Fun with BLOCKS...

Atticus, my youngest son,  being creative with shapes. It all starts out like a big mess of pieces all over the living room carpet. But somehow the mess is all good when my wife and I see the cognitive development being displayed at the end.

Ohh the joys of perception and creativity. I see mess and he sees things waiting to be discovered. I should talk, my studio space sometimes looks like a nuclear explosion of paper, pencils, paints, and several devices running at the same time. It works out being something in the end though or not. It's the journey that's important. Yeah, go with it. That's more of a serene way of looking at it.  No mess, no mess.

HillBilly BOB

HillBilly BOB realized that with every new bank account opened, he's awarded a new gun. It's a deep south AMERICAN thing.  BOB has now opened several bank accounts and collects a variety of guns.     

Evidently, collecting guns is like collecting coins, comics, or stamps. That was cool in my youth. I suppose the gun collector might have a hard time bringing them into show-in-tell for a classroom event.  I personally would be afraid to run into BOB at the local grocery store.

LAURA ANGEL

Today's daily sketch is LAURA ANGEL. Liked the idea of an ANGEL who has seen and been through too much to give a shit. For immortals, their POV of human history would be a history repeating itself over and over again, hamster wheeling for eternity-bummer.

This is my first real attempt at going right into digital without a pre-drawing. I usually have some pencil sketch that I can rely on, but not this time. Really like working with Autodesk's SketchPro. Happy with the results.

I imagined Laura to be fashionable grundge wearing diva  and being more intrigued with her yo-yo than saving humans from their idiotocratic ways. Maybe she was inspired by characters like Jessica Jones, Alias, Aeon Flux, and other ideas lurking in my subconscious.

Hope to include Laura in a project in the future, but like the saying goes, for people like me with busy schedules, "you won't have time if you don't make time," or what was it "schedule time"...lol

until next time...

EL Terrifiko

Decided to go Mexican but mostly in tribute to my Burrito guys. Although most, if not all, of my MEXICAN WRESTLING reference is in the spirit of Nacho Libre, cool movie but mostly because of Jack Black-poor and lame-I know. Well, there’s also the Intel I get from the guys who work at my favourite burrito place. They’re hardcore Mexican wrestling fanzines and sometimes will play the circuit fights on TV while I’m eating my Pollo Loco.

I do know that good Drama and parlor tricks are key to Mexican wrestlers and really cool outfits. 

EL TERRIFIKO is all upper body and looks like he can handle himself in the ring. I failed to mention that healthy dose of narcissistic arrogance really goes a long way too. Went digital on this one but relied on the original sketchbook sketch to keep the proportions accurate, than went straight to ink-digital ink that is. Thanks Guys. Until next time…

Some more sketches of Mexican wrestlers…

Brave Boy...

The Daily Sketch has taken a hit. Amen to that. I almost feel like changing the category to the Whenever Sketch or the Sometimes Sketch.  I won't do anything drastic yet.  It would be nice to blog daily but I do have a day job and the family at the end of the day.  Work is busy and I get to blogging when I can.  It's always exciting to get a post out there and even more exciting to be able to work on more stuff to post.  

Although I like the pencil version of this one, I make every attempt to use Sketchbook Pro to ink and colour.  It's my favourite digital drawing tool right now. I enjoy the process and try to use different tools to experiment with.  It can be frustrating at times when it's not working or I can't seem to get it to do what I want with it, but I'm told we learn through frustration-haha. 

Tabs and Pages are coming Ohh My

UNDER CONSTRUCTION WARNING

Trying to get sophisticated with tabs and pages in blogger. Didn't realize how time consuming this stuff is, so bear with me when you click on the tabs and nothing happens.  It's supposed to do that cause nothing is there yet. Ciao everyone and see you on the flip side.

Leaf Chores

This is what comes of asking my kids, Rowin and Atticus, to help pick up leaves.  My wife and I improvised with the headstones.

Plato, The Reluctant Soul

Came up with a few sketches of the Greek Philosopher, PLATO.  The early sketches led to more drawings, and I became so involved that he began to have his own personality take shape.  It's really awesome when this happens.  It reminds me of how so many characters we've come to know have influenced us: CALVIN AND HOBBES, PEANUTS, GARFIELD, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, and so many others.  Most times my drawings don't take on any expression or personality but this guy did for some reason and I just went with it.