A quick comic. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy just doing little shorts like this.
November Theme Challenge! The contents of a trashcan
latest 'skines
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2009Jun 301
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2009Jun 30
tags: diggie | dude | fat | fineliner | ugly
He’s fat and ugly. And a dude I think. Fat ugly dude.
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2009Jun 30
tags: beards | Micron | photoshop
The ubiquitous beard….
I actually decided to put more than a few minutes into a drawing, for once. I did this one from my head with a fairly new Micron .01 and Photoshopped the background. It’s a bit of a hipster drawing but I like it. Who do you think they look like? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesudesu/
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2009Jun 30
tags: checkerboard | free form | wonderland
Wonderland?
This is just another organic, flowing checkerboard page which I decided to do after the first one came out so well. This one reminds me of the spatial distortions as Alice falls down the rabbit hole.
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2009Jun 29
tags: gouache | ink | samantha zaza | szaza | tattoo
Part three of my entry in Pamela Jackson’s book for Moly-X48, part of the International Moleskine Exchange. I used a Micron Pigma pen and gouache.
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2009Jun 29
tags: fineliner diggie fire burn wreck
Once in Germany I saw this burning wreck just sitting there on the highway. Got reminded of that yesterday so I tried to capture.
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2009Jun 29
tags: cruise
sketches aboard a cruise ship
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2009Jun 29
tags: June 09. | Micron pens | sanctuary | Theme Challenge
with the house full of guest from my wife’s side of the family, the only sanctuary i can find is between the pages of my moleskine…
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2009Jun 29
tags: Culross | Fife | Scotland
Culross, Fife – Pencil with ink highlights in a Moleskine Sketchbook.
Culross (pronounced “Coo – rus”) is a quaint little village on the south Fife coastline. It has been lovingly restored by The National Trust for Scotland, this restoration having started just before the second world war began. This place has a long, documented history, but is probably best remembered for the first off-shore attempts to mine coal. In 1575 an artificial island was constructed a few hundred metres into the Firth of Forth and a well sunk. Water was kept at bay by the continuous use of horses lifting buckets of the stuff. The coal was either exported to other parts of Scotland, the Netherlands or used to boil sea water from “pans”, or depressions carved into rocks with spaces underneath them. As the tide came in these pans would fill with salt water. Fires were lit under these rocks when the tide receded and when the water was boiled off the residual salt was collected and sold. There are many salt pans along the east of Scotland, in fact one village near Edinburgh – Prestonpans, gets its name from this industry. Culross was the biggest exporter of salt in its day.
There are many fine antiquated buildings in this village. My scene shows its main street – the sea is behind the viewer. The large building, on the right, is the Townhouse, once the centre of commerce and judicial activity. If you walk up the street just to its right you will see the village’s own wee “Mercat Cross” sitting inside a ring of low, Corbie-stepped roofs. Further on it comes a quite a shock to discover Culross Abbey Church – a place of worship which seems out of place with the size of the village, but many believe that St Mungo was born here so its long been a place of pilgrimage. These days Culross just looks like a sleepy wee place to visit but its worth the effort if only to see the setting of how 16th century folk lived.
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2009Jun 29
my grandfather sitting in his favourite chair.
watercolours and pen
