When I Woke Up This Morning

Moleskine sketches 2012

2012-01-25T17:48:00.001-05:00

2012 Sketch Project kick off

2012-01-04T18:36:00.002-05:00

Kicking it off with the fastest gun in the west.. possibly. Quick Draw McGraw.

Christmas sketches- catch up posting..

2011-12-22T12:50:00.000-05:00

Been a while since I posted the sketches here...

Two more sketches

2011-12-07T18:54:00.001-05:00

Rudolph and his bright red beaker.

A little Doctor Who snow man, after my favorite Doctor.

2 more ..a bit out of order

2011-12-05T19:46:00.001-05:00

A really happy pinecone by request from a friend on facebook. Sketch #4 will be forthcoming but I wanted to post the one for the 5th since today is Krampus Day . Which brings us to our second sketch.

2011-12-02T16:14:00.001-05:00

Day 2 of the 25 Sketch challenge. Here's the Postman from the North Pole from Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

Kickin' off the 2011 25 Sketches of Christmas Challenge

2011-12-01T13:40:00.001-05:00

The first posting. Arnie from Armadillo Junction sweating it out in his bad Christmas sweater. In his climate any kind of sweater is a bad sweater though.

Vector character progress

2011-09-13T23:38:00.002-04:00

Another shot of the slow progress on this character ...

vector cartoon

2011-09-11T16:55:00.001-04:00

the rough sketch I made of the "executive"...

here's the vector lines with the colors blocked in...going to add some detailing and shading... coming soon.

Rough dog with his dogz...

2011-07-06T11:19:00.003-04:00

One of the things I was asked to come up with at work for a Hot Dog Joint's t-shirt... "tough looking hot dog holding two jacked up dogs" ohhhkay... got it. Will post the inks when I get them done.

Lunchtime sketch pardner

2011-06-23T12:36:00.002-04:00

a quickie sketch I did at lunch while watching the Twilight Zone on Netflix... the two are related in no way.

Batman all tooned up

2011-04-28T16:01:00.003-04:00

Sketched him up this afternoon, inked him in, scanned him up, vectored and colored him in Illustrator.. tah dah.

CH-CH-CH-Changes...

2011-04-10T19:22:00.003-04:00

Trying a different template for the blog... gotta fix my header..it's all off center now.. oh well..

work in progress...

Final Zombie vector

2011-03-04T21:58:00.002-05:00

tweaked and played around with it long enough.. time to call it done.

Brainsssss....vectorrrrsss....

2011-03-01T22:34:00.003-05:00

Zombie I am doing up for fun with Illustrator. Still want to add a few details but I figure he is along far enough to post.

Christmas sketches catch up post....

2011-01-04T19:13:00.004-05:00

Got sidetracked

2011-01-02T13:40:00.003-05:00

The remainder of the 25 Sketches of Christmas will be posted the coming week.
Got sidetracked by stuff and the Christmas break.

thanks for waiting.

25 Sketches of Christmas..so far

2010-12-07T19:44:00.003-05:00

Started my 25 Sketches of Christmas again this year with the hopre I will get all 25 done...
here's the first 7 so far....

Doctor Who/House mash-up two

2010-10-23T21:07:00.003-04:00

Another mash-up.. I like this one better.

a DOCTOR mash-up

2010-10-23T20:27:00.003-04:00

Here's a little mash-up I tossed together tonight. Hugh Laurie as the Doctor.

Chilly mornings

2010-10-23T10:19:00.004-04:00

Well fall is upon us here in New England..winter's not far behind... got a taste of cold weather the past few mornings. Even the "boys" cuddled for some warmth. Being the thrifty New Englander that I am I refuse to put the heat on quite yet. My thoughts are the savings we keep up front will help us last warmly through the season. So for now it's an extra sweater and a blanket while watching a movie or hanging around.

Playing around with Muro

2010-09-11T15:40:00.002-04:00

cool little online art program over on Deviant Art..been playing around with it some.

