early halloween

Okay, so it's not halloween yet. But it's October. Close enough.
Here's a little picture from a self-promo last year, of some nice kids visiting the worm lady.

big wheel redux

The second time that the timeless Big Wheel has graced this sketchblog.


So my recurring themes seem to be:
cats
dogs
other sundry animals
astronauts
cowboys
aliens
things in fishbowl helmets
surly/sad people
birds
bunnies
star wars references
and now, childhood transportation devices.

cool.

metric cat

There comes a time in every young man's life when he's compelled by some inner, primal urge to measure cats.


This would be my cat:

green bird

Again with the birds and cats and cowboys. I need to get out of the house more.

Rooster

Based on a true story.

Tully had a racoon for hair...

...but he never let it keep him from his dream, which was to stay home with the curtains closed and chat on the internet with people who didn't know he had a racoon for hair. His screen name was 'nOrm4lha1R'.
Although truth be told, his hair was a badger who posed as a racoon, ashamed of his swarthy badger heritage. Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

Louie has a hammer

Yes, he does.

Deeger goes to prom

He's a little nervous. Thought his lucky corn hat would help.

speechless monster

You can decide for yourself what he's saying. Maybe he wants to swap cookie recipies.

bird snack

Kitty seems oddly resigned to his fate.

mad scientist lab

Cropped in on a back cover of something from last year. I could happily spend years drawing this kind of fun techno hodge-podge.

BUN-BUN

A fluffy bunny attacking the rebel base on planet Hoth.

my alarm clock

This was my alarm clock this morning. Joy.

Farmer Joe

All I remember about this peice was that it took over 6 months to get paid for it.

Frederick

I like drawing short squat people. I feel kinship with them.

ancient art

I drew this way back in the wayback. I'd love to get some of this looseness and spontenaity back again.
Dr. Evil stole my mojo.

Hamlet

Hamlet. As I remember it at least. Wasn't paying attention.

Back to school

Aliens are way more fun to draw than people.

scribbler

Just a guy with extraneous limbs. Made with help from the scribbler.

snow

Summer's almost over. Try not to think about it.

Bunnies testing nukes

Fluffy bunnies. Testing the Big Fluffy Bunny Bomb.

cool ceiling

This is a page from the Shark Tale Storybook I illustrated last year for Scholastic/Dreamworks. When the book was printed, an opaque text block entirely covered the cool ceiling with the light coming through the skylight. So I'm posting this here so the hours I spent on that part of the image won't be a total waste.

maggie

Our dog/cotton ball, Maggie. She mopes like this whenever my wife leaves the house.

update: Maggie has gone back to her previous home after mistaking my son's nose for a snausage. Don't let the door hit your fluffy white fanny, dog.

Alphonse

Just an old man. With Popeye arms. Whose wife is about to unleash some sidewinders on him from her jet plane.

Have a seat

Lil' sad alien in a chair. My dad had a chair like this. But not an alien like this. Although I never checked the attic.
I will always love drawing things in fishbowl helmets.

Frog attack

I did this as a promo piece, but never used it. I was never satisfied with it, and I finally figured out why (at least one reason)-
The frogs on the pond should be smaller than the ones on the bird. But they're the same size or larger. Which messes with the perspective. Which ruins the whole effect. Which makes me want to take up basket weaving or something.

I like the pilot, though.

Mullet Man

A mullet for Monday.

rapping cat

A greeting card I did last year. I like his fish bones bling.

Noah's Shuttle

In honor of the Space Shuttle likely going the way of the Model T, here's a piece I did last year as self-promo.
Re-entry would have its challenges.

Alien teachers

This is the cover for what would have been the sixth in the series of 'Sidekicks' chapter books by Dan Danko and Tom Mason. That is, if the publisher hadn't decided to end the series after the 5th book. A true loss for book-loving humanity.

Storyteller

This was for...um, I can't remember, but they were very nice people. This is an eccentric storyteller lady who had to fit within this tiny narrow space in the margin of the page she was on. This also marks one of the very few times I've ever drawn fingernails in my entire life.
I just noticed that she has no eyebrows. Tragic.
I must buy my wife a pair of stockings like these.

My Little Pony

This can only be interpreted as a cry for help.

bunny for Jabba

A fluffy bunny encased in carbonite.
This one's definitely going on a t-shirt.

ape

I forgot that I wasn't going to sketch this week. So I drew a small ape with a ginormous head.

old stuff part 1

Since it's a million degrees this week, and I've got a load of other work, I'm going to forego sketching in the mornings and post some old peices that I like. This is a greeting card I did for Recycled Paper Greetings a while back. It is my future.

KBRD radio

He's got his tunes, his lunchbox, and a sense of defeated resignation. He's ready for another day in the uranium mines.

By the way, the older images aren't loading right now due to a server glitch. They'll be back after these commercial messages.

smile

I drew this a million years ago. But I like it.

awkward tension

Some sort of little drama is about to unfold here. I have no idea what it is. If we're lucky, they might burst into song. Unlucky, Jerry Springer.

The old woman looks like she's levitating.

Monkey Tripod

The Martians really just want our bananas.

I liked him so much, I decided to finish painting him. A big welcome to our new simian overlords!

raining zeppelins

This morning I got one of those spam emails with the paragraph of nonsense down at the bottom, which included the phrase "The Zeppelins Rain Down Upon Us."
That sentence was truly worthy of illustration.

fat max

My cat has been switched to the cheap cat food. Also, he steals the dog's food. And he steals bread. And eats the trash. This is a barely exaggerated sketch of his current physique.

Slim

The rough'nest, tough'nest hombre west of the pecos. And he's fully confident in his choice of headgear, thank you.

Big Blob Wheel

A Big Blob on a Big Blob Wheel. His name is Bob the Big Blob. Oh, wait, no it's not, it's Steven. Never mind.

Monsterball

Another t-shirt design doodle. So your monster can play safely.

monodone

completed monobot. With squatty goodness. Coming soon to a website near you.

monobot

First sketch for a little guy to go with my future t-shirt website, monobot.com. He's going to need a few revisions. He's not squat enough. A good monobot needs to be squat.