A new page o' doodles

Here's a new page of doodles. Rather than gangposting a whole bunch at once I'm going to try to the post them somewhat closer tp when I actually draw them.

For those of you playing along at home, this is a page from my Moleskine A4 Folio Sketchbook drawn with a medium nib Faber-Castell Pitt artist pen (sanguine 188).

"Klaus Nomi Eats a Cupcake" cartoon

Sometimes you just want to to draw Klaus Nomi eating a cupcake. Today was one of those days, so here it is.

Doodles! Doodles! Doodles! Yup....some more doodles.

Here are a few pages of doodles and cartoons from my Moleskine Folio A4 sketchbook.

So that's them doodles. Y'all come back now, ya' hear?

My first two attempts at cartooning with acrylic paints

I've been drawing as long as I can remember, but I've never ventured far from pens and markers. I only dipped my toe into colored markers a few times in the past year or so, so almost everything I've ever drawn has been with a black marker or pen on a sketchbook page or piece of paper. To mix things up my wife and I signed up for an Acrylic Class at the Elmhurst Art Museum. We did a still life at the first class, which was the first time I've touched a paintbrush since grade school. It was quite satisfying to actually paint something, especially something serious since even when I set out to make a more traditional drawing it tends to end up turning into a cartoon.

But I was anxious to see if I could use acrylics to do something goofier and more fun in a style similar to my doodles. Last night I sat at the dining room and knocked out these two cartoon paintings. To ease into it I started out with some familiar. Both of these are based on reoccurring doodles in my repertoire. I'm still trying to get comfortable with using brushes, mixing colors, etc, but I had a lot of fun and am happy with how they turned out. Especially since this is only my 2nd and 3rd times putting brush to canvas.

Record Eating Rabbit - Acrylic on 6" x 6" canvas panel

Push Fido Push - Acrylic on 6" x 6" canvas panel