EIGHTY FIVE

Drawing 85: This is my manager, Dustin. He found my drawings blog, and made a request for me to draw him.

This doesn't mean I'll draw you...unless I think you're characterable. (Dustin is an easy characterable person.)

EIGHTY FOUR

Drawing 84: I know my numbers are off, but according to my blog they're right. Now I have to go back and find where I screwed up to fix it all. So, this is drawing 84.

EIGHTY THREE

Drawing 83: I like this guy.

EIGHTY ONE

Drawing 81: This is similar to drawings of past. I think this is an abstraction of my first instinct when I draw a face. I'm generally inclined to draw Homer Simpson. Although the intention of drawing him didn't exist during the process, it certainly reared it's ugly head in the end. I hope I break past that phase. I've been doing that for the last 10 years.

EIGHTY

Day 80: It's time to get this blog back on track. With school and life getting in the way, I was upset with myself for falling behind way bad. Hopefully, I'll trend towards changing that. I miss my daily drawings, and hopefully you did too. I will play catch up, so stay tuned for the back issues. It's not that I haven't been doodling, but pen and paper is so unconventional for blog posts.

This is a disrupted business man. He started out very prim and proper, and went wretched as the music I was listening to progressively got louder and faster. (Mogwai's "I'm Jim Morrison I'm Dead") It's reflective upon my urge to quit my day job of selling cell phones and being more myself by doing artwork. I'm really starting to hate my job. My ideal is to eventually be an art director for a major ad firm, or even OWN an ad firm.

Yes, the show "Ad Men" is in my Netflix queue. I haven't seen any episodes yet, but I'm sure they'll be informative and interesting.

SEVENTY NINE

Day 79: Here's Nixon.

SEVENTY EIGHT

Day 78: This is a rendering of Alice, from the Adult Swim tv show, SUPERJAIL!. I drew it from memory, because there doesn't seem to be any pictures of Alice on google's image search.

Superjail! is described as "Itchy and Scratchy go to jail." It's an amusing show, because it's all animated by hand in America. It's got a simplistic and organic feel, and most of the people on the show used to work for Mike Judge.

Check it out sometime, but don't be upset because it's ultraviolent.

SEVENTY SEVEN

Day 77: This is my Dad, Wes Clark. He predicted I would draw him into this blog someday, and here he is.

Funnily enough, I asked my friend Sean Lacey what celebrity to draw, and he said, "John Malkovich". So I started to, but it ended up my Father......So here he is, for what it's worth.

SEVENTY SIX

Day 76: Jimi Hendrix is quite possibly the greatest self taught rock guitarist, ever. This is a tidbit that is hardly ever argued. I can't play like Jimi, but I'd give all my drawing abilities to master his style. He's a part of the "forever 27" crew.

SEVENTY FIVE

Day 75: Comment who you think this looks like, and I'll pick the best answer.

SEVENTY FOUR

Day 74: I really don't have much else to say, other than I'm trying different techniques.

SEVENTY THREE

Day 73: Hahhahaa..

SEVENTY TWO

Day 72: It had to happen, eventually. The king of my cartoon capabilities. It's a easy crowd pleaser. It's also the basis on which I've learned how to cartoon.

SEVENTY ONE

Day 71: Lesson in lines and monotones.

SEVENTY

Day 70: My sister married a red headed kid. This is my prediction of their first son.

SIXTY NINE

Day 69: Me, as I appear today.

SIXTY EIGHT

Day 68: I've been obsessed with drawing myself as of late.

SIXTY SEVEN

Day 67: Just a trace of my face.

I can curl my tongue three ways. And when it's curled, I can make the middle part go in and out. It's an odd talent, but it be my talent.

SIXTY SIX

Day 66: I know I'm technically way behind. I will make up all the days pretty soon, hopefully with work that beats the quality of today's piece. Starting school and work again really threw off my groove, but I'm organized now.

This is just an abstract odd piece, utilizing odd tools built into adobe illustrator.

SIXTY FIVE

Day 65: Lines and such.

SIXTY FOUR

Day 64: What if you could smear pixels on a pen tablet? Maybe this.

SIXTY THREE

Day 63: Sooner or later, I'd get around to the Dark Knight. Batman has been a solid favourite my entire life, partly due to the series "Batman: The Animated Series", which is still to this day the best incarnation of the franchise on film. End of story, no arguments. Sure, the Dark Knight was a good movie, but it's not a solid Batman. I don't think they can make a Batman movie to please my idea of Batman.

This sketch isn't as solid as I could create, but I didn't feel like spending hours on a Batman face today. Maybe sometime in the future.

