tears of better

well, it's been a long time

2011-08-02T11:16:00.005-04:00

i'm just that damn lazy, and bummed about not having a scanner...and i have two jobs now..

right now there's a canadian in my bed and i don't want to wake him so i can't watch Star Trek right now...might as well get my fingers off their collective asses and update this beast.

WHAT'S NEW!?

well, i did a mural. that's right..it's pretty awesome too. if you're a michigander you just have to come down to the Rust Belt Market on the weekends and you can check it out in person...

i wold love to get more mural work, so spread the good word...and maybe when i grow up and get a website, yeah....fuck i gotta do that

and i've been doing conventions and crafts shows as much as the jobs will allow (not much, which is total balls...) at motor city con i met a total blast from the past that had items and a drawing that i had done at my very first convention where i had a table...total head buzz. so of course i drew him again and it was waaaay better.

6 years later...

and i have new prints

Bill is my fav but people seems to like the doctor who the best. if you're interested in any just let me know. $10 or 2 for $15

other than that i guess i've just been trying to get drawing...it's been kinda happening? not really, i'm just kinda lacking in motivation. plus i've been really not wanting to add to my pile of originals...i just don't need to have them lying around and i haven't sold any yet. it's a weird attitude i know, but i'm a weird person.

i've just been down at the belt as much as possible when i'm not working or doing bigger events, the setup is always changing, but it's nice to use real display pieces..

come check it out if you're in michigan, corner of 9 mile and woodward in ferndale!

david byrne

2011-04-08T22:44:00.001-04:00

david byrne, a photo by lesliebot on Flickr.

i drew this weeks ago and neglected to post it. i'm still waiting for my scanner to want to work again...i think it's kaput. looks like all the crafts shows i do in the next couple months will be to buy a new scanner and printer

DED done

2011-03-01T02:47:00.002-05:00

after a nice weekend of pizza and video game playing i got all caught up on DED...so unless i cant count here's the final pieces for 28 drawings(crafts/whatever) in february. i'd like to keep this momentum going...i gots comics to draw and awesome to make.

stuff and stuff

2011-02-26T02:23:00.000-05:00

jaws forever

2011-02-24T03:08:00.004-05:00

thanks to netflix i can watch Jaws and all of it's sequels as much as i want, guess what i did today....yeah but i didn't make it to Jaws: The revenge...because after the 3rd one i just wanted to watch the original again.

i'm tired

2011-02-22T00:16:00.002-05:00

seriously...i've just felt really worn out for no reason. stuff's coming soon, i was out and about all weekend so i just did some sketching and haven't gotten a real chance to paint stuff up yet. and i've been crafting, so there's that...and i hada bad night saturday after dnd

i made all these guys over the weekend

speaking of which, i finally updated my etsy shop...which is more time consuming/annoying than i remember...so i'm sure my descriptions are lame...
http://www.etsy.com/shop/lesliebot?ref=hdr

and here's the pages...

poster draft

2011-02-16T02:27:00.001-05:00

i like where this is headed, text later when things for the event solidify. thoughts?

things are done

2011-02-15T02:21:00.003-05:00

so my scarf that i have been working so hard to finish is done...i tried wearing it today bit it was too "warm" to want to keep it close to my neck. here's pictures.

done with Noro silk garden yarn using a twisted rib stitch

and now art!

owl cowl

2011-02-11T03:34:00.002-05:00

i still owe myself one more to get caught up..probably a lot more after that gross sketchbook work...buuuuttt i'm working on valentines, and i am sooo close to finishing my scarf. so here ya go

DED owl

2011-02-10T01:52:00.002-05:00

made entirely from scratch in illustrator...something i have never done before, whoopie!

groovy sktechbookin

2011-02-09T02:57:00.002-05:00

some of this is sketchbook bs...but i drew things with my hands and they are there. my scanner is still not working, because i am no good with technology. but i'll get there.

i've made a lot of progress on my scarf, which is good because today was COLD!!! productivity is productivity...onto the art!

update

2011-02-08T03:08:00.001-05:00

i haven't died or quit... stuff's coming.

i'm trying to make my scanner work and i've been obsessively knitting a cowl to try and get it done while it;s still winter.

abe's DED

2011-02-04T03:58:00.000-05:00

when i said scanner willing....

