Prison Rat

This morning as I was waking up I could hear this song by Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings". While I was watching cartoons of prison rats.

When I finish my little sketch I looked for a bible verse to go with it and found this quote.

1956 Volkswagen Bus Cartoon

This was my project this week. I wanted to learn more about Photoshop and to use my Wacom Bamboo Pad for more than just coloring. 

It started out as a loose pencil sketch.

Inked with my computer.

Colored

After coloring my image I copied it and pasted it to a back round that I made. For the back round I used two images that I got from Morguefile, a free to use image site.

I just pasted the two images on top of each other and adjusted the opacity of both until I got what I wanted. Then added my text.

Fishing with a friend

The style of the cartoon person is just a bit different than I usually do. The eyes are bigger and the face is rounder. 

This was a fun quick drawing, colored with Photoshop.

I enjoy drawing all different body types. :)

Going to Eugene in an alternate universe

   I drew this last night and colored it today. Last week Bee and I visited my oldest son, Chumley, who is going to the University of Oregon in Eugene.
   I drive as I am able and drove some last week. We had fun. I watched the Niners beat the Falcons. Bee and Chumley went grocery shopping. Later we went to a Hamburger place that is a gluten free friendly Called Dickey Jo's.

My 2012 Christmas card of sorts. Skeleton Santa

Hello to all and Merry Christmas!

I have not been drawing much as of late, but I did manage to do this one. 

Originally done in pencil, then inked and colored with Photoshop Elements. 

Cut out cards.

Aunt Bee found some cards at a garage sale for a quarter and brought  them for me. I had them for a while before I got the idea for these. 

I thought it would be better to take photos rather than scanning for clarity. All be it, my photography skills aren't that great. 

The first one is ink

Gas Mask/ Peace Cat

This one is ink and colored pencil. The paper on these cards is very lightweight, probably made for printing, so pressure from coloring with the pencils caused the paper to buckle a bit.

Santa Hat/ Alien Santa

My Halloween Post for 2012. Frankenstein and his lady.

Hi, all. I did these yesterday while watching football on a rainy Sunday here in Oregon. They are just pencil, colored in Photoshop as I usually do with my cartoons.
In retrospect I should have said "There is a very special ghoul." on the girlfriend's dfrawing.

I posted this one before, maybe every year I have had my blog. Still my favorite Halloween video.

A sketch of a brown trout on Bee's Bogus Recycled Paper

Here are two sketches. The first one of a brown trout is done on Bee's Bogus Recycled Paper with ink and white pastel.

This next one hopefully is not too adult for this blog. It is a twenty five minute sketch from a life drawing session I went to. I finally felt like going and had a good time. The drawing was larger than the scanner, so I had a bit of trouble getting the image.
For any artist or sketcher who wants to go to a life drawing session and is hesitant, I recommend going if you can find a respectable one to go to. Check out colleges and art studios in your area.

Skull in a leopard skin pill box hat and a comic strip about Bee writing Oprah

This sketch was done with a a Pilot Precise V7 pen and some really crappy, all but dried out markers that were lying around the house here. 

I have been listening to Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" album some as of late. There is a song on the album called "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat". This was just me riffing on that song a bit. 

Also, here is a very quickly done little comic strip based on a conversation I had with Bee this week. Bee loves okra, I, on the other hand, do not. (!!!!!) In my imagination Oprah doesn't either.

BTW, okra is a vegetable here in the States.

Still here, a pencil cartoon colored in Photoshop.

Hello! Just a quick one, a card of sorts to say I am still around. There has been a lot of stuff going on around me lately, some good, some bad. So, as a result I haven't been able to draw, doodle, sketch or paint. Hopefully things will settle down a bit.