Jul 02 2011
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is one of my absolute favorite novels and I’m definitely not the only cartoonist with an affinity for it. Most famously among us “indie” types is probably Jeff Smith’s homage to Moby Dick in his series Bone. In it, Moby Dick is the favorite book of one of the characters, Fone …
Jun 28 2011
Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Union Army general Ambrose Burnside. If I get flack for being from the South and drawing a Union officer, I’ll edit with Photoshop and add “stink lines.” If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.
Jun 27 2011
“M” is a pretty rich letter animal-wise. I went with the mandarin duck mainly because of my love of the children’s book The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks. It’s for sure a lot of fun to re-read books from my own childhood (George and Martha, Tomi Ungerer’s stuff, Sendak, etc.) with my daughter, but I …
Jun 22 2011
(Sorry about the bland title; I’d considered titling this post “Catch the Water in your Magic Paintbox,” which is a line from the totally hilarious psychedelic rock song “Rainy Day Sun” by Spın̈al Tap, but that song’s off their second record and I don’t think anyone other than me actually bought it.) Anyway… Here’s the …
Jun 21 2011
Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is The Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson. This is the second–and only slightly less terrible–of two finished sketches I did of him. I could probably get a decent likeness with another iteration or two, but there’s a point at which I’ve got to just draw the line time-wise for these sketchbook exercises. My …
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