Still here....

2010-08-12T13:54:00.002-04:00

Go read this strip if you are a Star Wars fan...

Do I need a Blog?

2010-07-28T18:30:00.001-04:00

Not really keeping up with it. Considering deleting the blog..any feedback either way?

Hey it's SUMMER!!

2010-07-17T14:41:00.003-04:00

Yup it's summer baby! Been busy with work and what not so really haven't blogged that much. I have been Facebooking regularly. No new strips or art are forthcoming until I find a way to better manage my little free time. Figured I'd update for the few that do stop by... my counter says you do and I thank you for it.
I have been keeping my 2010 Reading List updated as I finish each book. Currently I have three going at once. The newest Kathy Reichs 206 Bones, MacArthur's Escape the story of General MacArthur's withdrawal from the Philippines to Australia at the outset of the Pacific War, and The Unknown Shore by Patrick O'Brian... each is in various stages of progress.
Just trying to keep cool and dry with this New England summer in full swing...work is still busy, both the day job and the side stuff. Although there is a slight let up on the side work lately. So all is well for any of you who wonder about such things. Be well..catch ya next time.

doodling at the meeting

2010-03-24T14:00:00.001-04:00

doodled all this during my three hour meeting last night.. yes I paid attention, my pen tended to wander about though.

Armadillo Junction 2-24

2010-02-23T19:37:00.001-05:00

Armadillo Junction-2/17

2010-02-17T06:32:00.001-05:00

First new strip in nearly 3 years. Click to enlarge.

Bikini Bottom Five -O

2010-01-27T10:14:00.001-05:00

Started as a random Sharpie sketch.. ended up with this.

Sketches

2010-01-13T11:40:00.003-05:00

A man and his faithful companion seems to be the theme of these two sketches. The first is just a cartoon guy and his dog. The Second is Wallace and Gromit..stars of some of the best stop motion animation ever!

25 sketches of Christmas-fell short

2010-01-06T10:59:00.005-05:00

I know I know.. there ain't 25 sketches... fell short with the work and home schedules. I tried though. Better luck next time and all that. Here then are the last few sketches I did the week up to Christmas that I didn't get scanned and posted.

This is my entry in my son's PATCH design contest over on Deviant art. The link to his stuff is over in the sidebar under Jak Rabbit.

25 sketches of Christmas

2009-12-16T12:33:00.003-05:00

This was a request from my Facebook...a Winter Coat Monster.

25 sketches of Christmas

2009-12-11T17:27:00.003-05:00

Some more quick sketches for the season. Average about 15 minutes each.

25 sketches of christmas

2009-12-08T12:07:00.003-05:00

A little behind on my daily output. But here's the latest two. Quick little sketches to keep the hand fluid.

25 sketches of Christmas

2009-12-04T12:16:00.002-05:00

Well looks like someone hasn't read the story....

25 sketches of Christmas

2009-12-03T13:28:00.002-05:00

Munching on the rare plant that allows reindeer flight.

25 sketches of Christmas

2009-12-03T10:54:00.001-05:00

It's not such a bad little tree.

Yule sketches

2009-12-02T12:29:00.002-05:00

A few sketches

2009-11-29T17:39:00.002-05:00

A quickie Patrick sketch from Thanksgiving night.

Barry the bold from the web comic Atland.

A quickie sketch of Captain Marvel on the front of my pay envelope.

A bear and his honey.

Reading List

2009-11-17T06:48:00.002-05:00

I've been keeping a log of the books I've read so far this year. 26 in all with the hope of a few more before New Years. It's a mixed list. Feel free to peruse it and I can recommend each and every title as worth the read.
I used to be a sci-fi/ fantasy only reader but as I aged I became interested a variety of genres. Mystery, Crime fiction, non-fiction, etc. I still love the sci-fi/fantasy realm as well.
My Uncle makes sure I have ample reading by providing books from his level of interest History and the Sea.

