DeLuxe Retro Motel

DeLuxe Retro Motel; sketchbook

This one comes under the heading of: germ of an idea. In other words this is the nucleus of a possibility, it may or may not become something substantial, but only time will tell. This is not a motel that exits, at least not to my knowledge. Although if it were an actual motel it would be on the beach at the Oregon Coast. As a point of interest, it looks like there might be a destruction derby underway in the parking lot, car A appears to be hurtling towards car B at a breakneck pace going in for the kill. But this is just over exuberance on the undershading—which is kind of like the drawing version of underpants, but not really. And yes, if this were an actual drawing and not a page from my sketchbook, I probably would have fixed it, or worst case scenario, done it over entirely.

Some Wicked Skulls and a Surly Punk

Partial page from sketchbook; pair of Skulls in my wicked new style.


Partial page from sketchbook; Skull & Surly Fat Punk.

I hope you all had a great weekend. I'm just glad to be finished with my fucking taxes. Just for the record, I don't have a problem with paying my taxes, but I DO have a problem with them being an enormous pain in my ass!

Well, this started out as a post of a neat little seahorse drawing I did. I scanned it and brought it into Photoshop for adjustments when lo and behold, I realized it looked like shit. Seriously—it was awful. So, I grabbed the sketchbook I keep in my car and took a couple scans from that. So, these will just have to do for now, a some wicked skulls, and a surly fat punk.

-Cheers!

Yes, I Am Still Here.

Hello kids, I apologize for the lack of posts lately, been battling some person demons, but I seem to be coming out on top. Anyway, here are a couple of pages from the ol' coffee shop sketchbook.


Knickers Girl.

Three Goof Balls and a Gal.

Stylish Pair

Here is a stylish hipster pair, although they really don't look like they are together. The reason for that is, that they are 2 different sketches that just happened to be on the same page of my sketch book. I really like the pose of the girl, maybe I'll use it for something someday soon.

Have a great weekend.
Cheers!

Skinny Minnie: Non Poses

Perhaps I'm spending too much time in coffee shops, but this is another one I did while sitting in my usual "watering hole". This gal was standing at the counter waiting for her drink, but I don't remember if she was actually that skinny or not. You see, when I'm drawing people from life like that, I try to be sly about it, mainly because if they realize what I'm doing, they either become self conscious and stiffen up, or they ham it up and start posing for me. All I'm looking for is the everyday slice of life, non-poses, I guess you could say. So, I usually just grab the skeleton of the pose quickly, and then move on. Odd as it may sound, I'm not drawing the person really, just the pose.

Have a great weekend.
Cheers!

Warts and All

Hello Kids, glad you could make it. I ran into a dry patch (post-wise) right around the holidays, and I think a big part of the problem (other than the mad dash scramble that is the hallmark of the holiday season) was that I was trying to make things too polished. I mean, after all this is a sketch blog, and sketches by their very nature, are "sketchy" . . . hence the name. So the next 4 or 5 posts things are going to be really unpolished images, warts and all you might say. Almost straight from my sketchbook, the real sketchbook that I keep in my car and drag into coffee shops, and wherever else I might find time to doodle. Mainly the only corrections will be some stray lines of over lapping images removed in Photoshop. This is just to keep me from getting too full of myself.

This one is called, for lack of a better name: Haggard Writer. Just something that came to me in the coffee shop one day, an overworked, underpaid scribe from the atomic era, trying to bang out a story in hopes of eating for a day or two. Oddly, my favorite part of this one is the art on the wall behind him, I don't know why, it just really makes it for me.