Category: Random Doodles

Buddies

Post author By Chad Frye
Post date July 8, 2020

If only all bears would just befriend some bees, honey acquisition might be a friendlier prospect.

A good friend is hard to find.

A little traditionally inked sketch from my sketchbook with some color added later in Photoshop.

This Little Piggy

Post author By Chad Frye
Post date June 25, 2020

You know all about the other little piggies. This is the one who stayed home.

Wouldn’t surprise me if he also went wee wee wee all over his home.

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The Big Thank You Search

Post author By Chad Frye
Post date June 7, 2020

This piece was created with thanks to all the medical workers (face mask), grocery workers (shopping cart), teachers (apple), farmers/food service workers (fork), delivery service folks (steering wheel), and science researchers (microscope) who have served our society during this coronavirus pandemic.

Click to make the thank you magically bigger.

The National Cartoonists Society put out the call back in April that cartoonists all over the world post this special thanks with these symbols in their art TODAY, and they are calling it the Big Thank You Search. So, if you look at newspaper comic strips, they should be loaded with these same thank yous, and hopefully lots of other social media posts by cartoonists today. I thought I’d break out my buddies Sam I Am and Guy Am I from the Netflix show Green Eggs and Ham that I worked on.

While I haven’t personally utilized the services all these professionals have provided during the past three months of lockdown, I am grateful they are there for when I do need them.

Thank you all!

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Bit of a Stretch

Post author By Chad Frye
Post date June 3, 2020

Why the long face?

I’ve heard of the long arm of the law, but 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.

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Peggy Lee’s 100th

Post author By Chad Frye
Post date May 26, 2020

Today is the 100th birthday of the late torch singer Peggy Lee. Not only was she the voice of Peg, the Siamese cats, and Darling in Disney’s original animated Lady & the Tramp, but she co-wrote all the songs!

I had a short fling myself with Lady & the Tramp some years ago. I drew an official coloring book based on the movie before ever entering the animation business in Hollywood. It’s been a while since drawing these characters, but it was fun to revisit them in my sketchbook. They are such appealing designs, and so wonderfully animated in the 1955 original film. It’s no wonder that beautiful film lives on in the hearts of each new generation that comes along.

While Ms. Lee had a long career as a songstress, it is certainly her work with Lady & the Tramp that ensures her legacy.

No bones about it, 100 is OLD!

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Drawn & Quoted: Mad Scientist

Post author By Chad Frye
Post date May 22, 2020

“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.

What’s truly evil is that they refuse to use the litter box.

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Bear Country

Post author By Chad Frye
Post date May 13, 2020

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.