Category: Sketchbook

2016 Monster Month: Day 2 – The Red Scourge

Beware of the Red Scourge!

Oh, don’t get me wrong. He’s not mean or anything. You just don’t want him preparing any meals for you because you just know you are going to end up pulling great big long red hairs out of your dinner, and that’s just nasty.

 

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On the plus side, the hairs are long enough so that you could use them as dental floss after the meal.

 

You are probably thinking he is named the Red Scourge because I drew him with a red pencil, and you would be partially correct. The “Red” part is also is because of where I drew him. This monster was added to my sketchbook this past summer when I was on a camping trip in the heart of Russia. I know that sounds like I just made it up, but it’s true! I actually went on a six-day camping trip in Russia. I’m glad I had my sketchbook because there was LOTS of time to add things to it in between swatting mosquitoes.

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2016 Monster Month: Day 1 – Frankenstein

Welcome to the creepy, spooky, and altogether ooky (I may have borrowed those words from somewhere) very first post of this year’s Monster Month here on the ol’ blog.

You may have noticed that last year I did not do any Monster Month posts because scary as it may sound, I was so preoccupied with work that it had slipped my mind that October had come once again.

There has been no mental slippage this year! Get ready for a new monster to be posted each weekday during the month of October. You will see twenty-one sketches, ink drawings, paintings, and various other artistic expressions of strange things that go bump in the night.

What better way is there to start such an entourage of entwined entities than with one of the greatest classic monsters who has been fearing fire since 1818, your undead favorite and mine, Dr. Frankenstein’s monster!

 

Frankie is just waving a Monster Month welcome to you!
Frankie is just waving a Monster Month welcome to you!

 

Frankenstein’s monster has made so many appearances over the years on my blog that he has his own category on the home page. If you would like to see other iterations of him from the past, CLICK HERE! Regarding this new one, this Frankie is a traditionally drawn ink sketch from my sketchbook that was later color tinted in Photoshop.

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Drawn & Quoted: The Old Coach

 

“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”

– Yogi Berra (1925 – 2015)

 

Old coaches never die, they just change teams.
Old coaches never die, they just change teams.

 

Today happens to be the one-year anniversary of the death of baseball’s beloved, Yogi Berra. I was a kid from Jersey who was a huge Yankees fan, and I seem to remember that not far from where I lived, Yogi Berra owned a fitness club with racquetball. I always loved racquetball, but by the time I got a driver’s license and could seek it out, I moved out of state. Ah well.

This drawing, however, is NOT of good ol’ Yogi. I just felt that if an old baseball coach was being posted for a Drawn & Quoted post, who better to quote than the most quotable old baseball player. Yogi was the natural choice.

I like the nostalgia of baseball. I used to play in high school, and still have a love for baseball despite not keeping up with the current status of the game. Old photos of America’s pastime, and even better, illustrations that immortalize the essence of the sport from days gone by always make me recall the smell of the glove, the buzzing of the bugs, and the wafting scent of freshly cut grass from my position in the outfield.

I was doodling in my sketchbook the other day, and as this face emerged, it just made me think of an old, grizzled baseball coach, wise beyond his years with the science, psyche, and feel of the game, so the hat and suggestion of a uniform were added.

Then, of course, the quote from Yogi.

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Lil’ Leopard

Once in awhile I doodle on the back of envelopes. When it comes to this, I’m certainly no Abraham Lincoln who famously scribbled The Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope. No, instead I doodle more inspired things like this little leopard…

 

Hopefully this did not make it into the mailman's permanent collection of interesting envelopes.
Hopefully this did not make it into the mailman’s permanent collection of interesting envelopes.
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Drawn & Quoted: Abundance

 

“America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad – based on huge portions and fast food. Let’s stop with the excuses and start creating something better.”

– David Chang (1977 –      )

 

Well, it is a large portion, and technically, it is fast food.
Well, it IS a large portion, and technically, it IS fast food.

 

I’m not sure this is what Chef Chang meant, but the drawing still seemed to fit his quote in its own way. The thing about this kind of fast food, though, is that you have to be faster in order to catch it. However, just be careful with those portions. Too big might be too much to handle.

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Do You Instagram?

Earlier this year a friend talked me into joining Instagram. I was apprehensive at first because it was going to be yet another thing to update constantly, but when I took a look and saw all the amazing creativity there, it felt like I should have joined that party long ago. So, I got on my computer and joined it, not realizing that the only way to post was to do so from a mobile device. As a non-mobile phone user, this complicated things.

Well, I got it worked out, and have been posting lots of art there. While some drawings only make it to Instagram, some also get posted here on the ol’ blog. So, I invite you to check it out if you also are an Instagram user, and follow me there. My handle is ChadFrye_IllustrationGuy (naturally), and you can get to it by CLICKING HERE!

You can also be whisked away to Instagramland by clicking on the image below that features some Instagram posts.

 

Some of the many pieces posted on my Instagram. Click on the image to check them out!
Some of the many pieces posted on my Instagram. Click on the image to check them out!
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Drawn & Quoted: The Thinker

 

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

– Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

 

The Meaning of Life 2.0
The Meaning of Life 2.0

 

A new sketch made its way into my sketchbook the other day. Inspired by Auguste Rodin’s Thinker sculpture, here is a robot contemplating the meaning of life while sitting on top of a pile of discarded technology.

Our society today eats up the latest technology at a voracious pace. As soon as the next version of something comes out, whether it is a computer system, a smart phone, software, or music playing device, people just HAVE to have it even if their previous device still works and serves them well. How depressing it must be for a robot who comes to this realization.

Now excuse me, I think I hear my rotary phone ringing…

 

By the way, it has been awhile since my last Drawn & Quoted column (2012 – yikes). If you’d like to see more of these from the past, feel free to CLICK HERE!

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Birdman

The next time someone says to you, “It’s like a walk in the park,” think of this man and how difficult that walk in the park could actually be:

  1. What happens if someone else’s dog starts to chase his large pet?
  2. Can he keep the bird from attacking little children?
  3. And lastly, but perhaps most importantly, how can he possibly bag whatever his pet leaves behind?

 

I just hope this bird NEVER sits in a tree above my car.
I just hope this bird NEVER sits in a tree above my car.
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