I would like to make my gentle readers aware that I now have an account on Formspring.me, the site where you can ask me questions anonymously instead of just e-mailing them or commenting on my blog like a regular person.
It's essentially just another form of internet time-wasting, but it's kind of fun so far. So go ahead, ask me some questions.
More goofing around with watercolor pencils, on a postcard this time.
Quick experiment with watercolor pencils. I think it actually looked better before I did the wash over it.
This could probably be considered a decent drawing of a hamburger if you try to forget about what a real hamburger looks like.
When I was a little one, the thing I wanted most was a pet monkey. I grew up in a household moderately interested in exotic pets--at various times we had miniature horses, llamas, African pygmy hedgehogs, parrots, foxes, a skunk, and Bengal cats, and had acquaintances who had emus, deer, zebras and even a serval cat that literally clawed its way through its owner's bathroom door. My family had toyed with the idea of getting a wallaby or a fennec fox. Yet my mother still didn't consider a monkey to be an appropriate pet.
In retrospect I am relieved that she didn't give in on that one (mostly because there is no ending for that kind of story that does not involve stitches), but at the time I found it unreasonable. Of course monkeys were safe, I thought; otherwise they wouldn't sell them! I didn't see what could be wrong with having a little organ grinder monkey to ride around on my shoulders wherever I went. I fantasized about it.
What ho, Internet readers! It's been some time, hasn't it? I've been doing a lot of going to bed early and a bit of reading and a bit of cooking and a lot of thinking about things, but very little productive, I'm afraid.
So, rather than posting drawings (which is probably what you're hanging around here for), I'll tell you about an interesting product I ordered that just came in the mail today. It's the Storyboard Book! They're little pocket-sized 32-page sketchbooks made specifically for storyboarding (or other activities where you may wish to accompany sketches with notes). I haven't used mine yet, but they look like they have potential in comics-making.
They seem like pretty sturdy little books, too, but only time and use will tell whether that's actually true. The covers are a sort of light cardboard/paperboard, and the paper itself is of a good quality. The smell and feel of good paper (new or old) triggers the release of pleasure-hormones in my brain--this is how I can tell.
I'm not entirely sure what I plan to use mine for. They're pretty neat, though! If you want to order your own, you can get them here.
Back Octoberish, at the Gargoyle Centennial weekend, my pal Adrian Choy was passing around a piece of bristol to the artists in the room, getting us to pencil in some characters. Besides me, Cathy Fisher and a few other folks did some, too.
I drew exactly four characters, all of whom should be terribly obvious to anyone who's browsed the gallery here.
NOTE: The below illustration contains nudity and crude humor. Please do not click it if you do not enjoy these things.
Adrian did a beautiful job with the inking and coloring, as usual. Apparently this is the back cover to the latest issue of the Gargoyle, too!
Watercolor and ink. 2.5" x 3.5".
A friend's cat has an important business to run.
