Drink & Draw

I'm organizing this little evening of drinking and drawing, which I hope will be repeated regularly. I made a little ad for it so I could post it on people's MySpace pages and whatever, and I suppose it belongs here as much as anywhere. If you're in Portland or plan to be, feel free to click through and sign up!


Dude and falcon both traced from a photo.

Another doodle using Microsoft OneNote

This time I was on a conference call, so it was even easier to be sneaky!

More drawing in bed

Saturday mornings allow for more thorough drawing before getting up.

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Another drawing done in bed, this time immediately after waking up -- before even putting my glasses on. I spent half my lunch break coloring it.



I like this little experiment -- my subconscious mind has good ideas for drawings. If I ever actually remember a dream, I'm gonna try and capture it.

First Thursday Link-O-Rama

The first Thursday of every month, the galleries of Portland's Pearl District open their doors to the public; as a result, most of the good art shows open on that day. Two of the guys I used to drink and draw with on a weekly basis were revealing their new Public Access show and accompanying comic book at the Sequential Art Gallery so I decided to show up. Their project is crazy and cool, and not totally my style but I bought the comic part of it anyway because it's well done and those guys are awesome. On my way out I started chatting with the gallery curator Kaebel, and ended up showing him my 24-hour comic attempt just to see his reaction. Another guy, who turned out to be one of the gallery's previous exhibitors, flagged my attention with a mention of pub trivia (one of my favorite pastimes) and when he passed me at the bus stop a few minutes later we struck up a conversation about Bill Watterson, creative ideals, lesser-known Greek myths, and the concept of absurdity. Check out his webcomic -- he reminds me of a cross between Randall Munroe and Brad Neely.

Aanywho... It's just another doodle but you can't accuse me of not posting any artwork.



P.S. I forgot to mention that the Sequential Art Gallery is located in an artist's loft space which was planned and developed years ago by my dad's old company. Kaebel lives upstairs from the actual gallery space, says it's a fantastic situation and, Dad, he specifically asked me to thank you!

MS Office OneNote: Margin Doodling for the 21st Century

I had a meeting today about the massive stock options my company is giving out to all its employees. Those who know me well understand that I think better if I'm drawing or doing something else with my hands. Not only does OneNote give you a nice, clean, wide-ruled sheet of virtual notebook paper which can convert your handwritten notes into text on command -- it's also a semi-usable drawing program.



This Engineer, Russ, is very smart and nerdy and accordingly asks many clever questions. I think because of that I got away with glancing at him and scribbling a lot without anyone catching on.