2011-02-03T03:33:00.003-05:00

...i meant it. i cannot get this damn ting to work..anyways here's a photo f what i drew today...

i was going to drunkenly fumble through a decemberists show posterafter seeing them live...but apparently people can't handle snow, ever...the show isn't even canceled so i can't get my ticket money back. damn weather pussies...we only got 6 inches...not blizzard weather at all.

BITTER

introducing DED

2011-02-02T03:32:00.002-05:00

Hello everyone, today marks the beginning of February a cold, windy month with no hope of spring and my birthday is a day or so away. i will be 27. This has always been some magical age for me so now that i'm finally there i don't really know how to feel...disappointed i guess. Nothing to show for it, no respect , no love, no website, no money, no (real) job, no ANYTHING!

I've had a new ocmputer for a month and barley lifted a finger. My drafting table and desk are covered with junk (not that that's new) and despite loving where i am living right now i've settled into a lazy and not terribly creatively productive routine.

In attempts to correct this i am starting DESIGN EVERY DAY or DED (dead) for short. Because if i don't do this i may as well be dead.

For the entire month of February I will design, draw, craft or create something to completion everyday. I'm leaving the spectrum wide open for myself so i can try and choose interesting topics that i can get done quickly, because i also have a life to live, jobs to search for and a laundry list of ongoing creative projects that cannot be done in a day.
This will keep me on my toes, make me organize my tiny space even more and try and get this blog back on track.

Scanner permitting i will post each project here at the end of each day. For me the day ends when I go to sleep so count on a lot of 2 am posts. If I go away on weekends or somehow cannot post a picture the night of (let's face it, my birthday IS coming up) I will post double/triple the next day...so by the end of this month i will have at least 28 things...HOORAY!

For today i made the first of many logos for DED, it's aqua and ochre yellow...my favs. As an extra I also complete a pinup. here ya go internet, see you tomorrow...

Big Things

2011-01-28T16:39:00.002-05:00

in less than a week i will be 27 years old. 27 and not much to show for it. i work retail for chump change, live with friends because they're cutting me a huge deal and all in all even with my new computer i just haven't been feeling very creative. i've barely drawn anything in months other than for presents and mild attempts to be happy.

NO MORE !

when i was younger, i met most of my cool hatcha illustrator friends who inspired me to not go into animation and jump headlong into illustration. Most of them were 27 so it's always been this awesome magical age to me. so starting in february there are going to be changes, daily updates and lots of stuff happening.

stay tuned viewers and thanks.

Detroit Urban Craft Fair

2010-12-05T01:22:00.003-05:00

Getting ushered into the Detroit craft community and I love it.
I had a bang up first day at DUCF, it pretty much obliterated my stock of well...everything. I sold out of Ackbar reprints, I have no more business cards, I'm down to one Lockemonster, I only have 4 owls left, one sugar skull....yeah you get the idea...things are GONE.

so THANK YOU to everyone came by today and supported!

Tonight despite paint and fatigue I am working to build at least some stock for tomorrow. sadly, all the owl shapes I had cut are all cream and beige...so maybe not the most colourful display tomorrow.

also in exciting news I just returned from a 24 hours kinkos with hot steamy new Ackbar prints. so have hope friends, it's a new day...

Sketchbook catch up

2010-10-19T00:27:00.002-04:00

yeah that's right, i have still not uploaded what i drew in the last couple week of school. not like i've been drawing a lot lately, i am a bum . i'm just in a bad way.

also, don't forget that everything that i've ever made that isn't bound in a sketchbook is for sale! i'm also taking commissions at very reasonable prices...and everyone who buys something between now and december gets entered to win a neat little price pack.

help me get a new computer so i can keep making awesome art for everyone!

Get your wallets ready...it's a SALE!

2010-10-06T23:50:00.003-04:00

so here's the skinny. I am running out of room and looking to clean house of some illustrations. I also still need a new computer and money for things so I can continue doing what I love do and better maintain this blog.

so I'm have a crazy art sale!

you see all this paper and board...this is about half of what I really have, which is good, because I'll be taking crazy cheap commissions from now until December (in case you need something rad as a Christmas gift)

Little fanart paintings:
Black and white sketches will only be $10
Full colour watercolour or gouache only $25

these can be darn near anything you want me to draw.
I will also be taking caricature commissions for larger studio pieces at reduced prices. This includes family or couple drawings, which make great gifts.

