Since Sarasota

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Perverts

Tonal Studies

Occasionally I try to draw without lines, to varying levels of success.

Tiananmen Square Op-Ed

Here's an Op-Ed piece that appears on today's NYTimes Op-Ed page. Read the article here. AD Brian Rea.

Failed Comic Game

So Sam and I were going to play a game where I drew the panels and he filled in the word balloons. But then I did this and it just seemed better left ambiguous. Click for a larger version.

Dinnertime

Procrastination Sketch: Figures 2

Procrastination Sketch: Figures

Some of you might be able to tell that I was watching Whisper of the Heart while doing this. But, uh, not from the penis-guy. Because Studio Ghibli doesn't roll that way. But anyway, I love that movie and you should see it.

Procrastination Sketch: Tones

Procrastination Sketch: Greeks & Romans

Bats

For the Boston Globe, AD Greg Klee. Bats have weird proportions.

NYC Thoughts

I just flipped through this slideshow of photographer Jill Freedman's work on the NYTimes site. I love these old photos of the city and it makes me wonder, as a relative newcomer, if I would have been able to hack the NYC of the 70s and 80s.



Accompanying article.

Fashionistas

Above, a German.

Hey hey, so I know I was just away and not posting, but guess what! I'm going away AGAIN. But on a real vacation this time! To Berlin! 

I will be back on April 20th. Maybe by that point I will have some drawings of more factually accurate Germans. 

Enjoy springtime!

Hair Cuts + Sperm Whales

Parlour Games

Telephone Doodle

People Dancing

More mechanical pencil drawings.

I thought this was appropriate because we just watched Footloose with Jessica tonight. To reiterate a post from a few days ago: I like my entertainment light. EXTREMELY light.

Mechanical Pencil Drawings

I used to draw all the time with a mechanical pencil when I was in school. Then I stopped.

More Horses, More Faces

Face to Face

Yesterday during our class at Parsons, we spoke about "Visual Language" (which I think is a less oppressive word than "Style"). And how it is our duty (and fate!) to explore our own languages thoroughly throughout our entire lives, not just as students.

Also, there is the problem of always drawing the same face (usually a variant of our own? I for example, actually have a problem drawing eyelids, not being a proprietor of any myself). I try to break away, as the above illustrates: usually with only minimal success.

Horse Show

Meds

I Only Watch Horrible 1980s Movies

Yeah, this is 80s-kid pap. But we watched The Wizard yesterday and it was pretty awesome. Or was it awesome because I remembered it to be awesome when I was 9? Who can say.

And then I got depressed when I realized most of the students in my class at Parsons were born the same year The Wizard was released.

Also, Mecha Bart Simpson:

Gretel drinks out of mugs

"Quiet, I'm Thinking!"

Snowy Friday

This has got to be the most disgustingly charming thing I've drawn in a long time. Oh well. If you're in NY now, you'll understand.

ARE you in NY? Are you going to the Society of Illustrators opening tonight? I might see you there.

Skating Rink

Strange man and his son

Gorillas 2

Rainy Days

More Tanuki

More Tanuki sketches. I'm contributing this character to the new volume of the BEASTS! book. Tanuki are a trickster in Japanese folklore and have the most amusing ability to enlarge their scrotums. Thus expanded, the scrotum becomes useful for a variety of functions such as fishing and serving as a picnic blanket or store sign. Don't believe me?

Gorillas

YOU GUYS!! Gorillas are so fun to draw. I had no idea... could it be that I've never drawn one before? They have this top-heavy proportion that is very malleable and interesting. Their lines are very pleasing. Maybe my new thing will be to substitute gorillas for humans in all my illustrations. 2008 is the Year of the Gorilla.

Tanuki Sketches

But what is a Tanuki?

Josephine

Britney Spears

Visionary

Sam Weber, inventor of the "Weird Stuff Coming Out of Peoples' Mouths" Style.

[Sam's musical pick: "The Assassination of Jesse James" Soundtrack]

NC-17

Since I'm posting rude drawings today, might as well share this one too... click here for the full version, which I contributed to Rabid Rabbit's pornogrpahy comics mini-anthology. Unfortunately when they ran it, they cropped out "Picasso's Erotic Etchings", which I thought was the funniest part of the drawing.

Leg Alphabet

White on Black

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte

Man

... or Rasputin?

The Back of a Lady

Discussion

Dance Party

Personal Note

In the New Year, I will be teaching at Parsons (The New School)! Visit the Illustration Department blog. Yay!

Variations on a Rum Ball

Hope you are all having a happy holiday. Here is a picture of some rum balls I had at a Christmas Party last week.

May Kasahara

The Sketchbook is feeling pretty rejected these days. The run up to Christmas is always crazy, with everyone trying to file their issues and projects before the holidays.

Japanese Masks and Robots

Research Sketches for a current project.

Europeans

Dad's Birthday

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7-11 across from Nickle Jr. High

Stupidity with Typography

Union Square thoughts. I really hate to be NY-centric, but I don't have thoughts or opinions about anything universal... just annoyances with the local.

Blossom Hat

Oh my goodness, this came dangerously close to one of those worshipful "Asian goddesses" drawings that are way way too prevalent these days (sorry guys, but it's true).

Watching

Sports in Brooklyn: 5

Happy Accident

Scrap paper.

Master of None