Be Handsome. Be Attractive. Don't Be Unattractive.

One thing I revert to absently drawing consistently, say in the margins of notes during meetings or whatever, is some variation on craggy, goony, or odd looking portraits of made up faces. Or, in this case, one rakishly handsome looking devil. Look out ladies, he's looking for love.

Philip Glass

This is another drawing I made as an example for class. It's an empty glass.

An optimist might say it's a full glass I suppose, but brother, they're wrong.

Mystery Science Theater Five Thousand

This is a map I made a few years back for K College's annual 5K race. I understand that K stands for one thousand, but one thousand what? Miles? If so this thing isn't remotely to scale.

Starblazing

A kid in class who likes to draw anime and manga style stuff was asking me about doing female faces and hair. I asked him why Naruto wears safety cone orange capri sweat pants and has kitty whiskers on his face.

Then I drew this for him as he watched to illustrate a few things about facial proportions. You'll note the lack of any floating teardrops or asterisks at her forehead.

Where did that stupid stuff come from anyway? I know that the style traces its roots back to Osamu Tezuka, who basically just ripped off Carl Barks and added robots, but how do you go from a Carl Barks rip off with robots to the floaty tear drop nonsense?

About now that student would start correcting me and say that anime and manga are different, there are multiple styles, and nobody in Japan ripped off Carl Barks and who is Carl Barks anyway. Whatever.

Anyway, I kind of liked the drawing so later on I added some stuff to it in Photoshop.

Johnny Appleface

Why did I draw a fruit headed gangster named Johnny Appleface? Do I have to spell it out for you?

(Okay, so I actually don't know)

You're The Man Now, Dog

This is a vector illustration I made of a dog as an example for my digital arts class.

It's a wild dog.

"Wild Dog" by the way also happens to be the name my fanfic that crosses over the John Travolta of "Wild Hogs" with the John Travolta of "Old Dogs." I was going to go with "Old Hog," but that just seemed to demean the fine work of Mr. Travolta.

Live every week like it's Shark Week

Jabberjaw here doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.