Silly Joke

By on Feb 20, 2017

My oldest has just discovered paperdolls. She has been doing origami and then was fascinated by paper planes. I’m hoping she is past the paper planes thing. She was waking up early and folding dozens of planes so when I would come in to wake her up I was met with a barrage of handcrafted missiles. Not my favorite.Anyway, we made a bunch of paperdolls varying in complexity. We made clothes and other decorations. While we were playing I couldn’t help but laugh at my own immaturity.I started a new drawing too. This one is going to take some time so I thought I’d post an early stage. I’m still focusing on line work. Textures and what not…There you go. Until next time…Milwaukee’s Best PrinterGreat Online Printing

Pokémon GO! Update

By on Feb 13, 2017

It has been a little while since I posted one of these. I spent all Friday coding so my head was splitting. I took off a little early and the weather was nice so I went and did some Pokémoning. It was a nice park with a Onyx nest. There were huge signs nailed to the trees cautioning people of thin ice. I saw at least 20 people just out wandering around on the ice. I should also mention the temperature was around 40º.Milwaukee’s Best PrinterQuality Online Printing

Another Quiet Saturday Morning

By on Feb 7, 2017

Every once in a while the stars align and I get a Saturday morning to draw. The girls were content with their over-sized cinnamon rolls and new animated feature so I was able to scribble out a quick sketch. We were at the Zoo the other day and they had a new cardinal. It was a little grey guy the likes of which I had never seen. It is smaller and more angular than the typical cardinal. I couldn’t remember what kind it was or where it was from but while trying to find it I did find some neat pictures of grey cardinals.While in school I took a technical illustration class. It was a good experience because it helped me develop my observation skills. Just taking the time to focus on every detail of the subject. Trying to figure out what makes it unique before even starting to draw. I had a professor who would talk about how labeling things makes us lazy. When you look at a chair, you...

Faulty Memories

By on Jan 31, 2017

When I started college, I was working at a big department store in their shoe department. I worked really early hours starting around 3am. I had several radios positioned throughout the stock room all tuned to the local indy station. 3am wasn’t the busiest time for the DJs so I would often call in and they would play my requests. I would win free tickets to shows almost weekly until they put a rule in place saying you could only win once a month.Those were the early days of craft breweries. One local brewery that made a hard push was Henry Weinhard’s. Henry Weinhard’s had a Red Lager. I was not of age but even then the independent nature of the brewery appealed to me. They expanded their advertising to include a Root Beer. The root beer was from the days of prohibition. Weinhard’s started brewing it to keep the brewery from going under. Being that...

Anatomy of a Drawing

By on Jan 4, 2017

So I had an idea for a drawing. Actually it started with the desire for really expensive pens. Every time I go perusing art supplies I see these really expensive Copic pens. Some places actually lock them up. They are around $8-$14 dollars a pen. I have problems doing washes and would like to get better at doing them but I hate wet paper. The way paper wrinkles and curls when it is wet drives me crazy. That is the sole reason I cannot stand watercolors. I thought I would find some nice light grey pens or markers to add some new dimension to my drawings. I then started thinking about the moon. The moon has a lot of texture and would be good for experimentation but I didn’t want to just draw a moon. I did some sketching and came up with this.It is rough I know but I like the idea of dealing mostly with negative space. At this point, I’m a little worried that I will not be able to pull...