Muchodos!

The Nose Knows

2009-08-23T15:59:00.001-05:00

Life Sketching

2009-02-27T21:11:00.001-05:00

The Dork Knight

2009-01-07T19:21:00.002-05:00

I saw the Dark Knight and I have to say it was way better then I expected this drawing to be. But still not too bad considering I haven't drawn anything in over a month. I'd like to post something witty here so that I can read it later and bask in my humility but I'm too busy for that today. Maybe later.

Paladin Level 5, 3D Mace of Learning

2008-11-14T18:40:00.002-05:00

Yeah, I used to play Dungeons and Dragons. But I also used to wear corduroy pants so you can't really hold it against me. These images have plenty of issues but I'm starting to get things to move in the right direction. Can't take credit for the bed (which is probably the coolest part of the thing) but other then that it's all me baby! Except for the chairs. Or the blinds. Mace of Learning!

Alfred Hitchcock Presents My Third 3D

2008-07-27T18:57:00.002-05:00

My Second 3D: 3D for Dummies

2008-07-27T18:54:00.003-05:00

I learned alot from this fork. You just have to know how to listen. Too bad it wasn't a tuning fork. Ba-dum-b...actually, I'm not even sure that gets a ba-dum-bum.

New DU Two Review

2008-07-27T10:46:00.001-05:00

The DU crew gets bigger everyday. Month.

My First 3D - A Little Golden Book

2008-07-27T10:45:00.001-05:00

G-Force. G as in 'Glide', force as in force

2008-07-19T20:30:00.003-05:00

Just for fun (sure this is fun! Right?) here is the original with legs crossed and the extra-crispy with legs in slouch mode. In retrospect not sure that it was necessary or successful to re-draw the pose. Well, I'll be; necessary has one "c" and two "s's" while successful has two "c's" and two "s's". Fascinating Captain. Anyway I did use reference for the uniforms this time. What I should have also done is decided on a scene before I pretended there was one. This is thanks to Photoshop's slight-of-hand. And the letter "G".

File this under "How did I not think of this earlier?"

2008-07-14T20:50:00.002-05:00

Rough sketch (aren't these ALL rough sketches?) of a G-Force pose. I can't believe I didn't think of this already! I will need reference for this when I revisit it.

Kung Fu Chicken

2008-07-14T20:42:00.003-05:00

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't draw as well as you want to. Damn! I wanted this to be better, so it WILL be next time. Practice may not make perfect but it's gotta do something! Anyway, I flipped the Chicken in Photoshop and realized that I should have drawn this as the pose in the first place AND I should have drawn this better!! Dammit!! It looks like Glide's taking a Boy Scout oath for cripes sake!

Kill Chicken Kill!

2008-07-08T20:44:00.002-05:00

Finally used a book I bought 3 years ago for reference! This pose was flat-out swiped from a poster for some movie called "Kill! Kill! Kill!". My guess is the movie was about some sort of killing. But seeing as how it's an old 60's or 70's B-movie, it was more likely about closeups of people discussing their plans and then one scene where some dude is running with a gun and shooting at stuff.

Robin and Chicken

2008-07-05T18:11:00.003-05:00

This took way too long to draw but just like Virgina Slims is to the ladies, it was worth it.

The Good, the Bad, and the Chicken

2008-07-05T18:09:00.002-05:00

Take two. I'm not talking about the candy bar or the R&B act.

Aging Amos

2008-06-27T20:12:00.002-05:00

I don't know who comes up with the names for these cats! Another work related drawing which has the added benefit of being fun to do

Apologies to Bill Maudlin

2008-06-25T21:22:00.002-05:00

This was done without any real reference so there ya go. It has some obvious (to me anyways) inspiration from comics I had seen by the late great Bill Maudlin. And by some old dude I saw riding a hog with the same helmet and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. I thought I flashed back to the 1950's except that I wasn't around in the 1950's. So I must have thought I flashed back to the mid 1990's when I saw some movie about the 1950's. If I do this again, I'll get reference first.

Chicken Royale

2008-06-19T21:48:00.003-05:00

Only my geekdom was used for reference. And it seems that wasn't enough. Surprisingly.

Feynstein bobblehead study

2008-06-13T06:46:00.004-05:00

This is pretty rough but then again my tools were an empty water bottle and a plastic fork.

