Late Night Sketches

These are two quick sketches I made last night, late, just before I went to sleep. They took less than fifteen minutes, I think, and were made using a couple ball point pens, and maybe a pencil. The pens run out of ink. I grab another one. We have enough ball point pens in the house to last us the rest of our lives. Jim picked a lot of them up on campus, and brought them home, one at a time. But a pencil is always good, right down to the nubs. If the tip breaks and I don't have a sharpener near, the wood can always be peeled back to expose some more graphite. Whatever works.

Hands Down

The first drawing is of the type that just falls out of my head while listening to the sound of pen against paper. Who knows where they come from or where they'll go. The little rabbits? I guess they are rough character sketches for a story I might do. The story has them scared quite often, which is normal for a rabbit, I'd guess.

Scared Rabbits

After I finished these two drawings, I fell asleep. They are like bedtime stories, but different. I can see that they could use some work on a couple of things, though I know I could do much worse if I put my mind to it.

---Anita

Nadine Watercolor Test

A test painting I did of Nadine for Cob. I love everything but the dress. She looks a bit like a line backer. Back to the dress drawing board.

Cob

Some practice heads for a comic I am working on. These are the main characters, Nadine and Cob. This is one of my longer stories, working title Cob. I will feature sketches for the story here.
Cob heads - probably sticking with the first one.

 Nadine practice heads - trying to pick a hair style. Probably going with the one on the right of the second row.

Art Show and Workshop at Egress Studio in Bellingham

The first, possibly annual, show of art work by 

Angela Boyle & Anita K. Boyle

in ink, paint and more at Egress Studio.

If you can't read the flyer, here's what it says:

It’s Open Studio Day at 

— Egress Studio —

5581 Noon Road, Bellingham WA

Saturday, November 17^th from 1pm to 7pm

& a Workshop—Super Collaborators: the Making of Comics

Sunday, November 18, 10am to 3pm, $35

For more information, call 360-398-7870 or 425-773-3099

We hope you will be there!

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.