Salem's Lot:
So it looks nothing like the sketch that I produced a couple of days before... I found my old copy of Salem's Lot, the first novel I read on my own. I hated to read as a kid. I loved to draw. Reading was a leeching of time from my drawing in my youth mind. When a friend invited me to a Stephen King lecture Back when Firestarter just came out... We were the youngest in the room. It changed me. I started Salem's Lot and it had a mood, it produced a magnetism that had me. I was 14 or 15 years old. It scared me so bad but was so hooked on the visuals that were being painted in my head. To this day, I don't think I have read anything that has scared me that bad... probably because I had no idea what I was in for. What a fool.

one last Halloween sketch before the day passes us all by. A preliminary drawing for "almost loose". I envisioned some scarecrow-ish ghoul come to life out in a field just patiently working at his task, knowing that it has time on it's side. It has been forgotten, presumed dispatched. It feeds on that vision in it's head. One more arm to go...

Island of Misfit Bond Villains: Would there be a minor league for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. assassins, henchmen, villains like there is in baseball? Like the Legion of Super-Heroes younger sibling the Legion of Substitute Heroes, where are the those that didn't get the entire super power gift basket? Or is there a training/secret lab for Evil just like for "Q" where they things may not go as planned?

one last drawergeeks. couldn't sleep again.

Dana point sitting 4 finally back to it... this shot is pieces of scans frankensteined together. Hey, I have a small scanner, and I am sensitive about it, ok? Ok. I think the groundsquirrel may end up on the eraser shreds pile before this is all overwith. It may end up there before the night is over.

Wednesday Sketch Group: 102108- showed up late this week. not much in the way of supplies either. So I just used kraft paper or what we all know as Grocery sack paper. Yup, I was brown baggin' it. That is why the fingerprints, and folds are still there. helps hide the poor drawing this week. Hey, everybody has an off day, or week.

Drawergeeks sketch... we had an extra week... so I grabbed a piece of old black mat board and tried my hand at my version of black velvet. Colored Pencil on black board. I just couldn't find where to fit in a crying bullfighting Elvis. I may try a final like this but scratchy if I have time.

please, PLEASE, will somebody actually come up to the plate and write an original story and make it into a movie? I don't want to see the latest pretty boy vomited into a comic book. No more shakey handed attempts at tracing over AND OVER ideas that have been marched before us as if something new has been added. Is it because the Studios are so fearful of another actor's or writer's strike? It is easier to do a tombstone rubbing of whatever sold last year and beef up the special effects. Those are non union ... so far.

Drawergeeks: Giant Monsters. I took a break from the editorial cartoony stuff. I originally was going to do a giant spider, then one of the Godzilla clan, maybe Gigan or Anzilla... then Kong just seemed to speak to me. Maybe it is the Beauty and the Beast story that hooked me? I don't know. It is either lacking due to no background, but having put in several that may not be it. It may be lack of dynamic point of view. In which this piece would be scrapped and an entirely new angle and point of view would need to be thought out. But it has been fun to see where this goes.

Drawergeeks: Nursery Rhymes -Mother goose: I chose The House that Jack Built. But after reading it, I kept seeing it as almost an hearing in court. An Attorney introducing a witness list... or exhibits.

bones and pieces: still life... really still life. started up a colored pencil piece. This is the center bottom of the paper. My scanner is small folks... small but mighty. We shall see how this turns out. The other rendered piece has had another sitting but it now needs a bigger scanning bed in order to get the thing into the 'puter. So, Dana Point will have to wait for a posting.

Brown bagging it... after the grocery sack handles rip off, the grocery sacks are great for sketch book paper... the acid content is high, so don't expect this stuff to last for an eternity. But for doodles, and prelims... heck I just love it.

The last few wednesday sketch group models.

This is the finished character that I had been seeing in Lee Ann's fabric design. I had to finally render it out. It was so much fun to do. Thanks Lee Ann for letting me rip off your hard work for my own fun. You all really need to see her work, it's wonderful. Lee Ann's Blog is http://fiberlab.blogspot.com/

This is the source that I used for my character. The fabric that Lee Ann created was amazing to me as a pattern. My mind started to see images throughout it almost immediately. So, a year later I finally put actions to words and created the character from her design. It is the post that follows this one.

Dana Point, session 3: Finally got back and sat down to work on this piece last night. Not too long, just long enough to show some progress, whether good or bad, it's progress.

a tiny little scratchboard portrait> 5x7".

What would you do for a Klondike Bar? Some questions were never meant to be answered aloud... they are so much more effective when left to the imagination.

Pages From The Sketchbook: squirrel sketches: working on some looks for a story with a young squirrel and a Mother Fox.

lunch time sketching.