Exquisite Corpse

I'm doing a summer arts program for high school students called ArtWorks at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art through Kendall College of Art and Design and it's pretty great. We had a little bit of extra time today after our guest speaker session and so we played the parlor game "Exquisite Corpse."
If you're not familiar with the game, the premise is that each player draws a section of the body unaware of what the other participants are creating. At the end you unfold the drawing to see the completed form.
I drew the top section and the bottom two thirds were a couple of the students.
Adorable!

Doodle monster

A monster I doodled with my niece and her markers.

Click Bait

So, if you read this blog from time to time, you know I'm a bit nerdy and a few days ago I posted this.

I thought that 15 year old painting would get some nice attention if I posted it to the Star Wars Google+ Community.
What did I get?
Nothing.
One solitary +1 from a community of  over 115,000 users. One lousy click.
And it's not like other posts weren't getting attention. Other posts, lousy ones, were easily getting dozens of clicks.

So I decided I needed to game the system. I needed to come up with something those geeks would click. So why not Darth Maul? Dorks love Darth Maul. Even the ones who hate Phantom Menace still love Darth Maul.
It was sure to get clicks.

It topped out at 83 +1's.

Meanwhile a half naked lady in an Ewok t-shirt got over 250.
I think maybe I should just stop trying to impress dorks.

May the Fourth of July Be With You

A nerdy painting I made... oh geez, fifteen years ago I think? Maybe fourteen years ago? I was digging through some old stuff recently and found it.

Backhand

A redo for an assignment example. The idea is that students get to do the Thanksgiving turkey style hand tracing, but then have to add every detail inside from careful observation.

Of course it helps to have older hands with some details to draw.

Planet of the Shapes

Another redo.

"You make man... like me?" "No. Woman."

A new "How To." Woman, friend for you.