Dr. Sketchy's #2

This time I won only one prize, for best abstraction thanks to this one:



Here's the other worthy sketches that came out of tonight's life-drawing session:

Dr. Sketchy's

I'm just back from a "burlesque life-drawing" session, it happens every Wednesday night at Dante's and it's pretty neat although they're still working out their routine. They got cut short today so they're making it up with an extra-long session next week. If you're in Portland, check out their myspace page.

At the end of the night they give out little prizes for quality, which is sort of counter to the exercise but it's not like they're worth anything and it adds a little fun. I won both "best use of color" and "most true to life" and now I have two skull-shaped shot glasses, a switchblade comb, a whoopie cushion, a rubber dog turd, some pencils, and a couple of those little plastic paratroopers.

Visited a Karaoke night tonight.

This was at The Alibi and I wasn't drunk enough to sing but I was inspired to continue with an earlier theme.

Popeye fights with a stingray while a shark and the ghost of Steve Irwin look on.

What goes through my mind while I'm at work?

I scanned some of the stuff I've been carrying around with me for weeks in my shoulderbag.





I'll post more of those as I clean up the other ones and/or color them. This one's on the back of a Bingo sheet.

Sick day, part deux.

After drawing my hand, coloring it in on the computer, and posting it here, I spent the remainder of my sick day watching Louis Theroux shows.

This is a freeze-frame from the opening sequence:


and this is an interviewee from the episode on extreme bodybuilding:

Home sick again.

girl from the train platform


home sick on the couch, studying my hand and the sleeve of my robe with a brushpen

Excuses.

Well I WAS going to bring this back daily but the next day I got a new hard drive and I installed it and turned my computer back on and it made a nasty grinding sound and then started smoking. I ignored it for a week, blew out the chipset fan with some canned air, and turned it back on. The noise was gone and it booted normally, so I went into the livingroom to get something and when I got back my room was full of smoke and the wire leading to the PC speaker was glowing red. I hit the power, went to unplug the wire and felt it crumble to dust in my hand. I powered back up and now the only problem is that it doesn't beep annoyingly when I first turn it on.

Since you probably weren't dumb enough to read all that bullshit, let's just skip to a few of the drawings I did while my computer was out. I colored two of them, since the mood struck me.

Someone should invent a glow-in-the-dark pencil.

I'm bringing this blog back in an unspectacular way. I bought a scanner last weekend and I've been doing enough drawing anyway I might as well share some of it.

I'd like to do some more comics but I don't have the time or inclination to do them in Flash anymore so what you'll probably see here is mostly sketchbook stuff like the following:

My housemate Tim talked me into going to the Doug Fir Lounge last night to check out a band called Loch Lamond, which was opening for Fernando Viciconte. It was a great show, albeit a change of pace for me in that it didn't drum up a lot of wild dancing. I took the opportunity to knock out sketches of Loch Lamond's Amanda Lawrence (viola, vocals) and Peter Broderick (drums, violin, mandolin, saw, theremin, vocals, etc) before they wrapped up.



Fernando was good too, but sort of a mismatch for the band. I drew him, and then we went home and watched Metalocalypse until 2.



I'd like to scan some of the drawings I've done during the lapse but my computer is all coked up on Windows Vista, which makes doing these scans a bit frustrating -- so don't hold your breath.