Tilda continues to dominate me… maybe I should stick to drawing people that aren't famous, so no-one will realize how bad my likenesses are.

No, I really do mean to get her down, somehow, and I've started a different one just to study her face more, but MAN is doing [...]

Might as well chuck these up here.

First, and saddest: this one I had higher hopes for, but an error in execution has, I realize, doomed it:

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The plan for this was to have it be straight black and white, no hatching, and certainly no greyscale. It was a color [...]

It's all Crumb's fault… I'm reading his goddamn life story in this Art Book Coffee Table thing of his and I just can't put it down, except when it makes me leap up and lunge for my sketchbook. It seems he does everything in ink – does he [...]

A mini-gallery this evening. I should preface this by saying that I got my books below and I’ve been voraciously reading Crumb – the Coffee Table book is especially, unbelievably BRILLIANT – and feeling more than ever that the most important thing is to just keep that [...]

Loving the scanner.  My old scanner would barely have been able to see this.

This is an idol of some sort, I think… found a photo online that was kind of cool.  Work in progress, but I wanted to try the scanner on it.

I wanted to try something in pen and ink after reading all that Crumb… hoping to do some stuff maybe learning from his style. This was an abject failure in that regard – even as imprecise and loose as it is, it doesn’t have a shred of Crumb’s [...]

I’ve been debating about whether I should post my latest drawing here, because it’s the first one that isn’t "family-friendly" and I know some people read this who might be offended by such things. I think what I’ll do is provide warnings in the summary and post the image itself [...]

OK, here’s the proof: my scanner DID suck.

This is off a Canon CanoScan 8400F, default settings, scanned at 72dpi, no touching-up. THAT makes me want to actually scan things.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to test out the film scanning bit – can this thing really turn negatives into good pictures? I’ll [...]

I actually spent tonight hunched over three (!) other drawings I can’t seem to finish, but this one was done during a short break as a real quickie and I kind of like how it turned out.  How come I like most of my quick toss-offs better than the ones I labor and sweat over?

Also, [...]

I just watched Crumb.

Wow.

I didn’t know whether to think about it or draw first, so I did both.