The Chad Frye - Illustration GuyWith 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.
Just a little something from my sketchbook today. And no, it is not a self-portrait.
Today is Star Wars day. May the Fourth be with you.
Today in the United States we have a little known and even lesser celebrated holiday called Arbor Day. It usually is superseded by the more popular Earth Day that came earlier in the week this year.
Arbor Day is all about trees, and folks are encouraged to plant a tree to mark the occasion. There are so many holidays on which people celebrate with a greeting card, but never for Arbor Day. This is strange to me, because cards most often come from trees giving up their lives to become greeting cards. So it is high time that there is a greeting card celebrating the trees that cards come from!
So, this year I sent these out to close friends, family, and business contacts. While more trees probably wanted to get in on the deal, they are too late. You now get to enjoy the card digitally!
So, all that to say, a very happy Arbor Day to you and yours. I hope you get lots of great Arbor Day presents, and enjoy the many Arbor Day parties you no doubt have lots of invitations to tonight! Stay safe!
Back in December of 2017, I shared with you a new and improved version of Captain Traffic, a character I created about 16 years ago for ComedyTrafficSchool.com. There were even more poses I did of the courageous Captain, and now that Comedy Traffic School is using a few of them on their website, it was time to show you a couple more here on the ol’ blog!
Originally conceived as a humorous comic book type of character all those years ago, the whole approach to the good Capt. this time was to create him without the typical comic book lines. It kind of gives him a more modern look now, with a hint of nostalgia and a whole lot of whimsy. And who doesn’t need to experience a little bit of whimsy when they have to experience traffic school, am I right?
If you’d like to see the previous Captain Traffic illustration posted last December, feel free to CLICK HERE!!