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 …
Jun 20 2011
You can follow the other “L” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all the entries so far, check out the Animal Alphabet Tumblr: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com. L is for Long-Tailed Weasel The original art for this is for sale here.
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