On top of all this awesome, just about everything i've drawn up to today is for sale, including pieces from my final thesis, so all the watercolour caricatures and the freakshow paintings.
if you spool through this blog and see anything you like just e- mail me about it or comment. everyone needs cool original art and i want you to have mine!

and here's some older pieces for sale to a good home

giraffe-$30

Deer-$50

Batgirl-$10

robots-$25

super ladies-$25 each w/frames

***also bonus! everyone that buys some art or commissions me for a piece will have a chance to win an extra goodie bag!

i scanned some things!

2010-09-18T16:40:00.002-04:00

not everything...there's still some sketchbook you haven't seen, and some i haven't finished....poor moleskine, i kinda forgot about you...

Much Delayed

2010-09-10T23:40:00.002-04:00

Fan expo Re-cap!

This event was GANGBUSTERS for me. Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by, said hi and supported what I do. I love to create so much, it's only ever been about making enough to continue making the things I love...and it's been hard. Not all the events are worth it. Let me tell you thought I never felt so alive then I did sitting behind that table watching things fly away from my table to happy new owners.

THANK YOU!

I've been in a rut pretty bad over the summer but this helped a bit.

To all you newcomers who I told to find my blog because I am a lame-ass without a website, welcome, thanks for seeing me at the Fan Expo and I hope you really enjoyed it as much as I did.

Friday and Saturday were crazy that started with seeing sweet old Stan Lee being wheeled by in a wheel chair before the convention opened and ended with rumours of how hideously overcrowded the damn Fan Expo staff let it get on Saturday.

My Lockemonster print got more attention than I ever thought it would. I only had 4 copies to sell (having sold 4 TOTAL between two conventions) and never thought I'd have to restock....they were all gone before the end of Friday. So at 2am I'm ordering more from Staples and begging a friend to bring them to the convention for me.
By the time they arrived to my table the Ackbar print had been sold out for over and hour....THEY SOLD OUT BY 3PM on Saturday!!! I was blown away...and felt like a fool for not ordering more, I could have sold twice as many.

Don't worry friends, as soon as I find a good printer in town I will restock and offer them online when my etsy store reopens. I was selling 8.5x11 prints at the con for easy framing, but would anyone want an 11x17 poster?

Thank you to the one guy who bought the Mermaid print. I didn't think it would sell like the other two...but i thought I would get rid of at least 5 of them. My hat off to that man, thanks for liking boobies sir.

There will definitely be more Lost and more Star Wars art in the future, so keep an eye out.
The conventon was so exhausting that I came home and went to bed for 2 days. Then I went to Maryland and drew caricatures at my cousins wedding. I just got back Tuesday and have been busting my hump to try and regain the stock I sold in prep for the Kerrytown Bookfest that I will be at all dau Sunday (the 12th) in Ann Arbor, MI....so STOP BY!

So I guess I'll stop boring you with with this non-art update. as soon as this bookfest is over I will be offering extreme prices on personal commissions and will start selling any and all art I have produced. So look through the archives and see what you might like. If it's not in a sketchbook and I still have it, it's for sale! (momma needs a new computer)

Canada Ahoy!

2010-08-23T20:48:00.002-04:00

Well in a matter of days I will be on my way to Toronto for the Fan Expo. So anyone planning to attend should check me out! I'm sharing a table with Wild Things Creations and this year we have a big end cap space so it shouldn't be hard to miss us.

Since I have about 3.6 million things to do and no money or computer to do a lot of it I have decided to not bust my ass to get a new book out for the convention. For those of you who haven't seen me since the last Fan Expo I actually have 4 books you haven't seen. On top of that I have a lot of exciting felt pins, softcover sketchbooks ,prints and some original art....I'll also be trying to do caricatures for those willing to stand and be drawn (if I have enough table space...)

here's what my work table has been looking like...just so you know

ooops, i never told you about C3

2010-07-09T15:19:00.003-04:00

C3 DRAWINGS!
i wanted to do a nice little C3 recap and post pictures and whatnot...but i went out of town right after that con so it just got away from me. Besides it being a really fantastic convention I actually got some really keen work done. it felt soooo good because i've been in such a slump....outside of the convention i'm back in it..but whatevs...

my new signage! i loooove it. hopefully before fanexpo the banner with actually be embroidered like the flags.

convention sketch. the board the dude gave me didn't support watercolour at all, so i had to do it in art stix for lack of markers. i need to draw gren arrow some more, he's a hunk. i also felt like i overcharged the guy...felt kinda bad. ah well, i needed gas money!