Punkin' Skull

2009-10-26T12:09:00.001-04:00

A little sketch of a pumpkin skull for that Hallowe'en feel.

Tombstone comic

2009-10-17T08:40:00.004-04:00

A quick sample of a pet project I'd love to undertake just for fun. A photocomic adaption of the best western ever...Tombstone.
This is a short version of the scene between Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo.

October Monster

2009-10-13T08:52:00.004-04:00

Sketch of the Frankenstein Monster, getting into the hallowe'en mood.

Sketch Swap

2009-09-18T12:11:00.004-04:00

A cool little site I'd forgotten about until I was looking through my Firefox bookmarks.
Check out SketchSwap
Here's a little something I did a screen grab of.. it came out ok for drawing with a mouse.

Agent Elvis character sketch

2009-09-17T12:06:00.004-04:00

Character sketch of an idea I've had percolating in my head for sometime.

Sketches....

2009-09-11T14:07:00.002-04:00

A little sketch of the 'dillos from Armadillo Junction my comic strip that can be found over on ComicSpace..link in the right hand column.

A Dog Guy .. maybe a future partner of my Cat Guy from a couple posts below.

Boom Boom

2009-09-04T15:42:00.004-04:00

A quick sketch inspired by the Warren Zevon song about Boom Boom Mancini.

Some sketches...

2009-09-01T19:11:00.001-04:00

Photoshopping Jak Rabbit

2009-07-11T20:32:00.004-04:00

My son wanted me to add a background and place his two drawings on it. I found an image of the flames of the underworld. Dropped the two scans of his art in two different layers. I added some shadows using layers. Gave the Harley Bat figure a glow to set it off from the background, plus added a slight orange yellow overcast to the drawing . The Jak drawing in the foreground got a Gaussian blur to give the close to the view effect. I added two layers of shadows to his body, blurred them as well. Finally I blurred the bottom edge of the background to create that forced perspective look to match with the Jak drawing.

Cartoon sketches

2009-06-22T10:51:00.003-04:00

Did some sketching whilst sitting at the Youth Group campout this weekend.
Fisrt up a camp leader and her bear. No it didn't really happen but sometimes I just go where my imagination heads.

Then I took a request from my pal Stan. He wanted Wally Gator..so going totally from memory here's what I got.

Then I tried my hand at a version of Patrick and Spongebob.

Cap'n K'Nuckles

2009-06-19T08:30:00.003-04:00

I was sitting watching Chowder last night and sketched up a quick K'Nuckles. The show ended before I got a good look at his boots. HAHA.
EDIT- Yeah Chowder head that's what I am... old K'nuckles is from Flap Jack.. my bad. Watched both and was posting in a hurry.

Honk Kong Phooey- Fanrific

2009-06-18T16:48:00.003-04:00

Henry the mild mannered janitor in his alter ego as Hong Kong Phooey.

Another Kuta sketch

2009-06-18T10:00:00.003-04:00

Just for the heck of it I doodledup another Kuta..the first one was so fun.

Bastion's 7 sketch- Kuta

2009-06-18T08:26:00.003-04:00

Sketch a day.. Kuta (?) from Cheeks' Bastion 7. Got a print out taped to my wall thought I'd give it a go.. quickie while I opened files for work. Enjoy.

Mad Genius- sketch of the day

2009-06-17T08:18:00.002-04:00

Here's a quick sketch of the day. The Mad Genius in his castle laboratory.

Sketches

2009-06-15T21:45:00.005-04:00

A couple more sketches from the sketchbook.
A boy and his dog whose playing is about to be interupted and the good Doctor and his sonic screwdriver.

Some sketchy sketches

2009-06-12T06:57:00.004-04:00

Just a few sketches I've done in the recent past. The first is Jak Rabbit one of my son's characters. Second are some sketches I did watching Chowder. The third is Lucky Bear the dread pirate. HAHA.

