Why the long face?
This sketch came about in a strange way. I just decided to see if I could fit three faces on the height of one page in my sketchbook. Mystery solved. I did it.
Category: Art: Drawings
Today is my pop’s birthday, the man who most influenced me to be a cartoonist even though he may never have realized it.
When I was a kid, my father loved comics. He’d come home from his job in the business world, and we’d get down on the floor and he would read the newspaper funnies to me every day before I knew how to read. He loved comic strips like Nancy, Peanuts, and Beetle Bailey.
What my dad liked, I liked. Back in January of this year, I came across this great piece I created in my youth. I love how this image of Sarge, a character created for newspaper comics, is surrounded by a background of newsprint. I also love how it looks like it wasn’t finished, yet it looks kind of cool in this unfinished state.
Due to becoming a cartoonist myself as an adult, I ended up becoming friends with Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey, and was able to introduce my pop to the legendary cartoonist. Dad enjoyed meeting my cartooning heroes. Maybe, in a way, they were Dad’s heroes, too.
Dad passed away last September, but his influence lives on. I’m still a cartoonist.
“Gee, Brain, what are we gonna do tonight?”
“The same thing we do every night, try to take over the world!”
– Pinky and The Brain (1993 – 1998)
It’s hard to take over the world when your evil lab is overrun with evil cats.
Well, at least it’s bear country on THIS page of my sketchbook. Grabbed a colored pencil, and once again explored one of the most fun animals to anthropomorphize.
Some do find it undesirous
To wear masks for Coronavirus,
While other breathers it may seem,
Really like them when they’re green.
Yeah. There’s not much to say about this other than that it’s a strange sketch from my sketchbook today. This is what comes from not leaving the house for weeks on end.
Thanks a lot Coronavirus.
Here in the States it is Secretary’s Day, or as the more politically correct term seems to be, Administrative Professionals Day. From what I have observed on those times I’ve worked at an office on this day, it’s a day when secretaries and assistants either get a free lunch or a Starbucks gift card.
So happy free lunch day all you secretaries and assistants! For many of you in quarantine, that probably just means you get to make yourself a sandwich.
Yeah, dinosaurs like to snack on tender morsels of man meat, but this caveman isn’t having any of it. In this age of Coronavirus, the dino needs to stand at least six feet away, which may or may not cramp his lunch leanings.
Not to mention, that drooling is DEFINITELY NOT sanitary.
