third drinker and fourth drinker

It's been a good weekend so far.
The sun came out, we didn't get rained on once, and I was able to draw two more sketches.

Things have been pretty busy at the old homestead/studio. We have fourteen jobs, all of a sudden!
Luckily, it's been a slow burn and seems like a good pace.


This dapper gentleman is dressed up for a few cocktails at the flight club.
He'll be out late. Don't wait up.

Then, there's this one.
He's been having a rough go of it lately and has taken to drinking his troubles away. Poor guy.
It really hit him hard when his unemployment ran out.
Things'll get better when the economy turns around, though.
Funny thing is, his great-grandparents were teetotaling prohibitionists.

second drinker

Here's the second drinker. This one seems to focus on the hand, too.

first drinker

I'm completing a series of portraits of drinkers.
These will be letterpressed onto coasters as soon as I finish.

I'm not sure what these represent, yet. Is it about drinking or the drink itself?
This one seems to be about the hand. The face is hardly worked at all.. almost detached.
Maybe it's just about holding on.

sleeping beauty

It's funny to think that ten years ago I drew exclusively with a mechanical pencil.
So much has changed since then. I was reluctant to ever go to art school, because I liked saying I was self-taught, and I was afraid art school would destroy my style and force me to draw like everyone else. This was a legitimate concern because there is a definite difference in works done by someone with an art degree and someone without. After art school, that difference is more apparent to me, and boy, am I glad I decided to go! I definitely do not feel like "they" diluted my "natural talent." On the contrary, I feel like the education has increased my skill and medium versatility and improved my artistic practice.

I'm such an art snob...

turtles all the way down

We have started to address our lack of card selection. We have cards for the major card holidays, but relatively few for other important moments, like when you just want to tell someone that you appreciate them.

This one was obviously inspired by Hindu mythology.
The world rests on the back of an elephant standing upon the back of a turtle.
The question, then, is what does the turtle stand upon? The answer, evidently, is a turtle, and that turtle rests upon another turtle. In fact, it's just turtles all the way down.

In Stephen King's book It he describes the death of the turtle. Pretty creepy, and what a giant shell!

christmas '79

Sometimes, when I don't know what to draw, I open the family album. It's funny how these albums contain more than what's in the pictures.

another show for elie

The hardest thing about New Year Resolutions is keeping them. I read somewhere that the average lifespan for such a resolution is six days. Bummer.

Anywho, I did another show card for my friend Elie. She's much nicer in person than she looks here. This image only resembles her, really. Elie disliked this image so much, in fact, that she only used the text for her cards.. ouch!

Oh well. I'll keep drawing, if no one likes them. *sniffle*

I wonder if I can have 365 drawings done by the end of the year. Is there any way I can "make up" my late drawings? I guess it's up to me.

burnt norton

Well, it's a new year with new goals. One of my new goals is to draw more. My daily drawing scheme for last year kinda petered out by the end of the year, but this year things will be different *wink*. An auxiliary goal is to draw more of the images for our cards. Alia's been drawing most of our images, and I'm feeling rather envious.

So, yesterday I was riding the bus to work while I was reading "Burnt Norton," by T.S. Eliot, and one line in particular conjured a powerful image in my head. This isn't the whole image that popped in my head -- the image was actually a moving image, which is a little harder for me to draw ;P -- this is just the first attempt.

elie's show

My friend, Elie, has a show this weekend.
If you're in town, you should check it out.