No Drawings Today In the Mean Time Enjoy a Few Shots of the Sagrada Familia - Antoni Gaudi

I'm working on a drawing of the one legged guy that ran the laundromat.
But the Sponge has keeped me very busy the last few days.
Happy Thursday

Laundromat

Is there such a thing as a nice Laundromat? I don't think so. Oh sure they've had some upgrades since my last visit. A television enclosed in the wall, with a scratched spit covered Plexiglas shield. This is a plus. It seems to keep the wackos at least partially distracted from the higher functioning who are just trying to get through the arduous and oh so human task of washing the dead skin cells from their daily attire. But other than that, Laundromats are the same decrepit bung holes that they have been since I was a child. There are too many similarities between the interiors of Laundromats and the interiors of jails. The only difference being, that when your done washing and drying you can without permission escape the Laundromat and go to warm comfortable place where you are 97% less likely to get shanked for no reason other than you blocked someones view of the Plexiglas spit covered television.

When I was a kid I distracted myself from the misery my mom was having to endure by going out side and staring at the false leg of the the man who ran the joint. The damn thing looked like he had whittled it himself, a squared off open sided box, with a little striped pillow to cushion his stump from the hard reality of the wood that reached down to the floor for him. Or I could climb behind the wheel of my mom's car, a 57 Plymouth. That was hours of fun. All car interiors used to look like rocket ship control panels. A four year old could have a serious adventure just pretending to fly that thing mars. Unless like myself he managed to get gear shift lever in to neutral sending all five thousand pounds of car careening backwards down the steep parking lot, across the busy street, and into the lawn of the apartment building across the street. That landed me barred from the car, and staring at the old coots leg again.
So all that said, does anyone know of a truly nice Laundromat in the Valley? My machine is going to be down for at least another week.

Shitlog

Yes it's Shitlog...It's For Kids! An age old Spanish tradition for Christmas. Children run up to the Shitlog and beat it with sticks . All the while chanting "Shitlog, Shitlog, give us your candy or we will beat you with our sticks, Shitlog ,Shitlog! Thats right kids its Shitlog. But you can't have this one, it's John K's. because he has a special place in his heart for all kinds of logs."
Unfortunately, I shot this from a poor angle, blocking his cute little expression and obscuring his pipe.

Doodles 1-5-07

Above are a few doodles from yesterday. The first guy with the divot out of his forehead, was a fellow that Stevie and I saw while ambling around Barcelona. the flesh filled hole between his eyes was an inch deep and about the size of my thumb print, and if you've never seen my thumbs, let me tell you, they aren't small.

Man with a rabbit in his head, I think, needs no explanation.
Likewise the bottom left as it has a caption.

Bottom right is another continuous drawing of one of the SpongeBob writers thinking of ham.



The guy with the collapsed face in the shell was inspired by Kenny's little shelled creatures.

Continuous Line Drawig

I went to Spain over Christmas. Saw a lot of great architecture, ate copious amounts of wonderful food, and walked my legs off with my gorgeous gal pal. Surprisingly I didn't get very much drawing done while I was there.
However I was inspired by the Picasso museum. He did a series of of continuous line drawings of the circus theme. Now from everything I've read about the man, I'm guessing this was one of his exercises in one ups man ship that he would spring on unsuspecting artists that would come to visit. "Yes you can draw, but can you do this?" and he would proceed to whip one of these out. This all conjecture on my part. But that aside, back at the hotel I tried my hand at it and whipped out a drawing of my girlfriend, and guess what?! She liked it! Ain't love grand?

Is it Friday yet?

Pointy plus doodles

The Funeral Grimace

This is the face you feel like you're sporting during and around funerals. On the one hand, you are completely broken up about the person that is gone. But you are seeing people that you haven't connected with in years, and before you know it you find yourself standing there cracking jokes like everything is hunky-dory. What ever the hell that is.
Anyway this is a little drawing in homage to that implosively conflicted moment.
Cheers.

Old Doodles New Doodles

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Old Yellow pad doodles.
The round headed character with the squinty eye, isMilo from the Oblongs. I was directing on the show.
Originaly Milo was supposed to only have one eye in the center of his head.
But the Execs grew frightened, and made us give him two eyes. Go figure, its alright for Prime Time charaters to be yellow with spikes on their head, or to have balls for a chin, but a one eyed boy.....too scary.






A man with an enourmous hand peeks out of a blind.

How my dog celebrates the holidays

In the dark of night, in the light of day, when my dog Rosie (A mini-aussie) feels a tiny bit tacitly starved, he spends a little quality time with his wee plush friend.
His choice of positioning in this activity is terribly human. Couple this with penchant for watching television, and I think I now understand how the charges for uh hmm...adult programing that I never saw, were ordered through The Dish network.

