A friend of mine is starting a recycled book company and he asked me to monkey around with a logo for the bookplate. I drew the whole thing in Photoshop. I’m really beginning to enjoy inking in Photoshop, now that I can rotate the canvas while I’m working.
Whilst I sit here anxiously awaiting word on a batch of roughs I sent to the art director of REV! magazine…I thought I’d share a few of the cartoons I’ve done for past issues. They may be too “insider” to be funny to most people…so pity laughs are acceptable.
Ken Raney over at Clash Creative commissioned a piece of art about a story proposal. It was a lot of fun, and I sure hope it comes to fruition.
Here’s a detail:
Hey hey…thought I’d upload another Google Earth sketch crawl entry! This one is from Coron Island, in the Philippines. My sketches don’t do justice to the beauty of that place.
So…my Google Earth adventures took me to Syria…and a landmark that I was heretofore unfamiliar with…the Aleppo Citadel in Syria. While the 360 photo had some interesting structures in it…I found myself drawn to the faces that were so prominently displayed there. So…my sketches are mostly of faces and people.
Here’s a painting I did for my daughter Janelle last Christmas. Kind of a fuzzy photo…but it’s all I was able to grab before she left with it.
Here’s another page from my Google Earth Sketchbook…I dropped into China…some place called Xinjiang Kashishi…it’s in the SW corner of China, and these are a few people who were around a mosque that is located there.
I just got done with a Google Earth adventure…this time I landed in Broome Australia. I appeared on Short St., at what looked like a roundabout, or a small town square. It was a street that dead-ended into a mangrove forest. It actually reminded me of where I live in Florida. Except for the mangroves, of course. I ambled down the road to a point where the Broome Lighthouse is, and did a little drawing there. All in all it was a nice trip. Cheers Broome!
I’m a big fan of Google Earth. I could waste hours going over all the amazing sights that have been cataloged there. It’s the poor-geeks version of being a world traveler. So today, I thought of a cool sketching exercise I’m going to do. I’m going to spin the globe in Google Earth, close my eyes, and stop it randomly. Then I’ll zoom in (if I’ve stopped on a land mass, obviously), and find the closest street view, or 360degree photo…and sketch what I see.
So this morning, I took a quick trip to Alexandria, and did a few random sketches from Cornish St, and out at the coast. What a fascinating place. The sketches aren’t very good…but maybe if I keep at this, I’ll get better as I go?
Here are a few random things scanned from one of my sketchbooks.
