Might as well...

Almost Christmas...

Just a rough warmup thing. Been far too long, ain't it? I must say, that is the tiniest vanity chair...

Happy Tuesday

I caught a glimpse of this kid on the patio as I walked into the commissary yesterday. She had no idea how to approach eating her soft taco.

The old man

California girl

...so called!

solo tennis

These drawings today are really spur of the moment, the sort of doodles I do on the cintiq when I take a break. With this tall, british, tennis playing girl from the late 30s(in my mind, anyway), I started drawing her right calf first, pulling it down to the ground, then drawing back up. Strange, but there you are.

Suddenly accosted

over the shoulder

irish dance

gloved

I feel happy

...and when I'm feeling happy, I feel like drawing.

My Backyard Birds

I recently added a couple of feeders and a birdbath to my backyard, and it's become an all-day party scene for the locals. Missing from the lineup are the (resident and nesting) mockingbirds and (occasional) scrub jay. Before moving to the San Gabriel foothills a couple of years ago I'd never seen a grosbeak, towhee or goldfinch at my feeder, but all the others are old friends. I've found their various personalities and antics fascinating. The boldest and least afraid of me is the tiniest-the 4" goldfinch. The Towhee is a quiet ground-scourer, and the finches and sparrows battle it out.

DoD: Cold Feet

This was the theme for Monday.

Tad

DoD: Water Pressure

...or lack of same.

DoD: Sour

Drawing of the Day

"...the password is: 'Pampered'"

I'm cleaning up my desktop and found some old WIP things from the beginning of the Dave Pimentel/Jeff Snow/Dave Derrick "drawing of the day" thing...just...scribbles.

Fruitful

I'm done with posting cintiq drawings here for a while I think.
This is a quick one drawn with a Copic marker. I put that tiny bit of color on in PS but that's it for digital with this one.

Jetta

This is a slightly different version of the drawing I did for Craig Yoe's new compilation book of the late, great Dan DeCarlo's "Jetta" comics.

the theme today is "tall"

grey cat

wading out

Drawing of the Day: Bird Of Prey

Today's 'drawing o'the day' theme was up to me, and so I decided to see what we'd do with this one. Go see what Snow, Pimentel, Dave Derrick and Louie Del Carmen have flown with on their blogs.

(a) Drawing (every other) Day, Monday edition

...posted Tuesday. Those other guys are sick! Yesterday's theme: Baseball.

A drawing every (other) day

A drawing of a female centaur, at the behest of messrs Dave Pimentel and Jeff Snow. Go see what they did with their theme of the day. They're both killer.

working and listening to Busby Berkeley soundtracks

Ruff ruff ruff

This is a rarity among the drawings I've posted here in that this one was drawn using a photograph of songwriter/performer Joanna Newsom as my model. I found it via Nico's's terrific site, liked it and pulled it up on one of the two monitors on my desk(the one that's in front of me being the one I draw on, the Wacom Cintiq). The photo was small and over to the side but I just wanted to glance over at it and freehand it for fun, not copy it(always a bad idea to "copy" slavishly as I'm sure you know).

Like the other drawings I post the idea is to just put down whatever I get and if I like the results at all--post it. As with the rest of my posts, if a drawing doesn't come out well I delete it and start another one rather than fuss with it.

The thing here was to get an impression of a stance and attitude. This photograph had a lovely posture, better in real life than I managed here but them's the breaks.

self satisfied

wintertime doodling

I know this is a weird one...I was thinking of victorian illustrations. And I know her anatomy's all cockeyed etc. Just for jolly.

utterly meaningless

...just a doodle to get the yayas out(and post something). You know, it's been one of those decades. sigh.

a story artist

dogs

I've put my one remaining pup in day care today for the first time in ages--well, really decades in dog time. He's an active fellow and troublemaker by default(usually). These are quickies done off the live webcam...oh, dear: I just saw him hauled off to solitary for a spell. Oh, the shame of it!