everyone's drawing ladies with bears, so here's something different but the same

yeah, crowning glory. as soon as i get a new computer this is going to be prints. and hopefully more star wars art to follow

jesus christ i miss having a computer

2010-07-09T14:48:00.001-04:00

these are my final second semester thesis projects. I forgot to scan them before leaving school, so unless you are in my class this is the first time anyone beside another Sheridan student or my family is seeing them

this was drawn shrtly after his Carnegie Hall mishap. goobye stage dive...we'll miss you terribly...

these were drawn with a specific double frame in mind, so that's why they're not all neatly in the same picture. george got all grey due to a horrible watercolour accident so i'm going to have to redo him at some point. not like it's going to be a chore to draw the beatles some more...

a page from my book Loving and Losing. it didn't make it in due to formatting issues. you smart people can probably figure out who it is...he's not really a possibility, but i can dream. (PS...it's not delight you retards)

Motor City and beyond

2010-05-27T00:01:00.002-04:00

Motor City was pretty rad. I had the post cone blues pretty bad for a while.

Met some cool dudes from Chicago...i was hoping they'd help make Michigan for tolerable for me, but sadly no...it's just one more person to visit that's not in Michigan. At least it's not super far.

either way. i didn't really take that many pictures like i promised. but here's a few

new zines

te newest, it's about my belly button

so for anyone living in Michigan..I will be at the Cherry Capitol Convention June 12th and 13th. this is the convention's second year and it sounds pretty great, so I'd love to see it have a great track record. everyone should come out!
I'm working on some new mini books, pins and original art for the occasion and I will be doing caricature there as well

still out of commissions

2010-05-15T20:48:00.002-04:00

Hello one and all. I'm still here.

this weekend I am at the Motor City Comic Con. I'm selling books, crafts and prints. I'm also offering Caricatures.

To anyone who picked up my card today and did not find a website...but found this blog...I AM SORRY! The website sadly cannot exist until I have a computer again...when I got the cards and postcards printed I thought this problem would be remedied a lot sooner. whoops...thanks for finding my blog (and stopping by my table at Con)

It's going pretty ok...a bit slow but fun. The post con blues are ALREADY creeping up on me. And I will try and take some photos of stuffs so I'm not always doing type only updates...

ANYWAYS I'm off to party with comic con superstars...lates yo

please hold

2010-04-26T10:33:00.003-04:00

Ok, so a little art/non-art update.

To the best of my knowledge I am now part of illustrators graduating from Sheridan. WHOO

Anyways, that explains the lack of updates...I have been pretty batshit insane. losing sleep, making sure things are done..blah blah blah.

so I'm graduated...I'm home with my parents right now...and since I'm still without a computer every kindda has to be on hold. Until I can afford to get a new one i barely have internet access let alone photo and art manipulation tools. Soooo yeah, unless somebody cares to help pay fror a new computer it might be a while until i can post here again.

Just letting you all know. Be back soon

my life is about underpants and boys

2010-04-01T01:39:00.003-04:00

i guess i forgt to scan this one from the summer. i need to get these going agian...

sketchbook roadblock

2010-03-16T01:25:00.002-04:00

so i kinda stalled out on the sketchbook for a bit...hopefully it'll flow more easily now. more than half the time i'm doing homework i wish i was just drawing in my sketchbook.

oscar talk

2010-03-11T23:04:00.003-05:00

playing off comedy and tragedy i showed Sandra Bullock with her Oscar and her Razzie (which she won the night before) she's the first to win best actress and worst actress in the same year

also receiving his first Oscar was "the dude" good job man.

thesis

2010-02-18T17:25:00.002-05:00

ahh Leslie Hall, the version of myself i should have become. The most amazing lady that i've ever seen grace the stage in gold spandex. uuuunnnnnffff

this is far too pretty, but it'll do for now. i owe myself really jacked up one in the future

i'm outta practice

2010-02-12T04:48:00.003-05:00

You know what? he rolls it up and it's just going to go down again...so let the guy have a damn smoke break.
Fuck man...LOST

And this is Damon Albarn presenting the new album to you, aren't you excited? I am

i mean, these are barley caricatures..i've lost touch.

sometimes things are wordy

2010-02-02T09:42:00.004-05:00

because sometimes i have some more to say.