SIXTY TWO

Day 62: Inspired directly from Winsor McKay's "Little Nemo" cartoon strips from 1905 - 1911. Winsor McKay is the godfather of animation. He was able to produce fabulous animated features from hand, without the use of a light table or clear paper. He was a genius, and is worth studying.

SIXTY ONE

Day 61: This guy's inspired by the fat business man in the Radiohead "Paranoid Andriod" music video. Eventually the guy is seen in a black metal studded thong.....it's a good video to say the least.

SIXTY

Day 60: This belongs in the "Mutts" cartoon. Charles Schulz even says this series is "one of best comic strips of all time."

FIFTY NINE

Day 59: I'm slowly but surely starting to get a hold of my personal colour wheel. Colours that balance and compliment one another. I'm not sure of the technical term, which I studied at one point in time, but these colours seem to blend fairly well. Too bad I prefer black and white artwork.

Inspired subconsciously by Popeye's Father, Pappy.

FIFTY EIGHT

Day 58: Another experiment in brushes. I hope all this experimenting leads up to one giant million brushed face.

Here's yet another failed attempt at "woman".

FIFTY SEVEN

Day 57: I drew a line and went with it. It ends up looking like a really stylized Archie...or Jimmy Olsen. (That Jimmy Olsen reference sure does remind me of something.)

FIFTY SIX

Day 56: Marilyn Manson?

FIFTY FIVE

Day 55: If I was a character on the Johnny Quest show, here's a quick composite sketch of what I'd probably look like.

FIFTY FOUR

Day 54: It's amazing what Illustrator is capable of doing with the stroke of a pen tablet.

FIFTY THREE

Day 53: Watercolour brushes are neat.

FIFTY TWO

Day 52: Discovered a whole library of Illustrator brushes to play with.

FIFTY ONE

Day 51: Another reason I don't draw women on a regular basis.

FIFTY

Day 50: Quote the raven, "Nevermore."

FORTY NINE

Day 49: Self portrait #2,746

FOURTY EIGHT

Day 48: This guy is a nerd, geek, dweeb, all around dork. He looks great. The mouth took me awhile, not that it was difficult to draw, but I couldn't settle on a mouth to keep. The original mouth was more elaborate, but I've done it so many times before that I decided on this simple answer. Enjoy.

FOURTY SEVEN

Day 47: I'll express inspiration from Stanley Donwood yet again for this image, that is almost lifted from Thom Yorke's "The Eraser" album cover. I still believe it's one of the best cover's I've ever witnessed. I really wish I could afford the $400 bucks to get a signed print of it, but I guess some luxuries will come later in life.

FOURTY SIX

Day 46: My attempt at a more realistic cartoon. Someday I'll draw something I'm really proud of, but for now you'll just have to deal with what I'm doing. I have a hard time sitting down for hours and drawing. I have to spend at least an hour on faces if I want to produce anything worthwhile. This past month has been a difficult month, to say the least.

FOURTY FIVE

Day 45: Line man.

FOURTY FOUR

Day 44: Here's a curveball for you. I don't personally know exactly what it meant, so here it is, for what it's worth. I can tell you I really like the Easter Island statues, and it's inspired some work before. I've added the red because it compliments the black so very perfectly.

FORTY THREE

Day 43: Scratch face. Sometimes freehand sketching returns decent imagery.

FORTY TWO

Day 42: Fat pen style.

FORTY ONE

Day 41: Looks like a Muppet. I'm experimenting with the other brushes in Illustrator. This is a good one.

FOURTY

Day 40: I like that brush.

THIRTY NINE

Day 39: I recently heard an old lady tell Gene Simmons that she knew he was Jewish by the size of that "hook". (His nose.) That made me laugh. Here's a guy with a hook.

THIRTY EIGHT

Day 38: Here's my second attempt at a girl. I don't like drawing girls.

THIRTY SEVEN

Day 37: Frankenstein, or an "E"? You decide.

THIRTY SIX

Day 36: Coulrophobia: The Fear of Clowns. With films like "IT" and "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", it's hard growing up not being freaked out by clowns. I think people who dress as clowns are mentally handicapped. Can we just forget about clowns? Yes, I'm even willing to have Krusty killed off in a nation-wide effort to delete clowns from our memories.

I'm not that scared of them, I actually find it very demeaning to the clown, and the beholder.

THIRTY FIVE

Day 35: As some of you know, I'm way behind. Time to turn out some faces.

This looks like a Calvin and Hobbes face, I think Calvin had a gym teacher that resembled this guy.