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Sketchercise: Films of Wes Anderson

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

(Bad Route by Jason Kottke, featured in the film The Royal Tenenbaums.)

Do you sit at home, alone, night after night just toiling away on portraits of Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman that the world may never see? Well, then today is your lucky Sketchercise! The theme for this round is The Films of Wes Anderson. Participants should put on their very best crested blazers, wetsuits or red Adidas jogging suits and set about drawing their favorite characters or scenes from any existing Wes Anderson movie. Although, actually if you drew an image from a non-existent Wes Anderson movie, that might be damned impressive. Below is a helpful list of from which to draw inspiration from:

Bottle Rocket

Rushmore

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Darjeeling Limited (including Hotel Chevalier)

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

That’s it! Good luck out there my Lawn Wranglers!

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Sketchercise: Evil Ex Kenny Powers

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Admittedly, I saw a really great drawing of Kenny that Brandon had done and I just wanted a shot sketching out this living legend my own self. Besides, I’m sure a down and out Ramona would be powerless against the advances of an even downer and outer, recently fired Kenny Powers in a sordid little sports bar someplace. So 8th Evil Ex Kenny Powers, let’s go!

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Hellboy Sketchercise: The Baba Yaga!

Monday, August 9th, 2010

This week’s Sketchercise is The Hellboy Universe and the character I’ve sketched up is The Baba Yaga, a scary old Slavic hag who rides around in a mortar counting dead people’s fingers and eatin’ toddlers. She’s a hoot and a half. I actually wasn’t that familiar with her but fortunately Brandon forwarded me this link where you can read her particular Hellboy encounter in full:  http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Animations/12/Hellboy-The-Baba-Yaga

I drooded this one here with a Japanese nib (Nikko 357) and a pot of ink on Bristol. Used markers for all that blackground.

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Sketches from Last Night’s Meetup

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Like Brandon said, last night’s turnout was really crazy. Lots of talented artists (as well as some non-artists hanging out) drawing cool stuff and talking about art.

This is what I sketched while I was there. Mostly just getting the feel for my new Pentel brush pen.

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Sketchercise: Lee Harvey Jughead

Monday, July 26th, 2010

So this week’s Sketchercise was a scene with three characters from Archie comics: Jughead, Betty and Mr. Weatherbee. I immediately scanned my brainpan for the most fun image I could plug these three into and what came out the other side was…. the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald!  I’ll admit my brain is, well, it’s not the healthiest organ around. But anyway, this was really fun and I think the 60’s connection between the characters and the imagery kind of marries up. I tried to spice this one up in Photoshop a bit to give it a newspaper feel. Hopefully I didn’t totally ruin it. Apologies to children and history buffs the world over.

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Sketchercise 2 theme

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Allright, gang. I gotta admit I enjoyed the groans I heard from one end of the table last night when I announced this week’s Sketchercise theme. Yes, you heard right. Draw three characters in one setting from the Riverdale gang: Mr. Weatherbee, Betty and Jughead. The rest is up to you. Have fun!!! :)

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Sketchercise- Bloom County By Way of Peanuts

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Bloom County had an enormous effect on me as a young dude. I used to cut the dailies out of the Concord Tribune and paste them into spiral notebooks where I would practice drawing Bill the Cat in the margins. I might have been the only 11-year old in my school who knew who Caspar Weinberger was. I like to think reading this strip contributed a lot to my skewed sense of humor and general skepticism of authority.

Here I’ve drawn Binkley and Opus as Schroeder and Snoopy, banging out some cacophony on piano. It ain’t Billy and the Boingers but I suppose it’ll do.

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Hickory Tavern Sketches

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

We tried out a new location this week and I think it worked out pretty well. We had a good group of artists come out to drink beer, eat burgers and draw in their sketchbooks. While most of the Sketch Charlotte guys fill their pages with imaginative cartoons or character drawings I tend to draw the people I see so here’s who I saw this evening.

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Harvey Pekar in Northampton, Spring 2010

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

On April 28, 2010, I had the opportunity to hear the late Harvey Pekar speak at Modern Myths, a comics store in Northampton, MA. I brought my sketchbook, as usual, and during the lecture I made some rough sketches. I thought they were pretty undistinguished at the time so I didn’t upload them, but in light of his passing this week, I thought I would share them.

He was 70 when he died. Way too soon.

Harvey Pekar at Modern Myths, Northampton 4/28/10

Harvey Pekar at Modern Myths, Northampton 4/28/10

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Direct ink goodness

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Direct-ink sketches from tonight’s Sketch Charlotte meetup. At left, customer with bigass awesome beard. Right, my buddy Henry, making funny faces as he drew, knowing that I was drawing him. Tonight I rediscovered the joys of direct-ink sketching. Forced my mind to tune in as it turned off and let my eyes and pen do the rest. As always, wonderful to see everyone, laugh, and try to figure out what the hell kind of movies or TV shows they were talking about.

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