...Boober

Yep. :P

The Olympian Ideal

I am by NO MEANS a sports fan... and yet, I absolutely love the Olympics. I think it's mainly because each event (that I enjoy) only lasts a couple of minutes. Unlike mainstream sports, I am able to emotionally vest myself in an athlete's story, take a couple of minutes to watch them succeed or fail, and then say "Yay Olympics!" After about two weeks of this, I'm good... and will be for another four years.

Here's my boy, George... (not my Boy George) depicting the embodiment of the Olympic dream.

And Dooooooooon't You For-GET It!

I thought I'd do some more Hanna-Barbera characters in the same style as before. Here's the great Quick Draw McGraw with his faithful sidekick Baba Looey. Hanna-Barbera seemed to have some sort of thing for short and smart sidekicks.

Baba Looey & Quick Draw McGraw

The textures I used are all from cgtextures.com. They're completely free so check them out if that's your sort of thing.

Look Ma! A Fwaggle!!

There's not much to say about this one. It's Red Fraggle from "Fraggle Rock."

You're probably wondering why there's all that space to the right of her. Maybe there's supposed to be a giant Doozer tower there... or wise but sassy Trash Heap. Maybe it's a palette for an unexplored facet of your whimsical imagination. As for me, it's where my Desktop icons go.

Dance your cares away, kids.

The Cult Classic!

So just in case there's not already enough evidence on this blog of all the pointless things I like to do with my free time, this should do quite nicely. I grew up loving me some Disney Afternoon.

There's an episode of Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers that has permenately lodged itself into my memory due to a catchy commercial jingle featured in the episode. It's titled "The Case of the Cola Cult" and features a group of mice that worship a soda-pop commercial. I thought it would be fun to design a poster for that soda. Here it is.



And in case you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the scene from the episode that will probably be stuck in my head for the rest of time.

Obscure, right?!?

A Frog and his Banjo

Kermit the Frog is incredibly difficult to draw. At least for me, that is. Like most of the Muppets, most of their emotion comes from the performance of the puppeteers. When drawing a still form of the characters, I find you have to figure out what features of theirs you can change and exaggerate without taking away what makes them... THEM. I guess the same goes for drawing caricatures of real people as well.

With Kermit, it's his eyes. They give me the hardest time. You can't really change them in any way, or he ceases to look like Kermit. But when I draw them, he always comes across so stiff and lifeless. So I try to exaggerate the rest of him as much as I can.

I scribbled through several attempts until I made this one. It's not perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with it overall. And after the frustration of drawing him, it was a lot of fun to color.

Love Birds

Here is an exact depiction of my wife and I first meeting. This is precisely how it went down. No exaggerations... well, apart from the fact that we're not actually birds. We're humans. Also, we didn't so much meet on a small tree branch as we did... at our workplace.

On second thought... this is just a drawing of two birds. Nothing more.

So yeah. Enjoy the birds. I love my wife. Have a nice day.

And on a side note, thanks to everyone for all the awesome extra comments, likes, and watch-notificationings as of lately. I'm glad so many of you enjoy what you see. I'll be doing my best to keep your interest.

Happy Star Wars Day!

It's May the Fourth! The day we celebrate Jedi with speech impediments!

Here's a little quickie with one of the true masters of speech impediments, Sylvester, showing his support for that galaxy far, far away.

"Live long and proTHper, kidTH!" ...Yeah. Sylvester never was really up on his sci-fi jargon.

Penguin Suits - April O'Neil