Watercolour of a Howard Cosell-kind of guy by me, with blacks by Rick. Well, this is the first of my Friday evenings with friends at the bar drawing a lot of stuff to be recorded on this blog. To follow the history of how “Gagnon Fridays” turned out (the name less accurate now that Marr […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches, watercolour
Oh, to be back in the old days, when men were men and women were modest, and you could be carried off at a moment’s notice by scarlet fever, or any number of ghastly diseases.
Tags: black and white, sketches, wash
Wow. That was heavy, because I’ve been doing the blog for four years, and what do I get when I think everything is set up right? The domain name is attached to a spam blog. I wrote a letter to my domain seller’s support, and immediately after, either by design or coincidence, the wordpress blog […]
Tags: black and white, cats, pencil, sketches
Listening to that, this morning, by Hector Berlioz. It has a nice musical guillotining scene. Below, I drew last night, while listening to a story on the radio about a man whose grandma was in the jungle with Che and Castro during the fight for the Cuban revolution. Still haven’t sorted out the blogs, so […]
Tags: black and white, sketches
Durn. My normal blog is working again, though I’d like to explore and learn more about the mechanics behind this one. Still haven’t been able to migrate the four years worth of Utopia Moment posts over to here, even though it’s supposed to be possible. Maybe I’ll just put a note on the old one […]
Tags: black and white, sketches
Trying to draw these figures with traditional underdrawing, and starting with ‘lines of action’ and all the things drawing manuals tell you to do. The girl looks nice, while the guy looks like the usual type of person I draw. Put in the Carrie-like background to set them off. That’s a lot of little lines!
Tags: black and white, sketches
Nothing much, a couple of quick drawings of women. The regular site still is down, but I haven’t learned how to do much with this one. Will fool with it. I suppose I can’t break it too badly.
Tags: black and white, colour, sketches, watercolour
Drat. The blog on blogger is gone again. So here’s today’s sketch: a cowboy parking, and Miss Precious Perfect & friend.
Tags: black and white, cats, sketches
That was traumatic. Blogger was down over Christmas, so I and a lot of other people couldn’t post over that time. What a lot of cry-babies! Still, the frustration expressed shows how much these web diaries have become habits. Because I wasn’t doing much for Christmas, it got me into setting up this WordPress blog, […]
Tags: black and white, cats, comics
Not too happy with doing this, but if I learn about it, I’ll be happy. This picture was based on a glimpse I had of the spine of the Penguin Classics edition of The Pickwick Papers. He’s riding th top of a coach in the original illustration, which I assume is by Cruikshank.
Tags: black and white, sketches