Drawing funny pictures

2009-06-01T12:28:00.002-04:00

Here's a quick little caricature I whipped up for a friend. I don't know the guy's name. My buddy sent me over the jpeg to work from. I think he came out ok for a quickie.

Prowler Vector art

2009-05-12T22:31:00.002-04:00

Had yet another car shirt to do up. This time they wanted a Prowler. Here's the wireframe vector version after a few hours of tracing and tweaking.

Here is the final color. It's going to be a simple screenprint on a black shirt so I didn't want to add too many textures to the paint job.

TARDIS console-SketchUP

2009-05-11T17:07:00.004-04:00

A couple posts back I was playing with a TARDIS console design for a Doctor Who strip idea I had. In that post I mentioned how nice it would be to have a program I could draw the console in and then move it around so I'd have reference to draw it from various angles. Well lo and behold a friend of mine pointed me to /SketchUP It's a Google 3D rendering program. Now I've only been playing with a day or so but here's a sample of what I've done thus far. The figures are from the 3D warehouse search feature and only to help with scaling.

All done!

2009-04-26T21:50:00.002-04:00

All done. The race truck is all vectored. Three colors, black red and white on ash grey shirts. Lots of nice halftones in this one.
One of these days I'll actually keep track of how long it takes to bang one of these out.

Race Truck work in progress

2009-04-24T22:24:00.002-04:00

Thought I'd post a work in progress for a t-shirt design. This is a racing truck someone wants on their shirts.

TARDIS console

2009-03-27T09:24:00.004-04:00

Started work on an outline to use for when I draw the TARDIS console for my Doctor Who strip idea. I'll hand draw over the outline but I'd like to have a consistent look so I'm making this "schematic" of it. I'm just doing it in Illustrator. Although I'd love to be able to do it where I could swing it around and see it from various angles as a 3D wire frame.
Anyone know of an affordable program that'd let me do that?

Edit: Second image with additional linework.

Something new is Something OLD

2009-03-25T11:35:00.004-04:00

Took my old Hudson easter strip and ran it through the steps I found over on Johnny Crossbones. Pretty cool tutorial. So I thought I'd post the results. I still think I need to tweak the process for when I finally get back to posting new strips. I'll have to make a photshop Actions for this.
Anyway Enjoy.

The Doctor is in

2009-03-24T19:06:00.003-04:00

My Doctor Who sketch. It's not The Doctor as we know and love him. More of an alternate version for a WHAT IF.. story I have in mind. The sketch is all kinds of wonky. I'll be reworking it and inking it. Maybe I'll even get to a preview strip or two as well..just for fun.
Below is my new Who logo I whipped up during lunchtime the other day.

A sketch from the Moleskine while watching NCIS. It's my take on the Gibbs character. Plus a bad version of Abbie.
I don't do enough warm ups anymore before sketching. Stuff's getting really rough. Heck I don't sketch enough as it is. That's the problem.

Photo Touch up

2009-03-18T19:47:00.004-04:00

Got a photo file sent to me today for a t-shirt design. Unfortunately the poor fellow's head was a wee bit cropped. I went in and touched it up. The background made it easy to clone and adjust. Didn't take much to add to his cranium. It's no photoshop masterpiece... but it works for a posting.

Retro Guy in his Lounge

2009-03-06T00:58:00.006-05:00

The retro guy I did a few posts back now has a place to call his lounge. I started popping together a little place for him to be walking in. Finally got around to the last tweaks tonite. I know it's not much but he calls it home.

some "things" I drew

2009-02-11T15:54:00.005-05:00

Some random "things" that ended up getting together today at work. They are mugging for the camera.. buncha showoffs.

Moleskine sketches

2009-01-17T18:06:00.004-05:00

Finally broke open the Moleskine I've had and sullied it's clean smooth pages with my crude doodlings. Working up some rough sketches for a character for a BBQ rib joint. I have to say it really is the nicest pad I've ever sketched in. I can see why so many others have fallen for using it. I may never go back to others. It's nice , compact and neat.