A Chickenstrip a day keeps something something

2008-06-07T16:11:00.006-05:00

Did this from memory so I'm sure it has many MANY things that are incorrect and I'm not sure how to spell inconsistencies. But you still knew what it was didn't you? That's right, you did. So here's a little gift from me to you...

Healthy Hummus

1 can garbanzo beans (chick peas. Coincidence? I think not. Wow that's an old reference in the year 2008)

1 tbls Extra Virgin Olive Oil (the one that tastes like olives)

1 1/2 tbls Lemon juice (mine came from a real lemon shaped squirt bottle. Thats just like the real thing!)

1/2 tbls chopped garlic

Some actual green olives (I put in a forkful. Look it up. It's a word.)

Blend and enjoy meat-bags!

A Chicken a day...

2008-06-02T19:31:00.004-05:00

Had the idea to put the folks in different scenarios everyday. For example remember the Charlie Sheen/Emilio Estevez movie where they play garbage men? Nobody else does either but...what? You do remember that movie? Seriously? Did you see that movie or you just remember it being advertised? You actually saw it? In the theater or on TBS? The theater. Wow. Didn't that movie make $14 at the box office? I mean that would pretty much be you and your date financing that piece of garbage, pardon the pun. I'm sorry, say again? You saw it twice? Wow. I am REALLY sorry to hear that. Anyway, I never saw it and now I don't remember why I brought it up.

Wasn't overly happy with how this came out but that's not the idea. The idea is just to do it. Like Nike or Ben Stiller's character from "Starsky and Hutch."

Chickenstrip Deluxe

2008-05-31T21:59:00.002-05:00

Apologies to Bill Watterson, Berkley Breathed, and everyone else I've ever wronged in comicstrip form.

Holy Moses!

2008-05-26T16:29:00.002-05:00

Wow! I designed these shirts over six years ago and they are still going strong! Kopp's is the oldest bike shop in the country apparently.

Chickenstrip

2008-05-14T17:05:00.002-05:00

Since I haven't done much lately, I'll put this up here. I think this is from 2002; holy frijoles that's a long time ago, no?

Dude

2008-04-27T12:42:00.003-05:00

Dude. Originally drawn on yellow lined paper but thanks to the magic of photoshop you can still almost tell.

Mountain DU

2008-04-04T18:52:00.002-05:00

Some stills from the DU project in a faux storyboard style. Like if Pixar was spelled Puxar. Also trying out a pretty big image here.

Two New for the DU

2008-04-02T06:29:00.001-05:00

I'm a poet and didn't even know it.

Coloring Books are Hard part 1

2008-03-02T09:55:00.003-05:00

The one thing I'm really not very good at is everything and here is more proof. Okay, it's not that bad but there are certain rules to coloring books that I just don't have down yet. For example, coloring. I mean look at these images. No color at all. This is more like a colorless book than a coloring book. Also, you need to give kids lots of closed shapes to color which originally I didn't have at all. All my shapes were open and honest which I thought made sense since the saying goes "...like a coloring book." But I was wrong. Again.

Lights, Table, Action!

2008-02-23T10:56:00.004-05:00

Some roughs to post to print to trace to love. Remember from SchoolHouse Rock? Verb? It's an action? The kid goes to the movies to see Verb? Then he runs home to his Mom? Come on! I'm not that old. Right? Somebody knows what I'm talking about here. Actually, I think my brother is the only person who reads this and I know he knows what I'm talking about. So there.

Lights, Table, Action!

2008-02-22T22:58:00.006-05:00

Okay, really it's, "Light Table in Action" but does it matter in the grand scheme of things? No. No, it doesn't. Just like the Oscars. Ba-zing! Anyway, this is a composite of five different sketches all made possible by a light table. And the letter H.

P.S. In case you read this next month and wonder to yourself, "Why the Oscar dig? He doesn't seem like the sort of guy who would know what the Oscar's are?" it's because I was reminded by MSN this morning that the Oscar's are tonight. So I'm being topical. I have my fingers crossed for "Alien Vs. Predator Requiem" by the way. What a complete waste of absolutely everything that goes into making a (bad) movie! It's genesis must have gone something like this; "Hi, Predictable? Meet Crap. You two should get alone great! Now don't do anything I wouldn't do (wink) like have an unwanted child after a night of forgettable sex and name it Alien vs. Predator Requiem!" I'm big on quotes in this post.