This was at a Nouvelle Vague concert I went to recently...only I was there to see the opening band instead and they were met with an annoying and rude Toronto crowd...I wanted to fight everyone...not like i expected better.

short,unplanned "romantic" entanglements are ok...i guess. but there's always that little spot where you know you're making a bad decision

more more sketchbook

2010-01-27T14:15:00.000-05:00

yeah, maybe i suck at drawing type but i'm gonna keep on going.

moleskine

2010-01-20T23:35:00.004-05:00

just doodles and personal stuff and trying to draw type. having fun with the sketchbook. i think i want to do a set of anti motivational cards because sometimes everything is not alright. maybe....still have to get more missed connections. i suck

thesis pieces

2009-12-17T21:10:00.003-05:00

serpentina of the coney island sideshow. this piece is kinda crappy but i thought i'd post it any ways

heather holiday. the final piece for the semester. i'm pretty happy with it

lots of things for you (just for you)

2009-12-12T01:08:00.002-05:00

yeah here's a big moleskine dump, with my computer out of business right now it's not as easy to scan things. so whoo.. here ya go.

Deja Vu

2009-12-01T03:18:00.002-05:00

An assignment for my narrative class where we did a story based on the idea of deja vu...i really like this class because i just get to draw personal comics like i do all the time anyways. i'm totally winning the class!

More stuff

2009-11-28T01:45:00.002-05:00

Presenting for his pleasure...The Black Scorpion (once again I'm going to redo it...but here's a mediocre scan of the piece of finished)

school stuffs

2009-11-24T22:51:00.004-05:00

These pieces are for my thesis...which always sounds dumb when I explain it, but I'm doing portraiture of real people i "know" that normal people would consider freaks..but to me these people are amazing and anything but. So i'm portraying them in everyday backgrounds to take the theatrics out of their freakiness, because they're just people ya know? most of them are current members of the Coney Island Sideshow..along with a couple of burlesque friends of mine. There was going to be a second part where I drew normal people in the sideshow atmosphere, but both my teacher and i decided that it was better just to keep the focus on the freaks. This is new for me and i'm trying to be awesome...but it's not working very well

Bambi Galore
Donny Vomit

I'm going to steam ahead and do 5...get critiqued and then completely redo them...but i plan on preserving the pieces i have with maybe a tweak here and there.

i need to stop being afraid of success and be a fantastical failure.

stuff stuff

2009-11-24T01:28:00.003-05:00

Here's a nonsense Christmas card i whipped up for school for them to sell.
these are donations to OCAD's Whodunit sale. all pieces are the same size and you can buy anything for $75. this is something Sheridan should have been doing for years...but they're kinda slow sometimes. i still don't know if my pieces sold, but the sales over so i can post these saying i did them

moleskin and school things

2009-11-18T23:54:00.003-05:00

these are roughs for a school thing that will be used for the grad show. can you tell they're and @ sign?

Pekar Project

2009-10-19T20:55:00.003-04:00

This is coming a bit late because I wasn't allowed to post until it was up on the site...then i forgot...BUT it's up now!

After being prompted by James Jajac I drew up this Harvey head in honor or Harvey Pekar's 70th birthday. There's lots of fantastic examples on the site from James, Jim Mahfood, Dean Haspiel, Micheal Fiffe, Jefferey Brown and bunches of others. The goal was 70, but Jeff Newelt (Jahfurry) has something like 90 now...it's so awesome, go check them out.

http://www.smithmag.net/pekarproject/harveyheads/

getting back to my old self

2009-10-11T19:10:00.003-04:00

by which i mean drawing sad things about boys pretty much all the time

nuit blanche (white night) is this thing in toronto that bring contemporary and performance art to the masses of toronto. the city (in theory) stays open all night long for this big giant art party where you stay out all night. it's cool to see all those people out walking around at 4 am. but yeah, i always start the night with such high hopes and end up feeling really annoyed or lonely or whatever.

seeing john never helps...

my amazing business teacher and friend, kathryn adams, got gary taxali to come talk to my class about copyright and protecting our work. it was awesome.

yup

pages

2009-09-30T01:55:00.002-04:00

since the 9th i've been doing a drawing a day of what i wear. it's a dumb little ting to draw everyday, but there's a group on flickr where everyone's doing it. i'd like to see more artists i know doing it.
check it out here
http://www.flickr.com/groups/whatiworetodaydrawings/pool/

more moleskin

2009-09-27T21:25:00.002-04:00

illustration

2009-09-24T22:35:00.000-04:00

i keep a sloppy desk. do not envy me!