Santa sketch

2008-12-24T10:51:00.006-05:00

A little Christmas Eve sketch while I'm waiting for the work day to be done. He needs some tweaking and there's supposed to be a door handle in his hand. Plus I want to make him a little more cheerful but cautious looking. If I have the time I'd like to finish him. We'll see.

The Masked Avenger

2008-11-26T11:09:00.007-05:00

I did this 12 page strip for a mini comic I put together way back when. So enjoy parts 1 and 2 in their unedited glory. Click on each page to enlarge and read.

Look what I found!

2008-11-26T10:03:00.002-05:00

I was digging around in my boxes still packed from our big move. Man, almost a year since we moved and my studio and library stuff is still packed up! In the act of looking for something else I came across some other old, old stuff I'd done. PLUS I'll be posting a twelve page mini comic as well But more on that later. PLUS you 'll see my son's character Jak Rabbit and the Thanksgiving themed art he had me scan for his deviant art site.

This was a character I used to draw quite a lot in my younger days. At the time he sort of represented me, so it was natural to use him here sitting at the drawing board. I probably did this back in 1985 or 1986 while I was still in high school. The tones you see are actual Zip-A-Tone. You know the stuff you'd lay over the art and cut trim off a sheet of sticky backed tones and place on the line work to create the gray scale or textures desired. WAY before the age of photoshop. I used this art on my first business card as well. Didn't look too shabby at the reduced size neither.

Another high school piece using Zip-A-Tone over hand inked line work of Cerebus the Aardvark in his High Society days. The similarities betwixt he and the 'Dillos is purely co-incidental. Honest.

Jak Rabbit by Drew.

Tis the Season to be SPOOKY

2008-10-09T09:56:00.006-04:00

A couple Halloween Bash flyer layouts for a client. Since it's the spooky time of year and what's more spooky than the economy woes we are all seeing I'll be posting some Halloween related art this month to take ours minds of the real life horrors.

Vector Oil Truck

2008-10-05T16:51:00.001-04:00

An oil truck vectored for another t-shirt design. Looks a lot better than the clip art truck they currently had on the shirts.

Vector Lamborghini

2008-10-01T09:36:00.001-04:00

Vectored this up for someone to use in a shirt design. Made it for white ink and black ink 1 color imprints.

Another T-shirt Design

2008-09-27T19:34:00.002-04:00

Found this one while looking for something on my work computer. Did this up for a local riding group. They came in with an idea and rough sketch I went from there.
Screenprinted with 5 colors on black sweat shirts.

New Features and my Anniversary too!

2008-09-21T08:38:00.004-04:00

Added a couple cool new features over in the sidebar. Check out the music PlayList! Listen to some tunes while checking out the blog or just listen to some tunes I like. I also added an RSS feed and a "follow this blog" feature as well. I know people are out there and they stop by and even if you don't feel like commenting click the follow the blog and I'll check out your blog or site as well.
Sound good?

And it's our wedding anniversary today. I know I posted this last year but hey it's my blog and I'll post what I want.

Happy 17 years Hunny!

Hand Thing from YouTube

2008-09-17T21:10:00.001-04:00

A little video my son did to post on YouTube.

Retro Guy gets his vector on!

2008-09-15T21:20:00.008-04:00

I wanted to just do something for fun tonite so I took the sketch of my "retro" guy and did a quickie vector of the suave dude.
Below shows the progression.

Here's the sketch and the rough vector outline of the major parts.

Here I wanted to have a neato cool retro color scheme. Since I don't have the best grasp of colors I decided to swipe the color palette from the king of retro Shag. Then I blocked in some color and began to arrange the shapes in front of and behind each other.

Some more colors and some more details. Added the hairy chest. Should have added one gold chain just for fun.