P.P.S. Turns out the Oscar's are on Sunday. Shows what I know.

It's all happening at the MU two

2008-02-17T13:42:00.004-05:00

Now in Panoramic SuperDynaMation Technicolor

It's all happening at the MU

2008-02-09T18:14:00.000-05:00

Preliminary artwork for movie-style poster. The final will probably lose all the sketchy charm that makes me think this could work! Larger versions of these cats show up somewhere in this blog trail. Like the logo? It's all me baby! Except for the schools that I'm sure I ripped it off from. Think Notre Dame meets Miami.

Coloring Book

2008-02-09T12:19:00.000-05:00

Some preliminary sketches for a coloring book about safety. Remember,"Never run with crayons!"

Some More Stuff

2008-01-31T22:36:00.000-05:00

This painting of Kelly is pretty old but was intended to be one in a series of portraits. Then I got lazy. Or busy. Probably got busy being lazy.

Some More Stuff

2008-01-26T20:01:00.000-05:00

Here is a book cover I did for the textbook of the same name, that name being the name on the book cover. Not literally "The Name on The Book Cover". That would be ridiculous.

Some Stuff

2008-01-26T19:57:00.000-05:00

Here's a spot illustration I did a little while ago for the magazine "Genome Technology". As you can see it's mostly done in Photoshop. What you can't see is that it was mostly done in the nude.

Funny, you don't look like Princeton...

2008-01-22T08:50:00.000-05:00

The MU

2008-01-06T01:05:00.001-05:00

Apple a day...

2008-01-01T20:01:00.002-05:00

I had to use a flash to shoot this so there are some speckles in the image that aren't really there. The magic of illusion. Or allusion. Or alliteration. Collusion. Cohesion. That's all I got. Coercion. That doesn't even look like a word does it? It looks like the name of a new car. The Coercion from Chrysler. Comfort and speed. Gotta stop drinking the diet Dr. Pepper.

Apple a day...

2007-12-31T10:22:00.000-05:00

Should look better than this! This is more like an apple a month. And the apple looked nothing like this. Truth be told, it was an orange anyway.

December 18th?!

2007-12-18T20:56:00.000-05:00

Mark this day on the calendar folks...I posted!

Apples to Oranges

2007-10-21T16:46:00.001-05:00

I really need to paint more. These are the good ones and they're from months ago. Painted one last week but it's not up here. For good reason!

Been a long time since I've Rock n' Rolled

2007-10-21T14:42:00.001-05:00

Well it's a start anyway! Haven't drawn these guys in so long, it really does feel good to put em back in 'action'. It also feels good to have drafted Brady for my fantasy team but that's a different sortof good.

Chickenstrip Revival!

2007-10-13T21:41:00.000-05:00

No, not really but it felt good to sketch these guys up again! Ah, good ol' King Features Syndicates. Good times! These guys got as far as the college newspaper and the copyright office but got stymied by a hand-written rejection letter from Jay Kennedy at King Features. They also made it to somewhere around 500 Trapper Keeper notebooks since that's how many stickers are floating around.

Mild Mild West

2007-10-06T09:04:00.001-05:00

Mild Mild West

2007-10-03T21:01:00.001-05:00

Mild Mild West

2007-10-02T22:08:00.000-05:00

Texas Hold 'em

2007-09-15T22:13:00.000-05:00

More of the same

Texas Hold 'em

2007-09-15T22:08:00.000-05:00

Wanted the women to look a bit more cartoony so not sure if these are final character designs or not. Actually used reference for these to get hats, hairstyles. and clothes. So I got that going for me.

Space Tiger

2007-08-15T06:39:00.000-05:00

Something anyway 2

2007-07-29T15:08:00.000-05:00

Click on it. It gets bigger.

This is begging to be a Boxing poster. And begging looks like beginning misspelled.

Something anyway

2007-07-02T06:58:00.002-05:00

This was a pretty quick rough, 2-3 minutes. 3rd version though.

Life Drawing Round 4

2007-06-04T20:48:00.001-05:00

Life Drawing Round 3

2007-05-28T22:08:00.000-05:00

Tried photocopying sketches to shrink down and then scan in. Not great but then again, neither are the drawings!

