THEY SAY SKETCHBOOKS ARE WHERE YOU WORK OUT ALL THE BAD DRAWINGS. YOU BE THE JUDGE.
Aquaqueen
Colored Pencil
I never quite know what will come forth when I stare at a blank page in my sketchbook. On this particular day, it was an aquaqueen with her minion octopus.
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Birthday Monster
Ink and Watercolor
This was a birthday card I made for my brother a few years ago. The monster came complete with a gift-wrapped tongue.
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Batman’s Milk
Digital
My little nephew was refusing to drink his milk. Knowing he loved Batman, my sister asked if I could draw a picture of Batman drinking his milk to inspire the little one to do likewise. So, I whipped this up for them, and sure enough, it worked! If Batman would drink his milk to get big and strong, so would my nephew!
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Frankenstein’s Monster
Colored Pencil
Inspired by the tragic friendship of the Monster with a little girl as I remember it from Boris Karloff’s famous movie, this colored pencil drawing spilled forth on the pages of my sketchbook.
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Tourists
Ink, watercolor & gouache
It’s always fun to travel and see new places. It’s just not always good to appear to be obviously unfamiliar with that new place, especially when the locals look…….hungry.
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The Barber Shop
Ink
I think we discovered the primary reason that barbers don’t sing in their shops anymore.
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Elephant Umbrella
Ink, watercolor & gouache
Raindrops keep falling on his head. That’s mostly because it is HARD for an elephant to find an appropriately-sized umbrella.
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Bugs Bunny
Pencil
The Looney Tunes were my Saturday morning breakfast of choice while growing up. They were just so stinkin’ funny. What a treat it was years later as an animation pro to have a great one-on-one chat with Chuck Jones for about fifteen minutes. The Saturday morning kid in me had his mind blown that day.
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The Square Dance
Pencil
“Swing your partner round and round, kick ‘em in the knees and throw ‘em to the ground!”
Wait, that can’t be right.
The Fox
Ink & digital
A fox meandered into the pages of my sketchbook. Sure hope he doesn’t find the page of chickens.
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Mickey Mouse
Pencil
Having first grown up on Disney comic books, and then having worked on the show Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, ol’ Mickey has shown up in my sketches a LOT over the course of my life. He is always such a joy to doodle, evidenced by the many smiles I get from children when I do one for them no matter where they are from. I was in Russia drawing Mickey for a child one time, and as the drawing started getting recognizable, the kid got real excited. I heard through translation that he said, “Oh! It’s the REAL Mickey!”
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Red Dragon
Pencil
No, this is NOT about Hannibal Lecter. This Red Dragon is literally a dragon drawn with a red pencil, complete with drool.
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The Influencer
Ink, watercolor & gouache
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank (1929 – 1945)
Robots Sketch Cards
Mixed media
Anyone remember the movie Robots released by Fox? (I think these days Disney owns the movie.) Obi-Wan’s Ewan McGregor was the lead character, along with others like Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, & Halle Berry. Back when it was first coming out, I was hired by Inkworks trading cards to create over 500 sketch cards that would be randomly inserted into packs of images from the film. I kid you not, I had two weeks to draw all of them. As a result, only a few were in color – it was all about quantity. Not knowing anything about the story of the movie, though, they let us get creative, so I ended up doing some parody cards. That parody of the Star Wars poster you see was the highest selling Robots card by any of the sketch artists on eBay for $385 I think. I was paid $3 to draw it. Good times.
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