A comic strip about a fly fishing ghost.

Here is a strip about fly fishing. A friend and I were talking about all the people who we knew and fished with that are gone now. As well as all the people who fished this area before us. This is kind of about that. I admit it's not funny, but hopefully I am conveying a thought here.

From the enchanted forest of Tillamook, Oregon. A dragon cow.

I have been watching NBC's television show Grimm. A show that is inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales that takes place in and around Portland, Oregon. There are updated characters from the old fairy tales plus creatures from other sources too.
I haven't seen any werewolves or monsters around here on the west end of town, but if there were, maybe a dragon crossed with a cow would be nice. Or a dracow as a friend of mine called it.

Batman and Catwoman fan art sketches.

On a  forum of artists and sketchers that I belong to they have been practicing superhero fan art. These are my two sketches. They were done with pencil. The Catwoman was inked. Both were colored with my computer.
They are both just practices and truly fan appreciation coupled with my weird sense of humor.

A comic strip from a coffee shop in Portland, Oregon

During this last Christmas vacation my youngest son, J.D. came home for a visit. During his brief visit he took me to a couple of the better Portland area coffee shops, where they roast their own beans and make great coffee.

The idea for this cartoon came during that time. I have been watching the TV show Grimm which puts a Portland slant on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tails. I haven't seen any werewolves or the like around here, but I thought it would be fun to make a spooky comic of my own anyway.

It's a retelling of a very old joke.

A pencil caricature of Frida Kahlo.

Hello to anyone who happens by!
This post is partly to move on from the Holidays to the new year and partly to mention Frida Kahlo. I have been looking online at her work and she is an artist whose work I find most interesting. I recommend taking time to see her work.
Here is a caricature of her that I did after reading about her and perusing her art online.

Christmas sketches,elf girls, and a couple of others. Pencil sketches colored with computer.

Well, we have been pretty crazy with the coming of the Holidays this year! I did manage to do these little pencil sketches and color them with my computer.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

Last, a very quick one from this Christmas eve morning. My wife, Aunt Bee, has everyone hopping around here!

My cat Sylar as the joker card and a pencil cartoon of me and the cats.

Not too much to say about these. Just a couple of cartoons done recently.

A cartoon about the Twilight movies.

Aunt Bee loves the Twilight movies. Because of this I have seen my share of them. So the other day she was mentioning the new one being out.  I was trying to figure out a way not to go.
Not that I don't enjoy my time with Aunt Bee and not that I won't go, but I am hoping she finds a girlfriend to go with.

 This was a pencil drawing inked and colored it with Photoshop, trying to give it a retro cartoon feel.
I added the word swoon because I think swoon is a funny word.

Bootsy the cat as the King of Hearts playing card.

A cartoon of my son's cat as a King of Hearts playing card.
Done with pencil, then inked and colored with the computer.

Pencil Sketches to change the subject.

OK, so I really didn't know how to title this, but I wanted to leave the Halloween theme from the past couple of posts.
I didn't really have too much I wanted to show, but these quick pencil sketches were fun to do, so I thought lI would share them.


I got the idea for the rosy cheeks on the first one from a cartoon character my kids used to watch, Pickachu. A bit of color seems to make some sketches a bit more interesting.

More ladies.

Another lady.

And last, this is just an idea. Kind of one of my purposes for sketching. I can always come back to this to explore later. Laughing cats.