Better Run

Diarrhea of the pencil

This is what happens when I forget to think , at least a little while I'm drawing.

Who's ready for the weekend?
Me,me,me,me!

Phone Doodles 11-15-06

A little more of the potato wine guy. A detail of his shoe that wouldn't fit on the page. At least not at his ankles. The girl in the corner.Ehh, it's an example of the style, but no substance that JK mentions from time to time.
The happy amputee in the corner was kicked off from seeing some Russian pictures from the 1950's in a documentary I was watching on UTUBE.




This guy, angle and all, literally just fell out my pencil.

What happens if you drink too much potato wine

I noticed once I start something slightly decorative, another usually follows close behind.

A Birthday Card

And a FlutterBy I drew for my Step-daughter's 11th birthday.
That's all for today. It has been a very busy Monday.

Expanded "The Rape Eye"

Some peoples Rape Eye is less malevolent.
For instance one friend, (Who shall remain nameless) when he sees a particularly beautiful women, looks more like he is stunned, aghast, or even disgusted. Like he can't believe what he is seeing. His head cocks up, ( hey cut it out, that laughing) mouth drops open, he crinkles up the flesh on his nose, and peers through the bottom of his glasses. For all intents and purposes looks like he is examining a grotesque bug. This is followed by a slight head bob down and head bob up every few seconds as if someone were lightly cracking him on the head with a rubber mallet. Then after he has soaked up all of the lovely lady's information, he goes straight into a full blown Tex Avery wolf take.

My Neighbor Kenny

Another Doodle

This one is of SpongeBob's Background Designer, the inimitable Kenny Pittenger.
Check his Blog at http://kennypittenger.blogspot.com/

Caricature

John's and Marlo's caricatures got me so excited I had to try a bit myself. But as stated in an earlier post, I really have to turn my mind upside down to keep from doing the systematic crappy way that I was first trained to attack the subject.


This is a drawing of Derrick Drymen. I didn't have any US magazines laying around, so the celebrities are safe this week.

Best Day Ever!

Hey They actually used the image. I'm happily stunned.



This was a piece done for the Marketing of an episode called "Best Day Ever".
Don't be confused when you see the episode. There is no submarine/bicycle in the episode.

I drew the rough sketch. Robert Ryan Cory did the masterful clean-up and filled in the interior of the submarine where I had left a couple nebulous pencil scratches.
It was Teal Wang that did the color, Peter Bennett applied some shading..

Doodles and "The Rape Eye"

This is a phone doodle/warm-up drawing. The last couple of months have been so busy, that I've barely had time to draw. I mean beyond work drawing. Correcting the perspective on Prop designs, adjusting lines of action and acting in storyboard drawings isn't nearly as much fun as doing the drawings from start to finish.



This fellow runs the operations at The Giant Hand Carwash . He has a look that says "Draw me!" A bold look that I guess works for him. I keep expecting to see him in a movie, doing a drug deal or something of that ilk. The girl in the hat and glasses is from the same location waiting for here car to be finished.
My ability to draw women is woefully in adequate,. But even a poor drawing of a pretty girl will usually get their attention. (Just a side note for the single shy cartoonists out there. Draw, Draw, Draw them close to you......Okay that sounds creepy, but it really does help. Smile when they look at you and your rendering of them. Then take the next step and start talking to them. All the while keep smiling. I had a friend that used to ask me why it was, that when a woman caught me looking at her ass, they would smile and give me a happy " I caught you with your hand in the cookie jar." eyes, but when he was busted in the same activity they'd give him the I hate you eyes. The answer was simple. When he would look at them, without being aware of it, he would slip into his serious SEX face. We've all got a serious sex face, but a women shouldn't see your serious sex face until you're having serious sex with her. Then it's an appropriate and welcome intensity. If you have that look on your face the first time she lays eyes on you, that same intense stare that later she might love will be interpreted as only one thing. "The Rape Eye." So put a smile on your face, and she will most likely smile back.)

Listen to him ramble on. What a schmo.


More phone doodles. I don't care for most of these. But I like the little guy in the corner with the Stamp in his hand. I like a drawings that make me want to draw more, either to forward a storyline that the drawing conjured for me, or to lean in a direction of a particular mood.
The drawing of the girl on the bottom left side was me trying to remember my girlfriends features the day after I meet her.
I failed miserably at capturing her likeness. It got all clunky and formulaic. This is one of the dangers if your first art job/training was at an amusement park drawing caricatures of the hideous, draw the right eye, draw the bridge of the nose, draw the left eye formula . It's a ruinous way to learn.

I did warn you that this would be a place of incoherent thoughts right? Well since as Uncle Eddies has stated "They haven't invented a decent fake muscle shirt." I am off to the gym.
Have a great Saturday.
Go now! Get out amongst 'em and draw.