Jackalopes

Some jackalopes fighting over a lady jackalope. This took about and hour and a half. With my new Rapidograph pens, which I am loving.

Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare

There's a picture book series by a guy named David Cory titled Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare. It was written in 1922, when things were pretty and you could escape from bad things without too much trouble, though sometimes a sprinkle of something enchanting was necessary. I suppose this drawing could be called fan art.

Uncle John Hare begins a journey with Little Jack Rabbit in the magic auto.

I drew this last night in the dark. There was a little lamp beside me. Curry, our twenty pound calico, was sitting on my laptop next to me, and Blue, our clown dog, kept running upstairs to go to bed, and then running back down to see why we hadn't gone up there yet. Well, Jim wasn't home, so we just don't sleep then. Blue will figure it out. She's no dummy, but she thinks very differently than the rest of us.

Wario Away!

Current theme is Vehicles. I always picked Wario when we played Mario Kart on the N64 when I was little.

Wedding Celebration Draw Offs

Here's my contribution to the Draw Offs from Anita's wedding celebration. These were seriously so much fun.

A quote from work: "Butterflies are the badgers of the sky."

Elephant on a unicycle

Epic Unicorns

Platypus the size of Godzilla destroying a city

 

Rabid caterpillar attacking puppies (Note that I told them they might hate me after this drawing.)

T-Rex in the rain

Fireside Sketches

Saturday, we went to Anita's to get some prints of a comic and bind a different comic. But the printer was not working so we didn't get to do any of that. So after a delicious BBQ chicken dinner, we had Abe and Jim give us drawing suggestions while we sat at a fire outside. So here's what we did. I used a brush pen and did not pencil first! That's very rare for me. I pencil before everything. But this was a really fun exercise.

Top is Despair and Golfing. From Abe. Then a creature coming out of fruit. Jim's idea, I think.

Then Abe suggested a platypus playing a sport. I could only think of cricket. That's the only sport a platypus would play, right? I have a pretty good memory of what a platypus looks like because Abe asks me to draw them all the time. Then Anita suggested their dog, Blue. She was staring at our dogs in our car.

Then I couldn't come up with anything. So Abe suggested a monster using the space needle as a tooth pick.
I am pleased with all of these.

Maurice Sendak

Took a while, but I finally drew Maurice Sendak. I think we were both influenced by his amazing books, so this week we are going to try to post drawings of the late, great Sendak. If Anita's is better than this, I will have to do another.

Maurice Sendak, a Quick Note

One of the most inspiring children's book illustrators is Maurice Sendak.

Maurice Sendak enjoyed large dogs.

It's always sad to hear of passing of a person whose work is influential to so many people, especially someone like Mr. Sendak. So, here's to you, Maurice: last night's 30-minutes-or-less drawing. 

--Anita