The Chad Frye - Illustration GuyYesterday it was Father’s Day here in the States. While my pop doesn’t look like a desert hare, he did grow up in Arizona and always thought of himself as a cowboy.
So, this is dedicated to my dad, Cowboy Dave – the roughest toughest hombre to work in a suit and tie in Jersey City, but always wanted to wear his cowboy hat.
A couple of weeks ago I posted a sketch of a frog about to dive into some water. I still had froggies on the brain, so a few pages later in my sketchbook, a full fraggle of froggies filled a page. (Don’t ask. I have no idea what “full fraggle” means.)
My sister Tori and her husband Frank are interested in adopting a little girl from India to add to their family of three sons. It is a long and expensive process, so I helped out by designing a T-shirt for them with what they wanted on it that they could sell as a fundraiser.
At $25 each, they are a little pricey for a T-shirt, but the purpose is to serve as a FUNDRAISER. 🙂 So, think of it as you are donating $25, a portion of which helps them with the thousands and thousands of dollars needed for adoption, and in return you get a T-shirt designed by yours truly.
Plus, you’d be helping my folks to gain their first granddaughter after having nine grandsons. So, there’s that, too.
Thanks for the consideration!
Just one week ago I was in Philadelphia for the National Cartoonists Society’s annual Reuben Awards convention. I hadn’t spent that much time in that city in years, and I loved it. I love the history in that city, and wish that more of the colonial times had been preserved there.
I was disappointed that each day I tried, I could not get into Independence Hall. I just thought you could show up and go in like Nicolas Cage did in National Treasure. Turns out that you probably need to book your admission months in advance. Thanks for the misinformation Nicolas. Sigh.
Anyway, I got to doodlin’ in my sketchbook the other day, and came up with this man from the colonies with a stowaway on his rad ponytail. After finishing it, I realized it was an idea I had seen before in an old Disney cartoon called Ben and Me – the man & mouse part, not the ponytail set-up. Seek it out if you haven’t seen it – Benjamin Franklin owed all his achievements to a mouse.
With schools finishing for the year and the temperatures rising, the swim season has begun! Hope you get some time to enjoy the lakes, rivers, oceans, ponds, pools, and puddles out there with fun and safety!
Here’s a little sketchbook doodle with a Dark Brown Prismacolor pencil portraying some summer time well spent…
When I open a blank page in my sketchbook, often I don’t know what will fill that page until the pencil hits the paper. In a way, it’s a bit like improv – free association thinking once the first line is drawn. Thus was the case with today’s piece.
This sketch started with some eyes, then the idea of making it an elephant came along, then the idea that he should be dressed in a tweed jacket and bowtie, which led to the glasses, and finally the idea of putting the intellectual mouse on his shoulder.
– Franklin P. Jones (1908-1980)
I recently attended the birthday party of a grown-up friend of mine who is quite the collector of things. What do you get such a person who probably already has most of the cool stuff out there? You make them their own custom birthday card, with added extra credit for making it monstrous.
So, here’s a card starring Frankenstein’s monster and his irrational fear of flame.
