Pretty Pretty Princess

We were doodling in their notebooks and my nieces wanted me to draw them as princesses using their favorite colors. I think they're pretty good likenesses considering they're in crayon and I had a four year old and a two year old hanging on me and moving the paper so they could see. 

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Another doodle from standardized testing.

Test Taking

We did three days of standardized testing. I wound up doodling a lot, while others just fell asleep.

Phair Play

Another series of notebook doodles from class. The one at the top wound up looking a little like Liz Phair I think. Or maybe Tom Petty. Or maybe Bruce Spence. Or maybe Bruce Spence playing Tom Petty doing a cover of a Liz Phair song. 

As for the others, I don't know...maybe bald Pee Wee Herman at the bottom?

Vested or Vexed?

Another notebook doodle. Can't tell if drawing looks intrigued...or confused.

Youth in Asia

Another doodle from my notebook made during an eight hour Saturday grad class.

A Study in Demographics

I'm taking a couple grad classes and an eight hour Saturday class session means lots of lecture time. And of course lecture time means doodling.
A doodle from my notebook.

Evil Eye

An impromptu sketch to demonstrate portraiture.
It turned out kind of creepy actually, didn't it?

Yeah, but what if I want them to be bigger?

A new kid in class asked me for some advice getting proportions right in drawing portraits because he wanted to do a drawing of this girl, who apparently was "the one that got away" that he was still pining for which I thought was kind of sweet so I drew it for him to demonstrate.
Of course I also had another exchange with him where he wanted to know about getting body proportions right, and so I drew the classic Vitruvian Man example. He then asked me how it would be different if it were a woman, and so I demonstrated and basically it devolved into him wanting me to teach him how to draw boobs. So I'm not sure how sweetly romantic his final drawing wound up being.

Human Resources Puffinstuff

I kind of think this little dude looks a little like a thin, demented H.R. Puffinstuff.

(I don't know what the "M" stands for, I just drew an M)

Keep your ion the ball

Another meeting, another pointless doodle.

Johnny Sixkiller

I watched "Thunderheart" on TV the other night and wanted to draw an American Indian looking guy. Is there a way to depict members of a particular race in cartoon without resorting to racist caricature? Hopefully.

Thankfully there aren't that many Indians left so the chances of any of them seeing this and being offended are probably pretty slim. Although come to think of it, it's possible being reminded there aren't very many of them left and saying "thankfully" before the expressing the idea might prove offensive too.

At any rate if you're Indian and don't like this blog entry I'm sorry. I just saw "Thunderheart" and wanted to draw.

Mister Easter

The Easter Bunny from that old notepad. He's decided to mix patterns and stripes, which is kind of tacky

Shamrock Shakedown

I found an old notepad that I kept notes and doodled in. I never stay that organized for that long though and based on the drawings I'd say I felt like getting my stuff together for a couple of weeks in March. Which means I drew this rather angry looking Leprechaun and an Easter Bunny.

Mad Balls Evolution

Remember Mad Balls? Those foam Nerf-like balls with grody looking faces? What a dumb toy. What an even worse Saturday morning cartoon show.

Magic Monkey's Paw

Ironically, owning a magic monkey's paw would be my magic monkey's paw wish.

Rex the Lynx

Rex's owner is a German guy who thought it would be a delightful play on words and translation to name a lynx Rex, a play on "rechts" and "links," which in German is right and left. Also he doesn't know that Rex is a dog's name and that a lynx is a wild animal, but still, what fun!

Africula

Why Africula? Well, for one, Blackula is already taken and two, it's more politically correct than Blackula, isn't it? At least more politically correct than Count Chocula. How in the twenty first century they're still able to get away with such a politically incorrect name for that cereal I just don't know.

Tyrannical Tot

I was going to give this evil looking baby something maniacal to say as he wrung his hands and plotted against those he's been birthed to replace as they age and die off, but then I thought his horrid expression spoke for itself. Plus I couldn't think of anything witty for him at the time.

Hare's Hubris

This drawing originally had a Tortoise too, but I didn't like the way he turned out, so Hare, I guess you win after all.