The Chad Frye - Illustration Guy…flock together!
Hey, if you find a group to hang out with that you get along with, hang out with them!
Traditional ink drawing in a sketchbook, colored in Photoshop.
The birds, but no bees. Bees would just get in the way.
Ink and watercolor in a brown paper sketchbook.
Today be the official “Talk Like a Pirate Day.” So, shiver your timbers, yo ho ho, and swab those decks, but just be sure you are doin’ it in a high-pitched squeaky voice like these here pirates be doin’.
“Swing your partner round and round, kick ’em in the knees and throw ’em to the ground!”
Wait, that can’t be right.
A pencil sketch from my sketchbook. Might be fun to one day develop this a bit more and make a nice traditional watercolor painting out of it.
When I was a kid, in the fall my dad would pack us up into our faux wood-sided station wagon and drive us up to New Hampshire where we’d enjoy the fall colors of the region while he traipsed through the woods with friends as they would go bird hunting. We enjoyed lots of tasty meals from those trips that consisted of pheasants, woodcocks, and once even a goose! Good memories.
Some days it’s appropriate to just remain serious.
The song from the bird of paradise is not always welcome. But, do you put up with it? Or do you shoot holes in your hat?
It’s always so annoying when your dog plays hide and seek without informing you of the game first.
A recent sketch from my sketchbook.
