Baldy McBalderson

This is another little doodle I made in the margins of the newspaper. It's not based on anyone, which is probably a good thing since I think if this drawing were based on me I would be upset at how unflattering it is.

Inch High Private Eye

Another doodle in the margins of the newspaper. I thought it looked pretty good for only being about an inch wide drawing (or about 25 millimeters for the metrically inclined).

Brought to you by the letter C

Do they call him Biscuit Monster in the U.K.?

Mom is asking for trouble

I doodled this in the margins of the newspaper while working on the NYT Sunday Crossword Puzzle. Does anyone know what a six letter word for a Mayan symbol of strength might be?

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?

This is a tempera painting of Abraham Lincoln I made a while ago based off of a marble bust I saw at Ford's Theater in D.C.

I really liked how it was the younger, vibrant rail splitter Abe.

Be cool

In response to the heat wave we've been experiencing, here's a picture of a polar bear.

Eggscuses

This is an egg based tempera painting I made at a workshop on the Wyeth family where we all tried out one of Andrew Wyeth's mediums of choice. The process kind of reminded me of dying Easter eggs mixed with making french toast, but you know, painting.

It might look like this painting kind of sucks, but it was made on a tiny 3" x 4" piece of paper and painted with a medium that dries out within seconds and I only had the three primary colors to work with plus it was my first time using it, which is all really just a bunch of excuses for why it isn't very good.

On the plus side though, it does kind of look like the German mechanic guy who gets splattered by the flying wing in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Boys vs Girls

For many people in today's society, gender is a very malleable concept. There remains I think, however, some cases in which the differences are immutably and unarguably distinguishable.

Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow

Another drawing of Catlady, err, woman. It's kind of like how other people share pictures and videos of their cats, except I drew her and she's not obnoxiously adorable.

This was going to be part of the other drawing, but the old cat lady in this version didn't turn out how I wanted it to, so I cropped it into nerdy a fanboy drawing. With a kind of awkward pose.

But I'm Allergic to Synonyms!

People who are unfamiliar with language may wonder why we have synonyms. After all, if the words essentially mean the same thing, then isn't it redundant to have more than one? Like say, lady and woman?

Brushes with Death

This is a painting I made on my iPod using a program called Brushes. I was just fooling around to try it out and wound up painting a skull.

How morbid!

Christmouse in July

Here's an older picture from a couple years and seven months ago. I already posted the pencil drawing, and here's the finished product.
Happy Christmouse in July!

How do you like them apples (again)

Here's another example from class, though this time from the more traditional intro to art class. It's a value drawing of apples (again) on gray paper.
Man, do high school students hate drawing apples...

They agreed to draw them though when I let them eat them when they were done, which surprised me because I don't think I would do work in exchange for fruit.

Marxist Propaganda

Here's another example I made for the digital arts class. The idea was to use the Andy Warhol model of the celebrity portrait print along with vector drawing to explore value, hue and saturation of color.
It's Groucho Marx.

He and I share the same birthday!

Color Puff

Here's another example for class using Aviary. It took that dragon drawing I had already made and put it in multiply mode to color it, which is a pretty neat trick if you ask me.

Vector Lobster

I haven't posted in a while, pretty much because instead of having a job where I can sit and doodle while showing a movie or something I now actually get to teach pretty much all the time. But it's summer and I've got a bunch of examples I've been sitting on so why not put them out there.

This first one is from the Digital Arts class I started in the Spring. We used the free online programs of aviary.com and this image used their vector program called Raven. It's a pretty nice program and if you're intimidated by more robust vector programs like Adobe Illustrator I'd say that it's pretty user friendly.
The picture is a lobster. I think it turned out all right.