Cuckoo clocks and Mountain Dew

Ah, Dew at 12:03am. Dave would be proud.

My Lady Gaga piece for the Hallway show this week. Almost didn't do it and that would have been a real shame.
So these are kind of interesting. You know how...ok well I don't know how many of you actually do this, but it happens to me... You know how sometimes you'll be in a bathroom or in a place with a tile floor or a carpet that has lots of tiny markings on it? Like lots of different little colored specs or line and you'll just be there looking at the floor and all of the sudden you see an image in there? Like a face or something? It happens to me all the time. I see shit like that everywhere, in floors, ceilings, those old couches with huge flower patterns etc. Anyway, it happened at work today. I was in the bathroom and the little dots in the tile came together and I saw this....

Normally I'd go ah, that's cool and try to remember whatever I saw later but then usually end up forgetting. But today, I dunno, the composition of it, or the way her hair and dress seemed to billow out, I just had to draw it right away. Of course I was at work at the time and not really in a position to just whip out my sketchbook so I grabbed some post it notes and started drawing on one when I had spare time (aka, when no one was looking). It was incredibly fun! The thing about drawing on post it notes is that you have such a confined space to work in that it's almost a challenge to get a composition out. Especially when you're trying to remember something you imagined on a bathroom floor. I know. CLASSY. Another good thing about post it notes is you can just pull another one off, stick it on and keep on working if you want to expand. Like I said it's pretty fun. And a good exercise in focusing on one thing at a time.

I'm really excited about the sketch and I think I'm gonna turn it into a painting or something. At least I'd really like to! Here's another shot. Enjoy it!


Oh! Two more pictures:

Other things I do at work to keep things from getting monotonous, Kneaded Eraser People!


And my two adorable pet rats. The big white one is Rosamund and the little cow colored one is Artemis Birch. I call em Rosy and Arty for short. My family has lovingly (?) nicknamed them Biggs and Wedge. Three guesses on which one is which.

Smash Bros and Baileys

I know it's the same picture as the last post but I wanted to leave both up to see if there is a noticeable difference. It was pointed out that there was something that was weird about the anatomy in her hips so I took a look and realized that while the rest of her body was very elongated her butt was kinda...squished together...basically non-existant. So I added something and it looks like she actually has one now. It might still need work but I can tackle that when I actually get back to rendering the thing properly. Thoughts?

"The Compromise" and Nilla Wafers

Two days in a row? Oh my.
Here's some works in progress. Crits and suggestions welcome. Enjoy.

"Earthquakes and Sharks" and Tater tots

Hello sketchblog. It's been a while. I've missed you.

Working on revamping it. All colors etc is temporary. Blue is my favorite lately.

Here's Danny Devito for The Hallway Show. It was something I kinda participated in during school, where a celebrity would be picked and a bunch of us would draw him/her and tape it up on one of the walls in the Illustration hallway. I remember it being great fun when I actually did it so when I saw there was a blog created to revive it I decided I wanted in. So here's my Danny for this week. The quality is pretty poor seeing as I took the pictures with my cell phone camera. I'll scan it in properly soon.



At work, after 3 weeks, I'm finally starting to put things up around my little cubicle space. Here are some post-it note drawings. (Top left: Cthulhu and Choopa. Bottom left: My friends, Matt and Amy. Bottom Right: My friends, Nik and Raven. Top Right....I haven't a clue. It's a picture of some old Ken doll that was there when I started. I just left it where it was. )


My two work-spaces. I've got a studio area in the basement, where I keep my rats. It's not a bad place but it's in the basement so there's very little light coming in. I've got like 6 or 7 lamps to compensate. But on the rare sunny winter days that we get I'll work at my desk in my room. It's much more colorful in there anyway. Plus my old school secretaries desk is awesome.


Also it's occurred to me that I haven't pimped this in my sketchblog at all but I've started a webcomic. It hasn't been updated in a while but it will. I swear. Check it out.

http://wealldiddie.wordpress.com

Pandora and Iced Tea

Just started this tonight. Trying real hard to get motivated.



Also Big awesome super cool news. I've got a job as a professional Illustrator! I'll be working for a gift design company. I start monday the 19th. Here's to the first step in making it!

Wasting time and submarine sandwhiches

Oldies but goodies.

Blogs and Ice cream

her necklace says "you're the one my heart is set on loving"

I'm working on a new blog to host the comic I've been drawing. It's silly. Keep an eye out for it. :)