a couple of pages

2009-09-23T20:51:00.002-04:00

more moleskin. i've been knitting in class instead of drawing. whoops.

this one was a journal style page for class. we had to journal a trip. i didn't end up going into the city, so i did a trip to the bathroom, cause i'm hilarious

moleskin

2009-09-15T00:22:00.002-04:00

for two years in a row a teacher and friend has gotten me a small moleskin for christmas. i've never really used them except to jot down notes and i always felt really bad about it. Since i finsihed my last sketchbook and haven't bound another on i have actually been doodling in one. here ya go....

these are doodles from the 2009 fan expo

seriously, my boobs knocked over everything

from school

phew: finally

2009-08-03T22:36:00.003-04:00

these all scanned super dark for some reason. i tried to correct them in photoshop...but you get the idea.

Anderson Cooper, the silver fox

and some sketcbook pages.

yeah yeah boys

2009-07-01T00:34:00.001-04:00

dr. skethcy's and whatnot

2009-06-23T15:35:00.002-04:00

so a couple weeks ago i went to my first ever Dr. sketchy's sessions (sad, i know, but the one in Toronto is monday night...so not good for me at all)

anyways...here are the ones worth posting

and some other sketches, including the first missed connection from richmond!

Art Challenge results

2009-06-12T10:07:00.002-04:00

about a week ago corey was all excited with this idea. Pretty much she wanted us to run around picking out art supplies that the other person would have to use to make something that night.
we timed it so that we only had about three minutes to grab stuff off the walls, it was frantic and silly.

i didn't take a picture of what she gave me, but it was a bag full of retardedly pink things...so this is what i came up with

sketch dump Pfffttt

2009-06-09T18:42:00.003-04:00

self portrait studies

2009-05-10T23:58:00.002-04:00

timed media studies i did for a project. each one was done in under 15 minutes

schoolwork

2009-05-08T02:41:00.002-04:00

These are projects i did this semester in my illustration class

Recipe. i chose heartbreak. shocker.

based on a Russian scam e-mail i found

self directed project.

branding project for the Toronto Bike Share program

stuff

2009-04-13T19:59:00.001-04:00

i need to see more hot boys

2009-04-03T02:41:00.003-04:00

some more missed connections and other sketches.
i want to redo this one because i messed up the inking and it turned out looking like mez...the guy did not look like mez. i do not think mez is cute

missed connections, faces and babes

2009-03-26T01:18:00.003-04:00

look how hip i am

2009-03-17T13:09:00.002-04:00

my teacher and i were joking about hip art and how it would be hilarious to draw animals without antlers with antlers. so i did and she about bust a gut. and i like doing ti so much that i'm going to keep doing it. here are two out of 4 that i'm doing for a series of calendar cards

the owl matches the fox much better in real life. the red just didn't turn out in the scan. i was too lazy to rescan it though.

business cards and mailers

2009-03-16T04:15:00.003-04:00

working on stuff for the actual self promotion of me. i know i know..i'm awesome enough right? but some people don't know that.

caution...boobs ahead

2009-03-15T22:15:00.003-04:00

hooray, my scanner worked! to get it to do so there was a series of unplugging and restarts that needed to happen, but huzzah!
lately i've just been pouring tea on my sketchbook (not really, but pretty close to it. so the pages are nice and warped. nothing is sacred.

i see cute boys all the time. so i want to start doing more of these and then out out a little book

i just want to draw ladies and get really good

i drew this one for pi day...too bad it totally sucks

poster original

2009-03-09T23:22:00.003-04:00

something i whipped up for class...i darkened the contrast in photoshop and added text. this band is really great. you should check them out

2009-03-09T01:50:00.001-04:00

Losticature

2009-02-25T01:56:00.001-05:00

not the best, but i just kinda busted it out. i need to start drawing these things again...i also need new copics in the worst way. bummer

fanart for sale

2009-02-23T03:25:00.003-05:00

as a commercial artist...theoretically everything is for sale....and this is no exception!

