A Caricature of Smokey Robinson: Fan Art

So, I have been in a drawing slump lately. I haven't had any clear visions of what I should draw. And then the other day I was listening to music. I heard "Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. How inspirational. The words and music are so cleaver.
I remember listening to this song when it came out, I was I think 16 or so. I was thinking who is this Pagliacci???

Not for Sale

A couple of caricatures

Here's one of my wife Aunt Bee. It's funny, because I see her as a princess. :)

The second one is a caricature of one of my wife's co workers. She called from work and asked if I could do one of him driving a Mercedes convertible. I said ok, when do you want it done. She said tomorrow. Then she sent a picture from her phone. So it's a little rough, but they liked it where she works.

A goofy cartoon.

Just a stupid cartoon from the last week. Aunt Bee, my wife, wanted me to make a card for my son Joe's birthday.

My German Shepard, Forte. A sketch.

Done on Bogus Recycled Paper with a Uniball gel pen, Tombow brush pen and Witeout.

Garage Sale Sketches

So, this weekend we had a garage sale. My wife did the lions share of the work, being the lioness she is. I did what I could, but wound up setting and taking the money and doodling some.
People, toys, and such...... I colorized these a bit, because the scanner washer pencil out so badly.

Quick Golden Retriever Sketch

My golden retriever Blancett. Done on a paper bag with the Uniball gel pen and some Witeout for highlights. I just posted it to see how it looks on the computer.

A couple of new sketches: Self Portrait and Cutthroat Trout

The first one is a cartoon of myself. It was done with a Uniball gel pen. I love the way the ink flows onto the paper with these pens.
The second one, the Cutthroat Trout cartoon, was done with the gel pen also. Then it was colored with the computer using my Bamboo pad.

A self Portrait

An ink cartoon colored digitally

Cartoon: The She Creature of the Darkest Lagoon, How I did this.

I thought for this cartoon I would show and tell how the finished version was made. Maybe this would be of some interest. I just figure out a little bit at a time, but I am glad to share what I know with anyone that is interested.

First there was the sketch which was inked and cleaned up. Next I scanned it and worked on it with my digital pad. I don't have a fancy pad, but the one I have is pretty good. It is a 6"x9" Wacom Bamboo Pad. I am very happy with it.

With the digital pad, first I cleaned up the drawing some more using Gimp, which is a free program. Then I simply colored the drawing using Corel Painter Essentials 3 which came with my Bamboo pad.

That simple.

Just another word about Gimp. It is a great program that does a lot. For a long time this was the only image manipulation program I had. I used it mostly for resizing, rotating, cropping, colorizing and cleaning up my drawings. Oh, yeah and did I mention that it is free?

This is the sketch that was inked scanned and then cleaned up with the computer

This is the final product, but I could change something about it if I wanted to.

A doodle colored with my Wacom Bamboo Pad

I doodled this drawing with a gel pen and decided I liked it. So I scanned it and colored it with my Wacom Bamboo digital pad.
It must have got in my head because Easter is approaching.



Also, I am listening to Laura Veirs, who it turns out lives here in Portland now.





Here is a little political cartoon. I was thinking if I made a cartoon world what kind of animals would be politicians. :)

A cartoon about snails

Last summer I went to visit my brother in California. While I was there I noticed the snails. I had completely forgotten about the snails.