Sitting for a portrait is dull

This is a portrait I did of a student a while ago and based on the look of it she was fairly tired or bored at the time. It would have been about 8:00 am at school, so I guess that's pretty understandable and really she should be commended for not falling completely asleep.

We partnered up for the students to do each other's portraits with one sitting and one drawing and then switching off. After this drawing the entire class wanted to partner up with me, and so I did quite a few of these, but I only kept a couple.

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.

April Showers Bring May Flowers, Mayflowers Bring Pilgrims, Pilgrims bring Smallpox

Anybody throwing a baby shower and need an invitation design? Well, help yourself because I apparently missed my deadline for this one and have no use for it, so it's all yours, copyright free.

Hey, Zeus

It's Christmas in July! Or as this guy thinks of it, who knows what month it is because where he lives it's hot as hell the whole year!

This was a drawing from a while ago and was for a Christmas greeting card that said "Jesus is the Reason for the Season." His name is Jesus, get it?

He's a bandito that loves Christmas.

The Happiest Troll (because he just ate your baby)

I colored this happy troll guy up a bit in Photoshop and cropped off the part of the drawing that revealed he was wearing sneakers, because that part looked kind of stupid.

Rob loves Hooperball

Did you go to high school with this guy? Did he play on your high school basketball team? Was he also in band and that was what prevented him from ever being cool? Was his name Rob? What's that? All those things are true? How did I read your mind?

Actually, I didn't. I made Rob up, so if those things are true that's pretty creepy. Maybe I'm like a prophet or something.

Just a Hunch

I was watching the 1923 silent film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Lon Chaney Sr and sketched a quick impression. The makeup was pretty amazing for the time, but for my money though, the 1939 version with Charles Laughton is the best. Plus Maureen O'Hara looked pretty hot as Esmeralda. In it's defense though, the 1996 Disney version did have them all beat in terms of singing gargoyles.

I've never read the book, but the silent version had a lot of text to read, so I think that mostly counts.