SKETCHY STUFF

Space Jam

This started from a sketch I did when I was listening to a John Coltrane CD. He and his band were jamming and it kept building up into the stratosphere. I've done three versions of this in color. The first was in watercolor and the other two in the program Freehand. here are the other two:

(Watercolor)

(Freehand)

ERNEST SMUDGE

(More cruel ridicule.)

Color Sketch

I keep trying to simply add some color to my sketchbook drawings and post them. Hours later I find myself still tinkering and experimenting with them. Although I enjoy and probably gain something from the process, I sometimes wonder if I should just post them in pencil. The name of this blog is Leadheaded after all.
On the other hand, these could just be referred to as digital studies for actual paintings.
This one is odd in that I originally imagined it to be more blue. Somehow I ended up coloring it in warm browns and reds! I bet if I do paint it, I'll color it completely different again. I have a tendency to take off for places without knowing how to get there.

REVISION (8:15 PM)
(Then again blue/green's nice.)

MAGLOG

GLOG

ROBOT

Sketch-Scan-Photoshop-jpeg-upload

DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION

STUMPY MARKINS

SKETCHJUNK

HULK UPDATED

Celebrity Endorsement

STATEFARM
Because you just never know when a giant radioactive green rage-aholic may come bounding through your part of the world.

Reptile in Nice Clothes

I give you, the bird...

Wolverween

More Happiness

BACK FROM THE DEAD!

This blog was temporarily held in detention and subjected to "Unique Interrogation Methods" by bloggers spam detection robots in order to determine whether it was a spam blog. Apparently the robots determined the nonsense I was spewing was just the usual blogger nonsense and not the kind spambots harvest from other blogs and vomit up. Or they decided they had sufficiently put the fear of robot power into me in order to stop me from posting bad things about robots. Whatever the F- I'm back (and as you can see above) happy as ever.

Face Sketch

IF-POEM (Robopoem2)

Here's another attempt at "Robot Poetry".

IF-Poem (Robot Poem)

Of course this is translated from the original ones and zeros of binary code.

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH.

Good luck.

Angel/Devil

VICE

vice 1 |vīs|
noun immoral or wicked behavior. See note at sin .

IF-GEEKY

This is for Illustration Friday and began as a marker sketch on the edge of a manuscript I was illustrating. It was then colored in Photoshop.

I imagine this guy sitting in a dull meeting about "pro-actively maximizing profit potential while minimizing manufacturing and personnel costs while at the same time harnessing the synergy of our core assets". Meanwhile he drifts into a Walter Mitty-like daydream.

IF-Twisted

This is a quickie dashed off to meet the deadline for Illustration Friday. Originally the guy was going to be dancing but this happened instead. Thanks to my son Reed for input on the background.

Another Marker Sketch

This was also sketch straight out with no pencils. The light gray marker is drying out so the clouds have a dry brush look.

Red

Originally a gray marker sketch, I recolored this in Photoshop.

Brush marker Sketches

These are some old (last year) sketches I did after I'd gotten some cool gray brush markers. I had a blast drawing straight out, with no pencil line, with these. At the time an assignment came in for a storyboard to be done in gray tones. So naturally I did them with the brush markers. The guy I did them for wondered why I did them with markers instead of the computer. I didn't know what to tell him. The truth is, although it probably took more time, it made the job more fun for me.

IF-Camouflage

Vern in Color

Vern

This is Vern. He has a nose for trouble.

Strange Creature

Here's a sketchbook sketch. Although small, I like the way this one looks.

Illustration Friday: Rejection

IF-SUIT

The topic for this week's Illustration Friday is "Suit".
When I used to work downtown, this was a common sight at lunch time.

Shot 2L

Don't play with guns and all that.

Scrap Sketches

Drawn on post-its and scrap paper.

IGOR

This a is another sketch that i colored in Photoshop.
What is Igor thinking?

IF-Cars

I enloyed the Pixar movie "CARS" as much as most but at some point the idea of living cars started to feel sort of creepy. Already we have cars that talk to us. Do we need this? I can see, some time in the future, how the kids that love "CARS" the movie might actually think they might want living organic cars and machines but I certainly hope they think it through first.

IF-Signs

This was done for Illustration Friday a creative art exhibit on the web. Every week they pick a theme and then artists with blogs post their results.

Mind Goblin