where have I been ?

Actually, not so much my fault as much as that Kim was taking a class online and claimed that her need of the computer was greater than mine. So the question is, does anyone see any of this stuff? probably not, and thats why she got the computer.

illustration friday "fortune"

while one mans fortune does not have to be another mans folly, it certainly tends to work out that way quite a bit.

My Hero's are falling

Johny Hart died last weekend. in a profile I read of his years ago he (I paraphrase here because I can) said that his B.C. comic was much harder to draw than other strips because he used minimal background. if you draw every leaf on a tree, no one notices if they aren't all perfect, if all you have is a horizon line, it better be in the right place. I instantly started to teach myself(Unsucessfuly) to be a minimalist.
Last night kurt vonnegut died. I read slaughterhouse 5 because john lithgow called it perverse and obscene in "Footloose" (forgive me) I read everything else because I found something that spoke to my cynical hopefulness. and hoplessness. I also learned that even the most secondary background character in every story has a life, a story, loves, fears, dreams and doubts.
these things come in threes. I don't know who is next, but this has been a sad week for me.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Easter drawings

illustration friday "green"

I feel that I should say something about the way I spelled "Benjamin". but too tell the truth, I'm too ashamed.

a big ugly "sketch dump"

been a while so this is a relieving of a backlog buildup of sketches.

illustration friday "snap"

got injust under the wire.

20 min. from picture

illustration friday "I spy"

Not terribly original, I know, but I'm pressed for time this week. Spring cleaning, dont'cha know.

done 3/22

Well...

a doodle that got away from me!

So there I was at the oldest boys piano practice doodling in my doodle book and before I knew it, this fairly finished sketch was sitting in front of me. Probably took the better part of half an hour or more.

a few things

illustration friday "total"

the top image, she's a total package i.e. all that and a bag of chips. the bottom image I was too lazy to post for six and a half days.

sketches thru 03-02-07

illustration friday "hide"

the image came to me after my son explained what he wanted to do for his Illustration friday image.

ilustration friday "gravity"

my dad used to have a little plastic figure that looked like this in the wieght room, or "home gym", as they are currently referred to.

new pen nib

just playing with a new nib.

scribble game, the

I recently found this stash of scribble game sketches. the object, someone, or you, closes their eyes and scribbles on a piece of paper then you take said scribble and find a working image using as much ofn the original scribble as possible.

ilustration friday "Red"

Of course after I started going for that communist russia look, I realized I couldn't remember wich way the hammer and scycle went. And was there a star or was that a different flag. At times like this my memory shames me. (Of course I remember what I was wearing when I heard that Elvis died.)

valentines day

reviving two characters I created in high school. Needless to say, they have aged as well as I have.
(Heavy sarcasm)
The caption would read: Alice, this is not how decent people celebrate valentines day.