Copy and pasted the entire figure behind the first one and thickened up the outlines to give it a bolder look, more solid. Added the stripes to the pants. If I took more time the stripes wouldn't sit on top of the outlines of the pants.

Added some background elements by warping a circle and copying it a couple times then setting the transparency to multiply.

The finished art. Time: about 2 hrs, with interruptions and all. It was fun to do. Next up..putting him on a background. Maybe.

Invitation Designs

2008-09-14T15:49:00.007-04:00

Got a freelance request for an invitation to some fella's 40th birthday. They listed his likes: golf, irish heritage, beer, etc.
The kicker was it was a fast (overnite) turnaround time. Customer wanted three to choose from I was only able to crank out two. Took a while to gather all the elements. Thanks to the freebies over on BenBlogged I was able to get a nice vectored shamrock and pint glass. The golfer came from another source. Oh and I learned how to make a prety decent plaid pattern to apply to stuff in Illustrator. Got to love those online tutorials!

Turns out they liked the second choice best. If YOU need an invite for anything, let me know!

Sketches

2008-09-11T13:12:00.004-04:00

Some sketches done at work and a watercolor piece by my son this time out.

I like how she came out but the guy needs some tweaking. Plus he was kind of an after thought once I'd started on her.

Trying some retro style cartoons now and here's one of them. Plus I'm into Tiki and had picked up the new TIKI MAGAZINE at the newsstand.

Came home and found my son playing around with watercolors. I really liked this one. I love the expression on the lion's face.

Where have I been??

2008-08-27T11:45:00.003-04:00

And does anyone care? Hope so.
Been busy with home and work..you know that stuff we call everyday life.
Anyway..here are a couple things to update the site with. The first is the shirt design I did for the Get-Together we have at my brother's house with food music and good company. A great time is had by all. Although I'm sure there are more than a few headaches the morning after.

The second is a partial sketch of a Muny type character. I wish I had the know how to make my own vinyl toys..they seem to be all the rage. But I've got a blank Muny to paint so maybe it'll look like this guy.

Work doodles

2008-06-23T15:17:00.004-04:00

Did a few doodles while in between working on stuff at work. Here's the results.

The first is a cat character as yet unnamed. Kind of inspired by the Lacksadaisy cats comic found here. Although her style is far and away better than mine.

This next guy I'm picturing as a stranded space traveler on some remote world. Living by skill and strength and brains. Sort of Lost/ Castaway / Robinson Crusoe on Mars hybrid. Although he may need to get a loincloth somewhere along the line since I'm sure to run out of clever ways to hide his naughty bits.

Ahhh Summer!

2008-06-22T17:38:00.003-04:00

Sometimes I get files at my work and I just shake my head and laugh. It's really the silly little things that can make my day.
Check out a sample of such below.

Here's a sketch of some art I put on a tank panel for a Harley as an experiment waay back in the late 80's. I wood burned the image then airbrushed it with leather dye. Wish I had the panel itself, I may, but haven't seen it for some time and since we just moved a few months ago it could be buried or lost forever. Sigh.

A little sketch of Ol' Frankie taking his daily stroll around the castle. He really is a gentle soul. At least until the townfolk come a runnin' with torches and gardening instruments.

Quick sketches from work

2008-06-12T07:45:00.004-04:00

A few quickie sketches I did at work. Ballpoint pen on copy paper.

This is Superman's Back! I want to work this out a little more and post it over on the Drawingboard.com's Superman thread. He's 70 this month. WOW!

A close up of Batman's utility belt.

I spy with my Spidey eye!

Where You Been?

2008-05-29T16:36:00.002-04:00

Work has picked up for the summer season and home stuff has been keeping me occupied between everyday "stuff" and the freelance gig. For work here's one of the designs I do now annually. It's for the Whaling City Motorcycle show. The customer approved it so I can post it now.
If you'd like a t-shirt design like this drop me an email.. we can chat about it.

I have a hard time pimping myself out. Can you tell?

