Sketch a Day, Day 100

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It says a lot that I include my wife and sisters-in-law with the fictional characters.

One hundred sketches? How the hell did that happen already?

Anyway, yeah, we’re in the triple digits now, baby! I drew this one in a sketchbook, so the original image is quite a bit larger than my usual work (though it still only comes up as the same size ’cause I took a picture with my phone). I’m glad so many folks have started coming by every day and checking my stuff out. Makes me feel all warm and squishy inside.

If you like what you see, spread the word! Tell your friends! Your enemies! Your pets! Y’know, assuming they’re pretty intelligent and can use the Internet (and have opposable thumbs). There’ve been several days in the past few weeks we’ve cleared 100 views per day…it’d be great if we could do that every day!

But, yeah, thanks everyone! Here’s to the next hundred!

Sketch a Day, Day 99

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Yup. A vomit joke. I'm classy.

It’s rather sad that the final sketch in the double-digits (before we hit the big 100 tomorrow) is a hastily-drawn piece of junk, but I feel awful today. The wife does, too. We think it’s food poisoning from dinner last night. Either way, all I’ve eaten today was a couple of pieces of toast and a ginger ale. I’ve kept it down, but only just barely.

Tune in tomorrow, when (hopefully) the comic won’t be about vomit and bodily functions!*

* – I make no promises, people.

Terra Nova

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I feel bad about yesterday’s sketch going up late, so here’s a little song demo thing that I put together awhile back. It was mostly an effort to figure out how to use the drum tracks in Garageband, but I also had a chord progression going through my head that I wanted to get to tape (as it were) before I forgot it. It’s a genre my uncle dubbed “Red Dirt Surf,” a term which I quite like (I mean, Oklahoma doesn’t really have any place you can find waves, but we had plenty of red dirt, and even if I don’t live there anymore, that place is in my bones). Anyway, enjoy “Terra Nova.”

Terra Nova

Sketch a Day, Day 97

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I slept for 12 hours. It was glorious.

So I’ve been drawing in the evenings after all of my work and chores are done. Usually, this isn’t a problem: the Adderall keeps me moving and awake well-past when I’d like to be abed. However, I haven’t been taking the Adderall on the weekends, and I’ve been feeling…drowsy as a result. Couple that with the fact that my wife kept me awake most of Friday night (and not in that sexy way), and I ended up going to bed at like 8:15 last night. Without having completed the day’s sketch.

So, yes, I apologize for the lateness of this drawing. It won’t happen again, unless I happen to be really sleepy and go to bed before I’ve done a drawing. In which case it’ll totally happen again.

Sketch a Day, Day 95

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Bully, indeed.

My sister in law, Allison, she of the delicious cakes and bizarre dialogue, has promised to put a picture of my choosing on my birthday cake later this month. This was what sprang rather immediately to mind. I mean, Teddy Roosevelt is obviously the best of presidents, and also a dude who would straight up punch a bear in the face while wearing a monocle.

Sketch a Day, Day 93

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Seriously, it's old news, but Rob Liefeld cannot draw.

Today, I had to explain to my wife and sisters-in-law who Rob Liefeld was. It…wasn’t pretty.

Seriously, anyone who read comics back in the ’90s already knows everything I’m about to say, but for the uninitiated: Rob Liefeld is a comic book “artist” who cannot draw. His grasp of anatomy and perspective were…woefully inadequate, to say the least. Back during the 1990s, you couldn’t open a Marvel book without seeming his artwork, and now…despite the fact that it’s twenty years later and the comic book speculation that his own work helped fuel has burst in a way that’s painful to even talk about…despite all this, he is writing drawing and writing a book (and writing two others) for DC. It just…doesn’t make any sense.

So yeah, a Liefeld joke. Because it’s still timely and appropriate in the year 2012, apparently.