Just some stuff I doodled while waiting around, or sitting on the train, or something. It’s actually kind of hard to doodle on the train. Not sure when the dates are on these.
I have been trying to establish doodling as a daily habit. Some of the things I’ve done in the last week or so: Babbys, and half a preschooler. A hipster couch. I still find inappropriately steampunked objects disproportionately amusing. I need to practice backgrounds. I hate drawing them, but I love seeing them well-done. I [...]
It’s probably not a great sign that after six months of blogging about drawing, my best stuff is still done in 10 seconds on the whiteboard. I appreciate the wonky trompe-l’oeil effect on this women’s Bad Boy shirt. “Appreciate” meaning “recognize,” not necessarily “like.” I’m working on a second blog with a different theme which [...]
Because ’tis the season, here’s a special holiday comic: I didn’t specify which holiday. I drew this pretty hastily around Halloween, when our computers got stolen and I couldn’t scan it. I like it enough to share off-season. The thing about comics that I’ve discovered since starting this blog is that it can be a [...]
I drew this retro-dorky cowboy kid when I drew yesterday’s husky boys. See, I was thinking about husky sizing being a relic of the past, like how “Western” used to be a popular movie genre, and how clowns used to be entertaining and not terrifying. Turns out slim/regular/husky kids’ sizes still exist, and I’ve been [...]
A couple things from the sketchbook. Apropos of nothing, here’s me in a Slanket. No, emphatically not a Snuggie. Are you crazy? Snuggies suck. And here’s a chubby sad kid: I default to three-quarters view when drawing people, because it’s the easiest. Less foreshortening, and profiles are just trouble. The head-on view looks a lot [...]
Ice Cream Lady looks horrible in panel #2, no? Oh well, I guess that part looks bad. Distractingly, hilariously bad. Kindergarten bad. This is why people draw comics in pencil first. Also why people spend more than five minutes working on things and why, when you make a mistake, you don’t just go “OH WELL [...]
One more Mall Cat tomorrow, after my early morning skerping!
Sometimes (always) my favorite ideas are the stupidest ones. Enter Mall Cat. Everyone loves a cat who solves mysteries!
Jim really wants me to see Machete. I told him I already know how it goes. I know I have it partly wrong. For instance, Machete is supposed to have hair.
