I started off this sketchbook copying down the hilarious subject lines of spam emails I'd been getting:
"Your big proud friend in the pants will overshadow the Empire State Building"
"It's better to be gigantic than to be romantic"
"Do you want to feel like a fish in the river at diplomatic meetings?"
"You can kick other men with your stick!"
"It will be impossible not to notice the outstanding bulge inside your pants. Enter bravely!"
"Would you give up your lung just to be hung?"
"With a big friend in underwear you can go far, you can be a bright & shining star. Listen more than twice that your tool is nice! Enter bravely!"
sketches for a bull terrier painting I surprised my friends Irena and John Roman with:
I listed prints of the final painting on my Etsy store here
I drew my little monkeys on the train ride to MassArt, and feel like I'm finally able to draw Mr. Giles from memory and have it really look like him. Frank and Giles have similar markings, but really different eyes and expressions and personalities. Mr. Giles had a tough January with emergency surgery and a couple weeks of convalescence, right around his birthday, too...the vet gave us a whole test tube of large, calcium-based stones he removed from Giles' bladder. But this 9-year-old Hurricane Katrina refugee dog is one tough cookie. He's running around and acting like his crazy old self again.
Last year Devilicia and I went to see a friend give a poetry reading, and he was really good. Sitting there silently listening to some of the other readers was excruciatingly painful though. Instead of jumping up and screaming and running out of the claustrophobic room, I tried to tune everything out and just drew tiny pictures on a receipt Devilicia slipped me:
Mr. Giles's favorite outdoor activity is spinning in endless circles on his heiny, staring at the sky, before flopping over on his side and rolling in the dirt til he's totally brown and gray:
I did the above picture in my sketchbook as a demo for my Black & White Illustration class. We were talking about making pictures with the eyedropper tool, white gouache, and blotting with cheap paper towels. I'd been thinking about the Autumn day Devilicia shot photos of me with Frankensteiny and Mr. Giles back in Rhode Island:
more dog doodles of Mr. Giles, drawn from memory:
and Frankensteiny, from memory:
more stuff from the Open Drawing sessions at MassArt:
poster sketch and color study for my friend J. Cannibal's Feast of Flesh 8 zombie event:
13" x 19" signed posters are available on my Etsy store here
Devilicia and I came up with a funny new zombie act for this show. Video of the act is online here and here, and tons of photos are here
sketches for the mask I built for the act:
sketches for a birthday surprise painting commissioned by my old MassArt friend Jef Taylor for his wife Alexis of their 2 pitbulls, Maggie and Charlie, and their Boston Terrier, Jim:
digital color study:
sketch for a memorial portrait I painted for a friend:
the final is shown here
superpower I REALLY wish I had:
rough sketches for new paintings in progress:
random:
2 comments:
This is awesome Roosh!! By the time I got down here I don't remember the specific things I wanted to say, but I know I'm impressed and incredibly inspired so I'll leave it at that. :)
My verification word to post this is "quout" maybe in number 55 you can sketch out a meaning for this word and i will too... did someone quout in here? the dog just left another quout on the carpet! she was wearing the most fashionable quout on her hat...
thanks, Silvia! I'll definitely try to come up with a good quout drawing for #55. hmmm....
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