Black [Thursday,] Friday & Afterwards

Merry Christmas

Cats/Shopping

coming home from work, I counted 9 cats in the road but I'm sure there where more.

Bowling themed doodles

I just realized that clowns and bowlers have similar wardrobes.

Dentist/Goalie

Plants/Halloween

Friendly Portrait

This is my friend Ken. He says hi. He has a robust Mexican mustache. Because that's where he lives most of the time.

Secret passage/Long arm of the law

It turns out that my cousin Micah isn't the one who went through the secret passage when we were little. But I can't remember who it was. So I'll be asking around on that one.

Wisdom Teeth

If you need me, I'll be at the dentist getting my wisdom teeth extracted.

Sermon notes/Mysterious Chocolate

White elephants

Thanksgiving

Sketchbook/Sherbet

"Who are these people?" you may ask... Let me be clear. Liam is my brother. He's the one I gave a sketchbook to. Also Brice is my brother. Gwynnie is one of his daughters, so she's my niece. Jesse is also a brother to us but he's not in this post. Neither is Beth. But Beth isn't a brother anyway. Neither is she a niece. So in short, you probably just need to know that the people in this post are some my relatives.

Liam drew his version of receiving the sketchbook. I'll see if I can get him to scan it and send it to me.

Stone age smart car

This doodle was created a little backwards... for me anyway. I started out in Adobe Illustrator and finished up in Photoshop. That's the reverse of my normal process. But I had an Illustrator inking craving after watching Sherm Cohen ink Sponge Bob (via Ingvard the Terrible's Facebook page). Who needs vectors anyway? Not Sherm Cohen, that's who.

IF: afterwards

It's important to refuel within 30 minutes after a good workout.

 

Santa's chair

It's that time of year again. When Santa starts sitting in recliners and getting excited about clothing sales. You might not see him until the end of the month but don't worry, he's already hard at work.

As you can see, he likes the quality furniture at Cox Furnishings... either that or he had too much of the Nog. I might have to adjust his eyes a little but I thought he looked like he really enjoys that chair.

SCBWI Conference

I went to the "Society of Children's book Writers and Illustrators - Carolinas" conference.
I found the sessions with Art Director Laurent Linn especially interesting. There was a workshop where he gave his first impressions of participant's illustrations as if he were receiving a postcard from us in his office. Some of it confirmed confidence in my own critical observation skills while many things he said were enlightening. It was good to know that he, and I'm sure all art directors, have a specific guidelines for what they are looking for and won't throw out my postcard because they are feeling a little grumpy that day.
My illustration he liked, complimented it's humorous quality and gave some constructive advice... but in the end, thought that my style may be too mass-market for what he is publishing at this time (mass-market vs. literary being another topic discussed at the conference).

By the way, I felt a little ignorant sitting at a table with a bunch of Young Adult fiction writers. But there's no shame in never having read Holes right?

Chronic Doodler

I'm a bit of a chronic doodler. Christy and I were playing  "Scribblish" (with modified rules) at the Stackhouse's, which is pretty much a game where everybody sits around doodling. After a few games we went on to something different... but I couldn't stop drawing... like usual. Some people find it annoying. So do I sometimes. Anyway, Scribblish is one of my favorite games now and posted is a doodle from yesterday when I was supposed to be paying attention.

Relativity/Pymatuning

Christy and I went through Washington D.C. to see her family in Pennsylvania. While In D.C., I felt like Gomer Pyle with a GPS navigator and in western PA I was practically agent 006 (Of course, I'm an excellent driver so no one actually got angry at me in the Capital City).
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We went to the Pymatuning Spillway. They say it's "where the ducks walk on the fish" but the ducks didn't seem too keen on that idea. It was fun to watch the fish flop around to get a breath of water though.

Sermon Notes/Tragedy

In a terribly tragic accident, my sketchbook got caught in the rain. I blame the weather. It was all "Oh, go ahead leave your stuff out here while you work on the pool. I haven't rained in months." and I was all like "Okay, and I'll water the lawn while I'm at it." Evil surreptitious atmospheric conditions. It didn't stop raining for months... it seems like.

Night Swim/Brumby's Green Thumb

Notes: We were watching Lassie in our pool and the dogs got really confused.

Later Brumby stole some of Christy's cucumbers and buried them by the house. They grew nicely in the shade after ours grew old and died in the sun.

IF: transportation

Normally he would drive his KIA. But for some reason, in early fall, the townspeople don't seem to notice when he gets a ride to work on Sven's back.

Champions/Camping

Once again, the Newshounds won the Southpot/Oak Island Adult soccer tournament.

Then I decided that Liam and I should spend the night on that island in the Intracoastal Waterway. It was low tide that night and again in the morning so swimming across was pretty easy.

Liam & Brumby/Fashion

I think Liam really knew what Brumby was doing but didn't want to admit it. Also, Brumby is the one who needs to be fixed. Not Liam.

iPod Drawings

I got an iPod stylus for my birthday so I did a little doodling in the Layers app.

IF: AcroBAT

IF: caged

Giants/Haircut

IF: double

Double neck guitar + double armage = double awesomeness? ...or a weird version of preppy.
It sure is hard to find a photo reference for the old "lead guitar kick". I couldn't even find Jack Black doing it.

At first I started drawing Rock, Paper, Scissors for the Illustration Friday prompt.Then I realized that Rock, Paper, Scissors is "2 out of 3", not "double or nothing"

IF: breakfast

Oklahoma State has quarterbacks for breakfast. Well... probably more often literally than figuratively.

Bananas/Beans

Walk cycle

I started working on a little animation. It involves about 3 seconds of a guy walking so here is the walk cycle I came up with. Joey told me it's more like a lope cycle. I would have to agree.

Anniversary/The Way It Was

Walking in the rain

Panting dog annoys cat

I'm having a little trouble with action script 3.0, so I did some messing around in flash while the server was down. I still can't get the button to go to and play frame 2. Oh well. I'll figure it out later.

Java/Zombies

Notes/Brains

Being Agreeable/Win-Win

Flamesword

Tonight was supposed to be the first soccer game of the season. But it's raining. So I drew this swordman instead.

FYI/5k

Sermon notes/Metholtrexate

Gallery Walk - June 4, 2010

UPDATE: My entry will be at Franklin Square Gallery.
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On Friday I will have an entry in the "Way It Was" art show (an art show where work is based on an image from a book of Southoprt, NC photos called “The Way It Was.”). So those of you from this neck of the woods should think about checking it out. I don't know which gallery mine will be in, but I hear that there are free carriage rides between galleries anyway.

Here is the original photo of a Southport shrimp dock from shortly after hurricane Hazel.



This is a preliminary sketch



Vectorize me Captain



and this is what you'll see hanging on a wall

Questionable tug of war skills/Easter

IF: Fearless

I don't think that being fearless is a good thing.