Put bolts on it!

A giant bolt for a jaw pivot. Why? Clearly I don't know what I'm doing. So... add more hoses!!

Regularly Irregular Update

Sketches from July and September, I believe.

It's a post!

Doodles from june. I've been thinking about creatures more these days.

Just some doodles, a photo study. Trying to draw some co-workers in the corner there.

Photo Study

Here is a photo study I did over lunch.I should have a reference URL somewhere around here... (rummage rummage, crash! thump tinkle tinkle)... ah, here it is. One day I'll learn what colors are.

Also, this is from a few months ago. I was going through my digital sketchbook, which is a folder full of half-ass abandoned files. Each month had its own file, but I've been slacking so much lately that each month only had one or two drawings. To satisfy whatever weird compulsion to have files with a bazillion layers in it, I collected all the months into one file. I think I did it since sometimes a sketch straddles a month and then I can never decide whether I should keep it in the file it started in, or the file it was finished in. Why I felt it necessary to explain all this, we may never know.

the sheriff's office

Oops, I forgot some details like the sheriff sign and seating for the Sheriff and his buddy... what was his name... Otto?

It has been a while

Bill Maher, you magnificent bastard. I wanted to do a real quick memory impression sort of sketch of his smarmy, self-aggrandizing smirk as he lays into the christians once again. With apologies to my dear christian friends! I wanted to keep the values to a minimum and use a very large brush and just jam it out.

Unrelated, there are wee little gnat things that keep buzzing around my monitors. I only succeed in smooshing them occasionally, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Ah, the swamplands of Illinois, you're either freezing or crawling with bugs.

summer dry spell

quick morning doodle. this is kinda me. i drew it planning to use it for my IM avatar. while i usually have 2 eyes, i have lately taken to using a trick explained on mythbusters a while back. they tested the use of eyepatches by pirates to keep one eye sensitive in low light so when they went below decks, they could flip the eyepatch up and still see. since i've been staying up late working at night, i prefer to navigate the house without flipping on lights, disturbing Nicole's sleep. stopping in to the bathroom to brush my teeth requires lights. in order to make it to bed without murdering my toes on the bed frame or stepping on the dog's ball, i close one eye while in the lighted room. once out in the dark, i can see pretty well out of the dark eye. i can make it into bed successfully, even though i experience a strange cyclopic sensation.

Pigs in Spaaaace

Lots of awesome pickin' pigs:
Guy Francis
Stacy Curtis
Jack Foster
Greg Wallace
Jeff Overturf
Sam Reed
Mark Harmon
Greg Newbold
Doug Jones
Sean Ashby
Eric Barclay
Shane Lewis
Paula J Becker
Jannie Ho

Pickin' Down by the Creek

Here's another banjo lovin pig. Check out the other artists who are offering up pickin pork.
Stacy Curtis
Jack Foster
Greg Wallace
Jeff Overturf
and of course, the guy who started it: Guy Francis

I was watching the BBC's Office Christmas specials while I worked on this. I had forgotten how much more raw and brutal their version is compared to the US version. Excellent show, great characters.

Piggy Mountain Breakdown

NOOO a pun for a title! ah well. Awesome illustrator, Guy Francis, threw down a pig banjo challenge. Since pigs are awesome, and I aspire to play the banjo, I thought I would join in. Here is my pig:

Why Didn't I Go to Bed An Hour Ago?

Hell hath no fury, etc.

Corey

Here's Corey from LA Ink. Nicole and I got sucked in again after swearing it off. Then we missed the last episode of the season, so we got no resolution. Here's the ref:

morning warmups!

Landscape Study

Photo Reference:
Fat Tailed Dunnart

Photo Reference:

This one I did all by myself!

Gina Welch

Here's this morning's warmup. I had set up my timer for 10 minutes... then I took what I thought was a couple more minutes to kinda tweak the hair and eyes and a couple other things. That turned into another 10 minutes. So this is my 10 minute sketch that took 20 minutes.

Gina Welch was my subject. I listened to an interview on the Skepticality podcast, then watched a video on her website. I was struck by her crazy eyebrows and this quirky way she holds her upper lip while she talks.

white collar

15 minutes at lunch

belting out a drunken jam

Just a quick morning warmup. I used this photo as inspiration, but tried to translate the guy around into a different position, so as to not completely ripoff the photo. His hand is so wrong it makes me want to make vomits. Note to self: draw more hands.

sketches (obviously)

Mar 10 - She's from a photo. I don't have the URL anymore
Mar 11 - Lunch time topic: Wombat
Apr 16 - morning warmup - 10 minutes - ref

morning warmups

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Weekend Disaster"

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Robbery"

lunch time speed topic 20 minutes
"Cloud Fortress"

Morning Warmup Photofailure
Source

love me two times

PZ Myers

Lucy, For Trevor

National Geographic's Photo of the Day