Tue, Jun. 30th, 2009, 09:15 pm
Flying Lessons

Clockwork mother bird and chick. The mother bird has one wing held protectively behind the chick and one pointing up. Her shape is vaguely reminiscent of an egg timer, with an egg-shaped body over a semi-pyramidal base. The chick has both wings up excitedly and resembles a pyramid metronome. Both birds have googley eyes. Digital sketch in blue pencil.
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Sat, Jun. 13th, 2009, 06:09 pm
Warmup sketch

Groening-style sketch of a guy with bad 80s hair grinning waaaay too big in a very insincere way.

This was alarmingly trivial and quick to draw. I think I start to see now why Matt Groening was so fond of this style.

No idea who this is, mind you. Perhaps a used car salesman.
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Mon, May. 18th, 2009, 12:47 am
Random doodle.

Digital drawing in blue pencil. Top hat with bow, three leaves, and a feather as decoration. The leaves are arranged to be slightly lifting off the hat in a haphazard fashion with the feather coming roughly out of the center. Handwritten under it in cursive is the text Ceci n&est pas un plume.
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Mon, Nov. 24th, 2008, 01:06 am

I don't know why, but I find that androgynous people are much easier to draw than strongly-gendered people. So most of my random-person sketches end up that way by default. That or they have beards.

Black and white sketch; mostly head-on view of a somewhat lanky androgynous person with longish floppy straight short hair, distant eyes and a thoughtful smirk.
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Thu, Jul. 10th, 2008, 12:56 am

Sometimes, on a rare occasion, I actually feel compelled to sketch out a rough draft of a strip before laying out the vectors. The weird thing is, sometimes I unexpectedly end up with sketchy bits I actually quite like:

Sketch version of Brainley; glasses are only circles. He is at a slight angle and he is smirking and wagging his eyebrows.
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