Spaghetti

Hi. I had an idea to take folk tales and integrate spaghetti in creepy ways. The first idea was Rapunzel. Her hair was spaghetti and her family would sit down to dinner each night and serve out plates of meat balls in marinara sauce as her hair would grow through all the plates and they would eat it. They had to do this every evening or her hair/spaghetti would overwhelm them all. It was a miserable prison of an existence. This picture above I drew on the airplane coming back from Africa back last March. It is the tale of the tortoise and the hare I think you can guess what happens next.

Alcohol

This is a mockup of a logo for a fake pharmacological advertisement where the punchline is that the drug is alcohol. I believe it will be shown this Sunday at sketchfest in Chicago IL by Pat Reidy.

a day at the beach

sketch - man on train with toothpick

transvestite pencil

This male pencil took his buddies, frog and lamp, to help him pick out a new bathing suit.

amorphous green blob

I thought it would be neat to do a bunch of drawings where you replaced color with patterns. Slowly through looking at many of these drawing you would learn to see the patterns as the colors they represented and enjoy them as such. A better way to acclimate yourself to this system would be to draw things that are known for being certain colors like yellow suns and red fire hydrants. This blob doesn't really train your eye to see this pattern as green very much I more picked its shape to illustrate shading within the patterns.

tea cup face lady

Desert

Here is a drawing I did outside of Dallas when I was there for a job. The desert did not look at all like this.

new york hotdog vendor

Guy on Train: sketch

I have definitely been drawing every day for a few months now. I just haven't gotten in the habit of putting it up here. Plus sometimes it isn't very good. Starting now I'm going to try to put more of my daily sketches up. I drew a few people on the train. If I draw them in my perforated windwill skectchbook I will tear it out and give it to them just for fun even if it isn't much of a likeness of them. This one I drew in a non perforated book. This guy was really tall and quite a character. He was wearing those Verbatim Five Fingers shoes with a suit. I wasn't in a place to judge though I was wearing my cowboy boots.
I was on the train because I am doing some freelance animation down at 15 letters. Tons of fun. Things are going really well.

Cellphone

Paradox

speech bubbles

I was thinking about how interesting it was that different lines and symbols could be used within comics and cartoons to represent things that it would otherwise be difficult to convey. Some examples are, A circular bubble to show what someone is saying. A cloud-like thought bubble to show what they are thinking. Wavy lines over something to show it has an odor. Straight lines behind something to show it is going fast. etc. I was wondering how hard it would be and over what period of time it would take to implant new comic features into society. I have some ideas for a few this is just one, the aural bubble showing what people are hearing. The actual design of it needs works but I like the idea at its core.

Billboard

Rainy Days, Rainy Days

Hey. It's nice when it rains because it is like a shower for the city. Imagine trying to get the amount of washing done in the city that the rain accomplishes it would be really expensive. It is like putting Chicago in a giant dishwasher.
It would be great if we created more ways to take advantage of the amazing power of the rain and all that free water. Also it would be cool if the city was designed to change the functionality of the public areas when it rained. The streets could be canals and the parks could be ponds and the building tops could be swimming pools.