Draf and Company - Old Pages

2008-05-04T19:23:00.007-04:00

Way back in the day when I used to draw a lot more I came up with a little guy called Draf. I wrote up some stories and scenes from stories. I drew up pages but there was very little continuity between them. Below are a few of those pages. The second and third images are sequential from page to page but the others are pretty much stand alone. I have a few other pages I've scanned and will post those after I cobble them back together in photoshop. I had to scan these is two and three sections from the original pages. I re-lettered the second to last page just for fun. I would have done the others but I didn't want to deal with replicating my hatch-work. Yeah I'm lazy sometimes.

Most of Draf's race all look similar to him. Much like the Bones in Jeff Smith's epic saga or the Smurfs. Those huge tentacle beasts were a favorite of mine to draw for my sci-fi 'toons. They showed up a lot.

Here's an opening splash page with our hero rocket packing through the sky. Then quite suddenly getting blasted.

This shows his plummet after taking the shot to the rocket pack- I guess I'd figured he'd ditched it as he was falling since it's nowhere to be seen.

Apparently Draf has to smuggle a one-eyed tentacle beast out of somewhere past several hard working drones. I can't rightfully say it went off without a hitch.

A little mood setting piece I did after reading a lot of Cerebus comics. I think Draf's shuttle (P.R.O.B.E.) was destroyed and he left to drift through the blackness of space awaiting ..what fate I do not know.

Drew Tuesday

2008-04-15T20:40:00.002-04:00

Some more stuff from the sketchbooks of my son.

Sketch Dump - Old and New

2008-04-06T20:29:00.004-04:00

A bunch of stuff in this posting. I dug through my huge blue tun of old drawings and decided to post a few from way back when I sketched a LOT more than I do now. I always had some kind of project in mind with most of the sketches.
First off is two new doodles from Friday. 1 is Doc Savage in a more cartoony style and the better of the two. The other is him in a more unheroic and realistic style. The second one didn't start out as Doc but sort of went that way as I was doodling. The first shows Doc after kicking some Nazi butt.

Some old sketches:

A kid and his "pet" from some space colony. Best I can remember about it.

Here's a random super team. Got the psychic, the big guy and the lady warrior. There are some notes I cut off giving brief descriptions. The big guy is of course peaceful until provoked and is an inter-dimensional traveller stuck on our world. The floating guy is a paraplegic whose suit amplifies his psychic abilities allowing him to "fly". The female warrior is a companion of the big guy he picked up somewhere along his way.

This is a happy dog. Not much else to say here.

A cowboy I airbrushed on a shirt during my tee shirt airbrushing phase back in the eighties.

The Anti-Monitor and your truly in comic book form for a project that I never completed for an Apa-Zine I was part of.

Remember punk rock? Remember? Well so does this guy. A screaming lead singer of some group who undoubtedly used oodles of hairspray before a performance.

Draf from an ongoing comic idea. I sketched more stuff for this little guy than most any other charatcers. Just never went anywhere with most of the ideas of comic pages. Someday.

Mike.. a high school buddy I drew into a Dungeon and Dragons inspired comic called the Crusaders. I used the guys from my Commercial Art class as the characters. wrote and drew (on notebook paper and copy paper) 3 issues of the Crusaders and 3 solo adventures. Now that was an undertaking.

Some recent stuff....

2008-04-01T19:42:00.002-04:00

A few t-shirt designs I've done recently.

Mora na maidine dhuit.

2008-03-17T09:09:00.004-04:00

A few leprechaun sketches I did the other day. I try to at least doodle throughout the day if time allows.

A poor unfortunate teddy buccaneer who seems to have been on the losing end of several encounters with a number of scalawags.

A random sketch I did while sitting somewhere last summer. Touched up a few details last night and decided to post him here.

Everyone have a great St Patty's.. tip a black and tan back and remember to sign the petition over at http://www.proposition317.com/ to help make St Pats an official holiday.

