Its the last day of 2008. I'm not sure how I was feeling when I drew this. I was at work. Not happy. Not sad....just was. Anyways I kept thinking I had to draw something grand and big for this drawing because not only is it the last day of 2008, but also the last page in my sketch book. I have another to jump into, but it felt special, if only that it was coincidence that the last page in my sketch book fell on the last day of the year.

Instead of something big, I drew random stuff. I decided not to let a non-idea keep me from drawing.

Reg suggests I use the rubberband snap method to get thoughts out of my head.

There is an old picture of me from 1999, where I was a leader in a Color Wars week at a Computer Camp I worked at. My team was the purple team. We went to a thrift store to buy me purple clothes for the week. Purple isn't the easiest color to find. I had a purple mumu. It went wonderfully with a big purple straw hat and my orange hair.



Here's the picture for reference.

So I've been thinking of someone lately. Sue me.

This started as one thing, and became a jumble.

Ever look in the fridge to see nothing there. My own apartment fridge is sparse, but that is because I haven't gone grocery shopping in weeks. My parents fridge was full, but I could stand on my tiptoes and still not see anything in there I wanted to eat. Bizarre.

I brought Angelo home with me again this year for Christmas. He adapted to my parent's house much quicker than last year. Although he did hide under the bed a majority of the time. I drew a stick figure outline first (lower) and then a crappier larger version (top).

I drove 12 hours straight, through crappy weather, slept two hours, hung out with family, went to one extended family Christmas Party, and then another afterwards. I fell asleep at the second on a couch in the basement.

I don't know why I drew this...but I did.

Just thinking, about a trip to Buffalo. Not an actual trip I made, but one I dreamed of.

Like I mentioned in my blog, White Stripes. In the song "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)" there is this one line that says "with the weight of a feather it tore into me." I love that line. I just had this picture in my head of a feather falling onto someone's face and cutting them. I know its a figurative meaning in the song, but I think the image goes well with the line.

I was interested in drawing a river today. I found this amazing picture of the Hudson River. It was all sorts of dark blues, purples, reds and everything in between. Hard to convey in just pen, but this is how my mind saw it. A lot of the shading for the river and that sky didn't scan well.

I had a beer at T.G.I. Fridays for the first time in weeks. It tasted soooo good. So I made a quick sketch of it. Rough I know, but whatever.

I listened to a lot of songs tonight. I can't even begin to list them all. It lead to this.

I actually drew this today on my break at work (Today being the 18th) because I left my sketch pad at work yesterday (the 17th). Someone said I should drawn on a sheet of paper and stapled it in. That just doesn't work for me. Regardless.....I've had the White Stripes song "My Doorbell" going through my head all yesterday and today. So I drew it.

Like I mentioned in my blog, I listened to the White Stripes a lot tonight. Then I went and watched a whole slew of White Stripe music videos on YouTube and drew Jack and Meg

We have this cd at work we put together. Everyone got to recommend a couple Holiday Songs for a cd, and then we play them in the classrooms during the day. Of course someone picked "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" leading to this drawing. I didn't have a picture of a hippo, so my only reference point was childhood memories of Hungry Hungry HIppos. (In case you're wondering, the song I picked was "I have my love to keep me warm" by Dean Martin...not that I have a love to keep me warm right now, but its a ridiculously catchy song.)

I had a headache, and relaxed on the couch with Angelo today.

I have been broke and living off this bag of change. Not really living off it. I haven't spent a dime all week except for gas money, and that was a roll of dimes. Anyways, I spent some money today out of my change bag. But before I did I drew a little sketch of the plastic bag with all the coins in it.

I was listening to the Good Life During my break at work and just doodled whatever.

I have this necklace. I made it from other necklaces. The symbol is my Chinese Horoscope symbol. A necklace that I had bought in Chinatown in San Francisco back in the summer of 1999. The beads are from another necklace I had that broke long ago. And one plastic bead is from a bracelet I got while lifeguarding at the Glens Falls YMCA in 1997 (a kid had found a bracelet at the bottom of the pool and gave it to me). The ring....well someone very special to me gave me the ring. And it always stays with the necklace, regardless of how things are with that person. I used to wear the necklace daily. Then it got lost in a move. Now its back.

Somewhere along the line the dates of these used to be just placeholders. I wanted a drawing a day. And if I missed a day I made them up. Now I am drawing more on a daily basis. I make a drawing in my book, and then want to draw more. Some days like this I just throw whatever comes to my mind on the paper. Whether it makes sense or not.

I wish I had a clue what I was doing with this one. I just had these two images of a guy sitting on a hill at night and at the same time floating down a stream towards a waterfall. How does he do both at the same time. Is one metaphorical and the other real?

I like whiskey. And its what I drink if I don't drink beer. And sometimes....I run out.

I drink at least three mugs of coffee in any given day. My COPCO coffee mug is a godsend.

In college I used to copy down song lyrics I liked and draw to them. Sometimes lyrics just sound perfect. I was listening to random Killers songs, and heard the song Exitlude from the Sams Town album. I think it was the first time I consciously listened to the lyrics. And had to draw to them. It made me sad. Still does. But it didn't stop me from listening to it over and over again.

I thought about how to draw children. Didn't quite come out perfect.

In the back of my car is a badminton set. I started with the stick figure, and it lead me to this action shot.

Sometimes it rings, and I don't want to pick. No matter who calls.

I sometimes don't have clear ideas or images of what to draw. Sometimes I just let the pen run free. I scribble, and see where it takes me.

December. Its a month, well its a month that I hope will go buy fast. That will burn up and leave this year behind it.