I've been listening to Moby lately. Specifically the album Play. The song that was on my mind was Porcelain. I've had all this fun lately rediscovering music from years ago. I can remember when this album came out.....but am shocked to discover it was a whole ten years ago. I mean.....it doesn't seem like that long. But it was.



I really like this song. Here are the whole lyrics:

In my dreams I'm dying all the time
As I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye
This is goodbye

Tell the truth you never wanted me
Tell me

In my dreams I'm jealous all the time
As I wake I'm going out of my mind
Going out of my mind

I am reading a biography of Abraham Lincoln. The book is called A Team of Rivals. Its fantastic, if you like history texts that is. Anyways this is a quote from one of Lincoln's rivals and later cabinet member William H. Seward. He was talking about saving the Union, but I found it a great quote.

This collection of sketches came out pretty good. I likes it.

Bumblebee Tuna. Who doesn't love it. Or the song. "What song?" you say. Why the Bumblebee Tuna song by the band Mephiskapheles. That's right. It rocks. Here it here.

More random sketches. Woooo.

I wanted this picture of my eyes looking sideways. My biggest problem is that I can't seem to get the hand and the head to be proportional.

This came out weird. The guy has bug eyes. BUG EYES. Ahhhhhhhhh!!!

Just a silhouette. Nothing more. Ok. Maybe he's frustrated.

This a tin can that holds pens and pencils at work. Nicely drawn.

MY FOOT!!!

Here is another collection of random sketches. Basically when I cannot come up with something to draw I let my pen wander. These haven't come out that great lately but I've been drawing. That's the point.

So if you read the book Fight Club as opposed to just being familiar to the movie you find quite a few differences. The main character is in a coma and has this conversation with God. God implores him to realize that every single person is special and the main character gives up talking to God and says "Yeah, well whatever. You can't teach God anything."

The whole premise of religion in the book is that if a father is the image of God in a boy's head, what happens when your father is never around? Its an interesting premise. The main character talks about how his father was never in his life. Thus his version of God. Anyways...this is a take off it I did in two minutes one night.

There's this Killer's song called 'My List' I think. Anyways this lyric always catches my mind when I hear it. Ha....just looked it up to be sure. The song is called Read My Mind. How could I miss that?

Just a collection of sketches thrown together. Why not right.

Yep. Details are all lost on this scanner.

I am going to try and start drawing the human figure more realistically. I am going to buy one of those wooden model figures to draw from. I even downloading a drawing book on the human form I am going to try and work through. But I figure that I need a cheap sketchbook to do that in, those wouldn't count towards my daily drawings. I basically want to be able to draw a person without having to use a picture as a reference, and have it look somewhat realistic.

I've been listening to the Moldy Peaches often lately. Some nameless fantastic soul keeps bringing one song back into my head by making it their away message. I always wondered if its in reference to me. Anyways, this was from one of their other songs, called Nothing Came Out.

I was listening to the song Kerosene by the band Bad Religion tonight. I had this image in my head of a homeless man sleeping by a barrel fire. And even though I think this drawing is pretty faithful to the image I found on google, he still looks like he has a hump back.

I forget exactly what song I was listening too, but it mentioned something about him, or her, or you being miles away. I think it was a Portishead song. No that's wrong, it is from a PJ Harvey song, Angelene. But I changed it a little. This is another case of my scanner not catching enough detail.

I think this is kind of self explanatory, especially after you read the lyrics. Its from the Sparta song Cut Your Ribbon.

One of the more recent Smashing Pumpkins songs is called Rose March.

"I lay roses at your feet
'till you decided there is something great in you"

Would I ever raise a fist?

A while I drew some pictures to the Smashing Pumpkins song If There Is A God. In it Billy Corgan questions if God is among us. And if he's come and gone. He asks the questions "Who are you this time?"

I was listening to Modest Mouse today. He has a song called Polar Opposites. Nice and haunting. Made me think of two people that were polar opposites, the poles of a planet essentially. Forever trying to reach each, but never actually touching.

A quick sketch of a man holding a cup of coffee. And an eyeball in the background. A maybe, if it scanned in, a tear.

This looks much better in my sketchpad as opposed to the scan. It is missing a lot of detail. I am trying to draw other people as well as I draw myself. The difference being I'm not critical of drawing myself. So rather than draw someone I know, I just picked a random picture off google's image search and this is what I got.

I drew a bunch of random stuff today, and really really like how it came out. I started trying to draw a woman's dress and this is how I ended up.

This me leaning on my hand. I wish my scanner was better. It doesn't pick up much light shading. Its frustrating to scan and not see the details.

I drew this randomly at work. Came out ok.

I like drawing hands. It was something I've always had trouble with, but am getting a lot better. This one was particularly weird. I took a bunch of pictures of my hand and picked this one to draw. I like the angle because you can't see much of my fingers.

I had this image in my head of a guy sitting on the edge of a building looking down, like he was leaning over about to fall. I think it came out pretty good.