I've been kind of losing the financial battle recently and now I find myself taking an unexpected (random/frivolous) trip across the country for networking and mental sanity (insanity) purposes.

getting to it. I have all this fanart lying around and I don't know what to do with it, maybe you want it? it'll only cost you $10. each piece is full colour marker rendered (except the billy dogma which is ink and gouache on grey paper)

all fanart shown is available for purchase. I will gladly take commissions at this point as well. what can i say...mindless fanart is fun. if you want anything more elaborate than what is shown please message me and we can discuss price.

or if you're just a nice person and want to help me keep doing what i'm doing...

i painted some love birds

2009-02-21T12:12:00.001-05:00

yeah, i should probably paint over this and start again

i think i might be able to start drawing again

2009-02-20T21:26:00.002-05:00

ok ok, for newcomers, i just want to stress that this is my personal sketchbook blog. so if you're offended by swear and penises...maybe you shouldn't be lookin here.

that being said, here's some pages from the valentines weekend

low res scan

2009-02-11T22:59:00.001-05:00

i painted a deer...ooh look at how much of a hipster i am

sketchbook stuff

2009-02-03T00:51:00.005-05:00

based on real people i know from school

a rare night of boobtasticness from sam

a kick from sheridan i met on the train, he was...and really admired a lot of people i know...i turned into a horrible nora namedropper for him

also...blogger used to nicely resize my images so they wouldn't distort or get cropped by the layout..and now it doesn't. help?

sketchbook depression

2009-01-20T13:56:00.002-05:00

some pages i just got around to scanning, maybe i'll be more on the ball from now on. force myself to draw all the time, like i used to

sketchy sketch sketch

2008-11-05T01:41:00.002-05:00

another Fanart Friday: Murdoc Niccals of the Gorillaz

some sketchbook pages.

some dailies. i can never make myself finish these

sometimes i draw

2008-10-07T22:24:00.001-04:00

Captain Horrible

2008-09-21T01:45:00.001-04:00

just a little something for fan art fridays... i want to start doing this as frequently as i can. ok ok..it's sunday. BUT i did draw this on friday...my damned scanner wouldn't work until just now. but yeah, fun times. fan art..i guess people like that junk eh?

i've got a PHD in horribledrawingness. yeah, this really blows, i'm sorry you had to look at it. just to let you know i never really tried to make it look like nathan fillion, so don't start lecturing on the poor likenes..k?
yeah whatever. i have a headache. i forgot how to use all media over the summer.

New stuff and experiments

2008-09-17T21:43:00.002-04:00

Want to feel good about yourself but you don't know how? Make a donation to a good cause, there's lots! and if you can't decided...donate to my cause. I'm trying to afford the expensive yet fulfilling NCN caricature convention. This happens every year and allows hundreds of great artists to come together and compete for bragging rights. more information can be found here
for people who donate I'll be updating this blog much more frequently so it's worth your while. I'll also do drawings for people who donate large0ish amounts. YAY!

here's some art!

sketchbook doodles. the guys is a total leslie hunk

superhero doodles..people like those i guess. some of these might to redone is illustrator for practice...i haven't reall done that in a while

my project rooftop submission for the vapirella revamp

work comics and sketchbook stuff

2008-07-22T15:17:00.002-04:00

i take damaged pieces of paper at work and fold them into little sketchbooks so i can draw at lunch sometimes.

and i still have all the usual retarded boy troubles

uhmmmm yeah

james cromwell caricature

2008-06-16T12:43:00.001-04:00

i might add colour later, or i might just redo the whole thing on a nice crisp piece of watercolour paper.

finally a scanner that works

2008-06-04T03:03:00.002-04:00

all of these are at least a month old. but here's a nice little sketch dump

here's some sketchbook stuff i doodled near the end.

here's something that had been inked for a while, but i finally coloured it tonight. i'm thinking about a series.

all of these were done as quick demos to teach kids about caricatures and face shapes when i was asked to be a visiting artist at a local art day for kids. it was kinda neat. i maybe plan to rework and finish these. except the sarah one. that blows.

boobies

2008-04-20T23:55:00.003-04:00

a bad photo of my self portrait before i turned it in on friday. i should have worked on it longer, but i was afraid of overworking it...sooo yeah. it's done. i kinda like it and don't think it's terrible. i should really try and do more self portraits. i mean, i draw myself a lot, but i never really try to get it.

something in the doing

2008-03-28T09:17:00.002-04:00

sometimes it's fun not to think and just to do. this doesn't mean anything. i could make a up a lot of meanings considering red riding hood is riddled with symbolism..but not right now.
i can't draw wolves at all, and if i really sat down and worked this is would be pretty bitchin maybe.
i drew the sketch a couple of days a go..and let it sit, and last night i just decided to get it done. and here it is.