You've Made Me so Very Happy

2007-05-02T06:41:00.000-05:00

is a song by Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

Now you know. Again.

Guess Who?

2007-04-29T13:14:00.000-05:00

If you can figure out who this is, 50 points. If you figure out what magazine I used for reference, bonus round.

Thanks alot 1970

2007-04-15T19:19:00.000-05:00

Hey 1970. This time it's personal.

Thanks alot 1970

2007-04-15T12:58:00.000-05:00

Sorry 1970.
It's nothing personal.

Miami Nice

2007-04-12T19:22:00.000-05:00

Mild Mild West

2007-04-05T21:57:00.000-05:00

Jeez, how many of these am I gonna draw? Get it? Draw...

Yeah. I'm funny.

Big Trouble in Little Sketches

2007-04-05T21:33:00.000-05:00

Thanks to my bud Ben for the inspirado for the new blogsite name. Almost the same, no change in the game. That's as good as it gets. Speaking of movies, this sketch reminds me of Snake Plissken when he was in Big Trouble in Little China. Best. Film. Ever.

Not really, but damn good movie. Title of this post doing double duty; homage to BTLC and to Hopwood hisself!

Thanks again, Ben you fargin ice hole. That's also a movie reference. Giggidy, gigiddity.

Mild Mild West

2007-03-27T21:05:00.000-05:00

I was feeling pretty good about this one until I started reading "The Spirit" as drawn by Darwyn Cooke. So yes, it's a comic book. But I've also read "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" as not drawn by anybody. That's right, BOTH. In the same year. So now I can read as many comic books as I want. Anyway, Darywn Cooke. Go look him up. Or read "Atlas Shrugged". Your call.

This is a Skull...

2007-03-27T21:03:00.000-05:00

This is a Skull with hair. Users are losers, don't do drugs.

Life Drawing Round 2

2007-03-26T22:11:00.000-05:00

Snake Wishkin

2007-03-20T21:28:00.000-05:00

Never saw "Escape from New York." Never saw "Escape from LA." But I did see "Big Trouble in Little China" and this is as close to Snake Plisskin as I'm going to get without reference.

Mild Mild West

2007-03-18T14:54:00.000-05:00

In a bizzare twist of life imitating art, these sketches were drawn just prior to my discovering (and soon after eating) Smokin' Cheddar BBQ Doritos. Try some and you'll see what I mean. You'll also realize how sad it is that I consider "discovering" a new flavor of Doritos akin to "life". Or is that readily apparent? Anyway, don't know why the Mild Mild West showed up but it did. Soundtrack courtesy of Pehnke.

Life Drawing Round 1

2007-03-12T22:30:00.000-05:00

Fake Matisse. The model was holding this pose but I just couldn't get anything from it. So this is what I got. I'll probably illustrator this up at some point.

Life Drawing Round 1

2007-03-12T22:26:00.000-05:00

Got bored with the model, quickies of a few of the folks. The one dude looked exactly like the old guy from Jurassic Park except without the hat. Or the dinosaurs.

Life Drawing Round 1

2007-03-12T22:22:00.000-05:00

If any of these look good at all, keep in mind that I have five times this many that were far worse. Yet again, more proof of the need to draw everyday. Lost my focus by the end of the session and ended up with the fake Matisse.

More Doctor Dudley and Friends

2007-03-10T14:23:00.000-05:00

Cal Conservative. Comes with action briefcase and cell phone. Kung-fu grip Cal also available.

More Doctor Dudley and Friends

2007-03-06T22:42:00.000-05:00

The good doctor himself and Sally's as of yet unnamed manager.

Doctor Dudley and Friends

2007-03-05T20:59:00.000-05:00

Possible characters for a new show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim (no actual title yet; the working title is "Frasier Animated" which pretty much tells you everything you need to know). Pictured here are Sally Sales, Gary Gambler, and Connie Competitor.

Coffee Folks

2007-03-04T15:47:00.002-05:00

Oh no you don't. Not this time. This time draw me when you get to the Cookie Cottage.

Old Dude Drink's Coffee

2007-03-04T15:45:00.000-05:00

'Nuff said.

