“Pass! The cranberry sauce, we’re havin’ mashed potatoes! Thank you for lovin’ me! Thank you for bein’ there! The world is thankin’…we’re all thankin’ you!” This song from Bob’s burgers has been stuck in my head for days. This is my pie turkey. Happy thanksgiving! Two months later.
I’m a little wary of showing in-progress client work, but I am pretty excited by this one and I’d like to document it. This is just a concept, but so far, this is my favorite of the mess of sketches and ideas I have.
Nothing fancy.
Running on the treadmill last night, I started fantasizing about spies/assassins and other tough women in comics. I played through action scenes in my head and typical body types and costumes for ladies. (Ugh).
I decided sneakers are better than boots or high heels for running (chasing/fleeing) purposes, but if I were a superhero, I wouldn’t wear a leather jacket or anything because I’m a vegetarian. That struck me as funny—an assassin/spy/whatever with no qualms about killing people, but won’t kill an animal? Hm! This scene popped in my head and I knew I wanted to illustrate it. This is just a quick pencil sketch, but I imagine her with red or purple hair!
One of the photos we got from a client today reminded me of someone(s)…so I had some fun. My boss was crying with laughter.
30-60 second little lion doodle. I might elaborate on this later. I attended a lecture given by Vin Burnam at the Toledo Museum of Art on Sunday. One of her work examples included an animatronic Aslan for BBC’s Chronicles of Narnia, so perhaps that is where my inspiration for this came from. (Or I just like kitty cats.)
I have a turkey illustration I need to do as well! I sketched out my idea for that, but I need to execute it (I am thinking watercolor and/or pastel). It would make a good Thanksgiving card, but do people send those? (I don’t even send Christmas cards)!
Draw something! I wish I had a stylus.
I did this with dry erase markers on our fridge whiteboard. The “I love you” is something from an old note that I kept.
All artists have done at least 100 drawings of people with one eye out of laziness.
This is pretty old (months ago). When I was little I liked drawing food. I guess I still do! I think it is a nice break from the faces I always draw.