Agus cuid eile an lae dhuit fein.

Sketches and a matchbook too

2008-03-13T11:09:00.006-04:00

Above is a scan of the vintage matchbooks I uncovered looking through and cleaning out my old house, that was also the home I grew up in. Apperently my Uncle the traveler had brought back a matchbook or two for my Dad from one of his trips to Hong Kong. At least that's what I'm guessing. The matches were black wood with white heads on them.
And I liked the snowman enough to keep him as well.

Here's a little sketch of Karl the Mothman from the Perhapanauts.

A sketch of Big from the Perhapanauts.. this is my redesign.

Some guy battling some overgrown bug.

Don inks Craig

2008-03-04T19:46:00.004-05:00

A little lunchtime fun. Being a big fan of the Perhapanauts and Todd and Craig, I was browsing Craig's Blog and I clipped his Hellboy sketch and laid down some inking with the old light table.
Was fun to just see how I would ink a sketch by someone else since I've never done much of that before. I usually ink my own stuff when I do get around to drawing.

Leap Day stuff

2008-02-29T12:06:00.004-05:00

Some stuff from the kids to fill this leap year extra day.

A comic strip done by my daughter.She called it WHY NOT, I thought it was kind of quirky. Enjoy.

Some heads and doodles from my daughter's sketchbook. I was figuring it was about time I show off her stuff as well.
I like the big headed little sad girl for some reason.

A drawing my son is working on for something is art class. I'll post as it progresses.

Drew Tuesday 11

2008-02-26T16:15:00.004-05:00

A rare colored sketch by my son. Spongebob is his FAV-O-RITE..next to his own characters anyway. He's a goofy Goober!!

Jak Rabbit the star of my son's upcoming book. He wrote a short book with this little hare's first adventure.

An exciting scene from the exploits of Jak Rabbit! Look out guys!!

T-shirt Designs

2008-02-22T10:53:00.004-05:00

Two designs for dart teams I did up recently. I may still need to make changes but thought I'd post 'em since I hadn't posted much this month at all.

A design for a memorial shirt for a young woman who was murdered. She was into hearts, wings and tattoo stuff so I tried to incorporate that into the design. Ended up being a short notice type of thing but I think it came out pretty cool and works for both girls and guys. These are going to be sold at a benefit in memory of her.

Sketches

2008-02-02T10:10:00.001-05:00

Been busy with work and house stuff so there hasn't been too much activity on the blog. We finally got to the point where we put the old house up on the market. Hoping for the best since right now it's an extra drain on the wallet. Over to the left is a little snippet of some Simpson's inspired heads. It's the little things I doodle between waiting for the comp to finish a task or on the phone. The other sketch is one I did around Christmas. It's a little patchwork doll that seems to have been left behind in the workshop, unfinished. Illustration Friday had "stitch" as a subject a few weeks ago but alas I didn't get to post it in time. As usual. HAHA.

Progression of a Spartan

2008-01-23T11:47:00.000-05:00

I had a customer come into work and wanted a design for his plastering business. He had an idea of wnated he wanted. Part of it involved a Spartan bust/statue to be looking like it was cast from plaster. Guess he's a big fan of 300. So after a few changes and what not I finally got what he wanted. Check it out. The progression of a design.

Click on the picture to see a larger version.

The spartan is only part of the overall design but since he ain't paying for free advertising, he ain't getting any. HAHA.

Drawn by Drew

2008-01-02T18:52:00.000-05:00

A colored sketch by my son. He did the background and the character on 2 different papers so I could scan and combine them for him. I added a little glow and a shadow to give it a little something extra.

Fourarms is his favorite alien Ben transforms into. I swiped the background from his other drawing since FourArms was sitting on a blank sheet and looked lonely.

New Years Eve

2007-12-31T17:06:00.000-05:00

Happy New Year! Here's to another year gone and a hopeful year ahead.
Thanks to all who stop by and check in on my little itty bit of the web.