I was riding passenger in a car on the way to Buffalo on Halloween. It was really dark out. I thought it would be neat to try to draw in the dark.

One of the neat things I always enjoyed about teaching was the presents you got from students. Over the summer one student gave me a head lamp. I have no idea where he got the idea from, or why he thought I needed one, but I appreciated the thought and it turned into a drawing. One day I'll go spelunking.

I was sooooo tired this day. Ich Bin Mude means I am tired in German.

WALL-E inspired obviously.

I didn't stop drawing. There were days I had to draw make up drawings because of various obligations and plain exhaustiveness, but its all back on track now.

As you can see with this drawing....all I thought of was sleep.

I put on my old beret today. It was a felt one that my friend Dan Yousey gave me after he went to France in 1997. It then reminded me of a character I created back in 1996 (I think....I know it was high school) which I believe was named Pepe. He wore a beret, smoked, and looked kinda like a skeleton. I always figured he was French. So today's drawing is Pepe, with a bunch of French stuff behind him. You can see an outline of France, the Eiffel Tower, the French Flag, wine and grapes, and the Arc de Triomphe.

One of the movies we watched today was Balls Of Fury. Personally I love it and find it hilarious. Jenna....not so much. But I had this idea of drawing stick figures playing Ping Pong. I just made a quick drawing...maybe later I'll retouch it.

I had looked at the video game American McGee's Alice, and that's where the woman's head comes from. The other is based off a portrait of Ethan Allen, the revolutionary war hero. Then I went on to Futurama Stick figures. I think when I draw a set of them I like, I might make a futurama comic strip.

I was listening to Hyperbola today. A friend's band that no long exists. But the band is very strange, and motivated me.

I have to get used to drawing with ink. I just use a regular ball point pen. I like it. Black ink. But I need to keep from smudging my drawings as I go. I don't ever draw from left to right or top to bottom, rather I sketch all over the place. Especially on drawings like these.

Tonight's sketch was a little strange. I was listening to White Stripes while drawing. Started with the two figures, then the eyeball (there's a nose and mouth there too), the stack of books and guy jumping off them, the woman's head, the mouth and nose, the jar of flies, the two balloon faces, the flower, truffala tree, and finally the pawn. It all came to me. Don't ask how.

Started with Home Movies stick figures, but then I was listening to the Clash for most of the evening, so the drawings took that turn. I also drew a little bit from album art for Siamese Dream and Danse Macabre (the Faint).

My Futurama stick figures inspired me to doodle some Dragon Ball Z stick figures. Nerdy I know, but what the heck.

Futurama has always been one of my favorite cartoons. I started with the giant Bender, then tried a smaller one before settling on the stick figures, which I thought came out great.

I bought Grape Ginger Ale this weekend. It inspired me. Then I added a bunch of stick figures. Jenna said it was kind of creepy to see the stick figures all over the place.

I was at Tim Horton's when I drew this. Hence the crazy donut.

I decided to doodle some aquatic life today.

I had no clue what to doodle, and wasn't feeling too inspired, so I decided to see if I drew my stick figures as well as I used to. I can draw myself no problem. Matt and Sean aren't hard either. But it's everyone else that is difficult. So I drew some random ones, drew my nephew Rider, and tried to draw a few girls, because I have trouble drawing female stick figures too. I mean if you don't give a stick figure boobs or a dress how would you know that its a girl. And not all girls where dresses, and not all my female stick figures will have giant boobs.



And because Pat asked, you should be able to click on the picture to get a full version.

I drew Delirium today. She's a character from the comic book series the Sandman. I think Reg introduced me to the series way back in high school. Delirium was always my favorite character, although Reg always preferred Death. There are a slew of ways of drawing her from the series. Here are three. I wish the ink hadn't of smudged.



On another note, Pat says I should put full pictures up on the site too. So I'll work on it.

I've made it a week. Wooooo. Its not hard. I actually enjoy this. So today I went down to Edgewater Park because it was such a nice day out. When you enter the park you are on top of a hill right on Lake Erie. You can see the coastline of downtown Cleveland. So that's what I drew today.

Jenna came up yesterday. Amongst the things she brought is an Ugly Doll. THis particular one is named Babo. So I decided today's drawing would be of Babo. Surrounded by stars.

Someone on my mind today. So I grabbed a bunch of pictures and tried to make a drawing collage out of them. I think it came out pretty good. My least favorite out these are the two I drew first with the rimmed hat on them. But it improved from there.

So I've been drinking again tonight. Here's the sketch. Its reflective.

I wasn't in a good mood tonight. But I had this image of a marionette doll. I just happened to dangle it over a fire pit in a forest.

I had this image of a girl in a hoodie. From there I just went with it (I was watching the Crow last night...which led to an awful failed attempt at adding him).

I haven't come up with themes yet. I really just started with the giant cell phone, stars and then people underneath the stars. From there I just wanted to fill up the page.