The flash

From another thread on the DRAWING BOARD. This one is all pics of girls flashing. This of course isn't so much flashing as it is a complete disrobing. Look for the character in the pool to pop up in something else later...

The illusive cover song

Sometimes it's just plain fun to take someone else's ride for a spin. Drawing other people's characters is kind of like a decent cover song, sure it's a fun take, but it's never as good as the original.

There's a cool thread over on THE DRAWING BOARD (link in the links on the right) where people are doing fan art of fellow members of the drawing board. It started with the LOVELY CADAVER drawing I did for Jon McNally, and other people have posted some fantastic stuff. I have a couple more contributions.

The first for Elliot Cowan, a staggering talent, who does some of the funniest drawings around.

The second, Shane Glines' Flint Michigan, one of my favorite characters of his. I'd be surprised if you haven't heard of Shane. Everybody knows that guy's stuff. If you're not a member of cartoonretro.com, your SHOULD be.

Boobs

My buddy Viktor was telling me that he hasn't had the opportunity to draw boobs lately so, I did this drawing for him, just to let him know that boobs are thinking of him.

I think this is the biggest I have ever drawn them. I rarely if ever draw large ones.

More Skulls

Man, have I been neglecting the blog. Sorry blog...

I have been focusing on freelance and a personal project. That means the blog gets ignored. I will attempt to post more now that things are slowing down.

This is ink and acrylics used like watercolour.

Lovely Cadaver

My buddy Jon McNally sent me a SWEET bookmark with an awesome character of his on the front of it. It inspired me to do some fan art of the character. This is what you see here, and what I gave to Jon as a thank you.

Speaking of Jon, he has a blog. The guy is a great artist and a KILLER designer. Great style, and you should check out his stuff...

HERE

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Sometimes I just do stupid drawings for my buddies. This is one of those times.

Giving thanks

When I was a kid, I HATED having to write thank you notes. It wasn't that I wasn't grateful for my Christmas gifts, I just thought they were BORING(the letter writing.) I didn't understand it at the time, but the format of them was rather dull.

Dear (Aunt, Uncle, Grandparent etc.)
Thank you for the (gift/cheque/spoons of the world collection.) I put the money in the bank/put the kids cookbook on my bookshelf blah blah blah. This weekend I played basketball, we lost.

Love,
John

I soon got more creative with my notes adding drawings, or telling complete and utter fabrications.

Thanks for the spatula. You'd think an 8 year old would have no use for one, but I killed a grizzly bear with it, saving the entire family, and our camp.

Today, the tradition stays alive. Letter writing is kind of a dying art. E-mail & text messaging are faster, more immediate. My mom's voice is still in the back of my head though, telling me to write my thank you notes so, I still do.

I'm still severely lacking in the job arena and this year, I spent WAY too much time on my notes. This is one of them. Vegas and the Hawaiian shirt are true (supposedly the hotel we stayed in had the biggest in the world.)

Also note: This is a terribly inaccurate depiction of my lovely wife. She is actually VERY nice, and amazingly, has never called me an idiot. This whole thing was complete stream of consciousness which can be fun to do from time to time.

Apologies to JOHN CAMPBELL as I sort of lifting his style for this little story. Check out his HILARIOUS comics in my links.

Three cheers for more rejects!

why my friends HATE me

Happy Birthday Dan.

Fun with the various shape tools in Photoshop.

Merry Ho Ho 2007

Merry Christmas Blog Readers!!!

RAGNAROCK

I ended up doing two paintings for the latest Maverix Studios auction this time. To learn more about the auction, check out the MAVERIX link on the right.

The first painting is called RagnaROCK. Hopefully I can put my obsession with drawing vikings to rest now that this painting has gotten it out of my system? This is 8"X10" acrylic on illustration board

The painting below is my second for the auction, and is quite obviously titled, "She Dreams of Pop Stardom." When I set out to do the two paintings, I had no intention of making them thematically linked by music, but it happened. When I was sketching out the viking, he was holding an actual axe and then I thought what if he's holding an AXE? Next thing I knew, I was drawing a guitar. Then I moved onto the girl, and the title popped into my head. I also decided I wanted to do something that incorporated lettering. This one is 5"X7" Acrylic and Gouache on watercolour paper. The lettering is gouache, everything else is Acrylic.

Not up to snuff

What better things to post on your blog than REJECTS! Why post your best work when you can post stuff that just isn't that great! Yes! That's what everyone wants to see.

Maverix Studios has another charity auction coming up and I was lucky enough to be asked to do some work for it. I ended up doing a couple of paintings that I'll post a little closer to the auction date.

This painting above is a self rejected piece. Something weird happened with the pigment in the watercolour I used on her jacket and it kinda ruined the painting. Looking at this again, I'm not that thrilled with the drawing either, so I guess all was the best.

Random randomness

Page of doodles. Um, that girl's face in the upper right, just below the guy with the weird neck, I ripped that off of a Miss Arnette drawing from her blog. I think there was something to the arrangement of her features that I wanted to remember so, I did a quick study. Check out her blog in my links, she's REALLY good.

Searching...

These are a couple of pages of sketches where I was trying to find the designs of the characters in the Capt. Courage comic (which can be seen a couple of posts below this.) You'll also notice my first attempt at the FACA Arena Girl that I self rejected due to general crappiness and sucky drawing.

Happy Halloween

I designed a t-shirt for KUPD'S MONSTER MOSH their big Halloween party they're having tonight.

REJECTION

Rejection is something I think most artists need to get used to. It happens a lot in this business. Being currently unemployed, I have been dealing with a fair bit lately as I search for a more full-time employment situation than my current sparse freelance work. Maybe it's good though, it allows us to reassess our goals and maybe provides that bit of sour that the sweet needs to be properly enjoyed. That said, it still sucks.

As I try to figure out my next move, I have been working on a few side projects. One was submissions for someone I came in contact with a few months ago. This, as the title of this post says was REJECTED. No worries though, now I can share it with the 7 people that read this blog... okay 10.

There was a question in the comments so to clarify, I wrote, drew, and coloured this.

AVATAR

Haven't worked on much stuff that I can show at this time so, here's my new avatar.

FACA Ring Girl

Head on over to Fist-a-cuffs (link on the right) and check out everyone's sweet ring girls! Here's my contribution. Everyone was giving their girls fanciful names so, mine is named Jane Smith.

Below is the reject. Not sure how I let this get all the way to ink before I realised how bad it is. I guess I thought I could fix it. Alas, I could not. My scanner cut off her feet, they were drawn. It's a reject so, no re-scan.

Have a good weekend blog readers!

Babies galore

So, a lot of friends have had babies lately. These are a couple of drawings I did for one of those friends...

Happy birthday old man

I figured that since I worked with him for so long, that I should do something nice for Don's big 70th birthday. This is the card I sent him.

Happy birthday sir.