Month: February 2009
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I Scream!
Tonight’s thing-a-day is brought to you by New Year’s Diet! Nothing screams dessert quite like being on a diet. Actually, I just sketched this out while watching Cinderella with the girls and my lovely bride. I made a blob of pink with my watercolors, and this is where it ended up. And tonight’s EDM challenge…
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Octopus's Garden
Office supplies have always held a certain fascination for me. Briefcases, planners, legal pads, stationery, pens… I love playing in the office supply stores. The other day I was walking through Staples and found this really cool pen that switches from black ink to blue ink to red ink to pencil. It came with an…
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Awaiting the Bath
As I was sitting in my living room chair, brush and ink in hand, trying to decide what to draw, Girl2 comes bounding out buck nekid with a big pink balloon. When I asked her what she was doing, she breathlessly giggled, “Waiting for my bath.†Really, what can you say to that? It makes…
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There's always room for JELL-O!
My Vice President, Finance Manager, Regional Manager, Branch Manager, Operations Manager, and Production Manager invited me out to dinner… I’m stuffed and tired. I thought, “I’ll just do a quick little sketch.â€Â And there was Girl2’s JELL-O. There’s always room for JELL-O. I was Ҡthis close to drawing an ankylosaur. Tonight’s EDM challenge was…
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Brush Entertainment
So, I was spending some time perusing sketching.cc and flipping through the pages of Russ Stutler’s online “how to sketch†book. Believe it or not it had never occurred to me to sketch with a brush and ink. So, tonight I ran to Staples and bought a bottle of ink. Here’s my first ever attempt. …