Coffee Folks except not plural

2007-03-02T20:06:00.000-05:00

Still Small World but I almost like this one.

Coffee Folks

2007-03-02T19:48:00.000-05:00

It's a Small World after all. Small World Coffee in Princeton that is. Still being reminded of why I need to draw everyday.

Coffee Folks except not plural

2007-02-28T20:02:00.000-05:00

Really quick sketch of girl at Starbucks.

That's not Jim Morrison

2007-02-27T23:01:00.000-05:00

No it's not. But it was inspired by listening to the latest Doors compilation, available exclusively at Starbucks. Or Limewire. Why is he so mad? I guess the coffee isn't the only thing thats bitter. Hah!

Old Dude

2007-02-27T22:58:00.000-05:00

Seems to be a theme here. Old. The theme is old. Pay attention.

Cartoon Old Age Home Part 5

2007-02-27T22:55:00.000-05:00

I should have added something to the right side of this image to balance it out. But now that you know that, go ahead and just draw it in yourself. Be sure to use a dry-erase marker so you can clean off your monitor when you're done.

Coffee Folks

2007-02-27T22:51:00.000-05:00

I learned two things today. (1) Draw everyday and (2) if you stay at Starbucks til closing you get free coffee.

With sketches like these...

2007-02-26T21:09:00.000-05:00

who needs enemies. Just another reminder of the need to draw daily. Went to the NYC Comicon this weekend and I'll tell you what, you see what a dude like Steven Silver is doing (go ahead, Google 'im) and you get a pretty decent picture of what good looks like. So with a little elbow grease and a pencil sharpener, this will hopefully be the first and worst of a whole lotta lumps. Constantly improving lumps.

Editor's note: Any similarities between this sketch and the previous post are completely coincidental. Quickie sketch of dude ordering coffee at Starbucks.

The Missing Professor

2007-02-21T00:02:00.000-05:00

This would have been the basis for the professor in the Rube drawing but he was scrapped. So was the millionaire and his wife, the moviestar, and all the rest.

Jazz vs. The Space Tiger

2007-02-18T23:26:00.000-05:00

Now you know what a Space Tiger looks like. And a Jazz. A thousand thank youse to my bro's tenacious musical inspirado! Jazz on my brother!
Jazz on!

Cartoon Old Age Home Part 4

2007-02-18T22:11:00.000-05:00

How does he pick who gets old next? That's what you're asking yourself right now. Well, let me tell you, he doesn't know. He being me. Except that last one. That was a friend's idea. And this one. I walked past something that made me think of this. Funny, though, that it had nothing at all to do with this. I should pay more attention to things. Mickey Rooney.

Cartoon Old Age Home Part 3

2007-02-18T12:42:00.000-05:00

These are from memory so if they don't look like anybody, talk to my memory. I'm sure it will remember to get back to you. Hah! Funny.

Cookie Fortune

2007-02-17T21:36:00.000-05:00

Sure, I could have made this up but I didn't. This is an honest to you know who fortune cookie!

Beautiful.

Cartoon Old Age Home Part 2

2007-02-17T01:13:00.000-05:00

Why does this remind me of Mickey Rooney? Does anybody even remember Mickey Rooney? Well I do, so in your face Mickey Rooney. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Mickey Rooney or anyone associated with Mickey Rooney. Offer not valid in New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Mickey Rooney.

Cartoon Old Age Home Part 1

2007-02-14T09:05:00.000-05:00

Don't know why, don't care. But it's happening, baby.

Rube 'Nuff

2007-02-13T01:43:00.000-05:00

So, this is the third final drawing I've re-posted up here. Let's call this one the final final.

Editors note: This is now the fourth final version. So we'll call this the final final final. Finally.

Rube Rough

2007-02-12T22:10:00.000-05:00

A quick rough sketch for a Rube Goldbergy biotech illustration. Hard to tell what's going on here but it cleans up in the final. Hence rough sketch, eh? The finished version ended up a bit different, the dimensions needed to change and the Professor was scrapped. The finished version will be up soon.

Space Tigers

2007-02-10T08:40:00.000-05:00

Here's a quick sketch of my brother jamming at the "Cookie Cottage" with his jazz band "Jazz vs. the Space Tigers". That's right, the Cookie Cottage, you gotta problem wit dat?