Doggy remedies bout of boredom. News at 11.

I did this in the corner of my notepad during a 2 1/2 hour meeting this morning. My presence went largely unnoticed. When I find myself with a bit of time I can spend it messing with the line weight of my doodles. I like drawing cute dogs. I don't need to. I really need to work on my girly sketches. Must draw girls.

"Face the master! Your faith against, his faith!"

Lately while pushing pixels at the 9 to 5 I've been watching the 1979 miniseries Salem's Lot on my iPod. The vampire in that movie severely scarred me as a kid when i saw it the first time around. I can conclusively say that it made me loathe dead things rising up from the dead. I still can't go to funerals without being a minimum of 50 yards and without a direct line of sight of the body. Seriously dude. It freaks me out. Not that funerals are a normal thing for me.

Max Shreck in the 1922 vampire flick, Nosferatu, whom this vampire's look was based on, was really the freakiest vampire ever.

Look at him! Damn that's f'd up!

Guys that drink dark beer have thick necks and are named "Gunther"

yeah, i did it again. another head... okay, okay. i'll do something else. jeez.

but these are really FUN.

"Doing" girls well.

So even though I say I'm drawing more often, I think I'm limiting myself to a bunch of "heads". It's my comfort zone I suppose. Heads are good, but the point is to try new things, like this sketchblog.

So Im warning you now, there will be a lot of heads at first. I've got a ton of them waiting to be scanned.

You know what I'd like to do more is girls. I think doing girls well has been a goal of mine for quite a while. So if/when I do post some girly sketches, advice is encouraged and greatly appreciated.

HA. That came out awesome, but you know what I mean.

I meant "draw".

War and artists. I smell a graphic novel.

I got this image from a photograph in Newsweek. There was more detail in the empty space on the left, but what struck me was the soldier's look of indifference to the scene. Just another day.

This is a quick little cartoon of Charles Schneider (actor in Black Dahlia, Beetlejuice, Ghost World) and Daniel Clowes (awesome cartoonist of Ghost World and Eightball).

Ahhhh, this is the life.

I can't tell you how much I enjoy drawing shrivled-up old men. Seriously though, I'd like to do the freemason thing. Secret handshakes, cloaks, goat heads, skulls, passwords and the hats - can't forget about the big red hats. I like me a fez.

Quotes of the Week

So on the site that I work on we get customer reviews that are often times not appropriate enough to slip by the moderators. A bunch of us love to read them before they get trashed, so I came up with poster idea that would display a new one every week up on our community bulletin board. In the process of sketching out my idea, I made this neato crotchety old shriner dude. He's lived an easy, care-free life. Easy enough to continue smoking. Better to burn out than to fade away, I suppose.

Here's the final product by the way. I print out and pin the quote on the bubble. Everyone on the floor loves it, I think.