Montana Mather

Just a doodle. I figured I hadn't posted one of those in a while.

This one started out as a cruel caricature of someone. Who? I'll never tell. 

Maybe it's you!

Menlo

I attended the 2014 Inspire Conference this week and they gave us notepads, in which I doodled one of the speakers, Richard Sheridan, head of Menlo Innovations. I also doodled a fish monster, a fat kid and some other weird stuff in it, but I thought I'd lead off with this.

The Zed Word

Another doodle at Art Works. He's next to a face a student drew that creepily looks sort of like my brother circa 1996. I have cropped it out to concentrate on the  zombie which looks a bit less creepy.

Not the MOMA

At the summer arts program I'm doing at UICA in Grand Rapids the mural group put down butcher paper on a bunch of work tables. My group, the graphic design group, was in the mural work space while they were off on site doing their installation so we doodled on their doodle covered tables. I drew a dinosaur. And a zombie, but more on him later.

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!

Radial

We did a radial symmetry project in class today. This was my example.

Marginal Analysis

A doodle from the margins of the agenda to a recent staff meeting.

Rockem Sockem

An example for an art class project. The idea is to draw your hands from observation and have them interact with an imaginative background, first person point of view style in a line drawing.
I drew my dukes up clobbering a robot.

Grunt

A staff meeting doodle.

Forced Labor

Did you know that the etymology of robot is from a Czech word meaning slave? Technically "forced labor." Don't tell this guy though, he's programmed to think he likes doing his work and it would ruin the illusion he's got built into his stupid robot brain.
Incidentally, I drew this in a staff meeting.

Cut and Paste

Arts and crafts with my three year old niece.
I'd draw something, she'd cut it out and paste it. Though most of the time she'd cut the drawings into pieces and then "fix" them with a glue stick. This is the one she didn't cut to bits. It's a turtle.

Frosty Lives!

A pen and ink drawing as an example of radial symmetry for class. It's like a weird, veiny snowflake! Maybe that's what Frosty is made of and why he can live and breath...

M is for Monster

A collaboration with my three year old niece. She painted the blue green part, I doodled the monster parts. Adorable.

Grim Grinning Ghosts

Steps two and three in the Jack O' Lantern that alas, was not meant to be carved (my pumpkin was too short and squat for it).
The first is isolating the highlights from my initial sketch, the second is inverting them as the carved out negative areas.
Maybe next year.

Grim Grinning Ghost

This was the first step in a Jack O' Lantern design I ultimately didn't do because my pumpkin was too short and squat.

Count Day! Ah Ah!

Today is Count Day at school!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM

Mess with the bull, get the horns

Another drawing for students to digitally color. It's a Minotaur wailing on some poor sap.

The Wiz

Another image for the kids to color on the computer.But in this case I colored it.
They're all fantasy type characters so they can do outlandish color schemes and have it still fit.
Also because I'm a bit nerdy and that's what I think is fun to draw.

"You know how I know fairies exist? I'm a fairy." - a five year old girl

I'm in the process of updating some old assignments that used Aviary, which is sadly going in a different direction from giving away cool web based media editing tools for free, to GIMP, which is still free but not web based.
Here's one picture from five that I drew that the students may choose to color on the computer.

Dismissed as Coincidence

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mermaids.html
The U.S. Government has now officially denied the existence of mermaids. I'm surprised they even had to waste time making a statement on something so universally accepted as bunk that Time-Life didn't even waste a Mysteries of the Unknown edition on it.
Anyways, I drew a mermaid picture today to use later as a coloring project for Digital Art.
Expect a color version soon.