Category: sketchbook
I was in therapy group the other day, learning about self compassion and perfectionism, when I thought of this cartoon. If you’re ever berating yourself for not being what you’re Supposed To Be, remember the underlying absurdity of extreme expectations. We should try to do better by ourselves and each other, but forgiveness and understanding … Read More “Digital Sketchbook: Self Compassion” »
In lieu of Fetch, here is something I dashed off while I was taking a week off. Wherein I obviously watched a lot of Star Trek.New Fetch page coming next week.
Listening to Blind Lemon Jefferson a lot lately, I recently learned he died on this day 90 years ago, so I thought I would draw a tribute to him. Jefferson was a pioneer of the Texas blues, but he seemed to draw in a variety of styles of country and the blues into his repertoire … Read More “Digital Sketchbook: Blind Lemon Jefferson” »
The new Joker movie looks so deep. A meditation on how mental illness causes mass violence and not, say, misogyny or racism or antisemitism combined with easy access to rapid fire guns. Just what we need.
A digital sketch I did last month as a warm up exercise relied on an old pic of the late great Marc Bolan, founder of T. Rex. I think this is on the cover of one of his albums. He was an odd, inventive musician with deliberately silly lines like “On a mountain range, I’m … Read More “Digital Sketchbook: Marc Bolan” »
Last year I borrowed a Cintiq from my friend Barry Deutsch and started learning how to use it. One of the exercises I assigned myself was to ink and color in Photoshop a sketch drawn in pencil. I chose James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, because at the time I was reading Ulysses and had watched … Read More “Caricature: Joyce and Beckett” »
Here is a progression of sketches of Gogol as I study his face and head toward the caricature I am aiming for. I am closer, but still not quite there yet. Still, I like these. The main challenge was his hair. Gogol was quite the dandy, and had really gorgeous hair that he seems to … Read More “Sketchbook: Gogol” »
The other day I read a blog post about a Tumblr-based controversy involving comics by a friend of mine (whose name I’ll leave anonymous to protect them from further abuse.) I am on Tumblr frequently, but I follow friends, comics, artists, some politics, various geekery, so I somehow missed this debate over my friend’s work. … Read More “Sketchbook: Tumblr Corgi” »