topic of "separated" was this painting of Mu Guai the Happiness Warrior, carring this young lady back home. 

If anyone else has ever been lost, or separated from their loved ones, the feeling you get when you are finally rescued is of such great relief.  

Wanna buy it? Get it on Etsy for $20!

Free Book

I wanted to pass the work around that my first eBook is available for download--FREE!!!

Titled "Sketch-ed, a look inside my head"

"Doug Land is a seemingly unknown illustrator with a wonderful sense of personal narration. This short, twenty page book features art from the sketchbooks of Doug Land as he traveled from teenage angst into the toga cloth of college life, and steadily into a nine to five job that ended with a battle from Unemployment. In the book he describes the backdrop for many of the sketches, as they serve as a visual biography for his rich personal history. The book ends as all good books do: with a monkey holding a sword. The book is a free to download and available for sharing, in an attempt to spread his name far and wide."

Now most of you don't have eReaders, worry not--I don't either, but I found that Adobe has a solution

Adobe Digital Editions

Its an easy download for the reader and and even easier download for the book.

My Book

Lulu.com (the publisher) tells me that if the book passes inspection that the book will be available for the Barnes & Noble eStore and the Amazon Kindle. 

Let me know what you think!

Sketch Books

To Whom it may concern: 

These are my sketchbooks. Before any of my projects can take concrete shape, they start here, in one of these books

I have always kept a sketch book on me since I was 15. Many of my friends,  teachers, co-workers and family members have seen me marking up the paper in some attempt to get the idea out of my head and on to paper. 

Once an image makes it to paper I then play and twist and reorder the idea to maximize its greatness. But sometimes a good idea is so awesome that it need no tweaking. In a few days I will be releasing a small paperback Compilation book featuring my favorite sketches. I will post a link once I get the eBook kinks worked out of it. 

For now, enjoy the menu tab at the top of the blog marked 

"Sketch Book Pages"

Vinyl Vampire

I think this character could make it into a great stop motion film.

The Vinyl Vampire.

He was once a Pokemon that I bought at a Toys-R-Us for $3 in the clearence bin. I guess he wasn't as Awesome as Bandai would have hoped, but with a little nail polish remover, and some acrylic paint, BAAAM! Vinyl Vampire. 

His eyes can undulate!

He has a pocket watch so he's not late for dinner. CHOMP!

And yes he had two carnaries living inthe back or his head. the one canary has brought the other flowers. Aweee. 

"dreaming"