wheee

watercolour giraffe

2008-03-27T19:54:00.003-04:00

i'm pleased with it. but it's easy to just make something looks like itself. i want to do more. it's nice to just kinda do it and let it be

new sketchbook

2008-03-27T19:47:00.002-04:00

i finally got around to sloppily binding a new book for myself... now if only could force myself to draw in it more...

another mediocre drawing of john. i can doodle him pretty well, but i need to actualy look and figure out how to really draw him. based on the bizarre fantasies of rejection i've been having. i used Of Montreal lyrics to make it not sad.

schoolwork and other things

2008-03-25T10:41:00.002-04:00

a twist on the song "don't go breaking my heart" by elton johm. watercolour mixed media for my interp class

warhol relief caricature. this picture is bad, i need to try and take a better one. paper mache', gesso, acrylic and acetate glasses

jeremy stock of the NCN. watercolour and ink

sketchbook stuff

2008-03-10T21:45:00.002-04:00

just some more sketchbook stuff. animals, comics about john and girls. that's what i'm all about. that and trying not to totally blow at marker rendering.

shit i need to draw more.

2008-02-26T12:03:00.001-05:00

some crappy sketchbook pages. i'm trying to start doing that more. hopefully i'll put some new on here at least once a week. here's hoping!

more sketchbook crap. girls, comics about boys...all badly drawn

2008-02-17T23:33:00.002-05:00

sketchbook comics about boobs

2008-01-26T17:09:00.001-05:00

what else is new? i draw boobs all the time. this is based on real events that happened a couple weekends ago. done using my awesome japanese tombo. i might colour it, but my sketchbook pages aren't the best with markers, so maybe i'll try doing a digital wash or something, like i did in the old days

caricature work, and sketchbook pages.

2008-01-15T22:46:00.001-05:00

sometimes i wish i was andy french...i also wish i had a sweater that colour.

rosemary and i hanging out...and my thoughts on it

amy winehouse

the Johns of They Might Be Giants

schoolwork and sketchbook pages

2007-11-25T14:32:00.000-05:00

a watercolour for the war and peace project in my interpretive illustration class.

and these are some sketchbook pages that i just got around to scanning. since that machine is so iffy.

sandra

2007-11-09T00:53:00.000-05:00

a live caricature done in class of my teacher sandra dionisi.

Goulet!

2007-11-03T23:37:00.000-04:00

sam and i both drew robert goulet. he died and it's sad. you should chekc out some of his music and maybe draw him

caricature work

2007-10-24T20:33:00.000-04:00

irma and nimit

jason marcy

my brother and his girlfriend

emi

joe bluhm

back from the dead?

2007-09-22T15:02:00.001-04:00

i gte busy drawing at work all summer, that i kinda forget to draw when i get home. sorry about that

2007-04-10T14:00:00.000-04:00

come and buy my stuff

2007-04-01T16:05:00.000-04:00

wood thrush BS watercolour

2007-04-01T14:30:00.000-04:00

on a post card for my grandma...a thrush, after chris's advice

i'm a winner

2007-03-25T20:53:00.000-04:00

roll up the rim bitches. i won! gonna get me a tea XL stylescott daly

this comic is gross (says sarah shay) i think it's funny. mom, if you find this. uhmm sorry?

floating head squid kids. yeah

art show

2007-03-25T02:12:00.000-04:00

for my friend victoria's birthday she wanted to ahve an art show at her house. fancy dress, wine, cheese, the works. this was also an unofficial first show by Six Boob Studios (victoria, our friend mara and myself...someday we'll think of a much better name, but we will never ever use it). so it was great fun. i've been too busy with school and sketchbooks and being lazy to get anything really good to take to it, but i had some stuff. here's a bjork portrait...because the unofficial theme of the night was bjork (the only thing all three of us have drawn).

these, well, they're all accidents. accidents that i used in my favor and i ended up liking them quite a bit. i can't think of anythign else to call them but the "fuck you artist series". mainly because when put next to victoria and mara's work, they totally looked like they were all "ooh look at me i'm an artist i'm fancy" in a hoity toity voice

flavor of leslie?

2007-03-23T01:50:00.000-04:00

it's weird...i can't really decide if this is a drawing of me or not...it started out not being one, then i kinda thought it was...now i think i'm looking at it too much.

st. patrick's sketching

2007-03-20T19:21:00.000-04:00

dear blogger,
is it so hard to keep my images in order? is it? hmmm?