Monkeyball

A movie called Moneyball opened today. I tried to convince my co-workers that it should have been called Monkeyball. To prove the potential of this concept I drew this quick, demonstrative sketch. Come on, who wouldn't go see that?

Hey bub...

Wolverine is one of my favorite characters to draw. I could just about draw him in my sleep by now. In fact, that would explain why I've been sleeping so poorly lately. Hmm.

Anyway, the claws should be longer here though and the anatomy's a little iffy but hey, it's just a quick sketch for fun so I'm not gonna bother. Not to mention that the pencils were so light it was hard getting a good scan without turning the contrast way the hell up, which means you can see every stray line and every speck of dirt too. Oh well.

PhilosoFish



"Don't you wonder sometimes if there shouldn't be more to life than this?"
"Um whattaya mean?"

I drew this a while ago. This is kind of where my head's been at lately.
It could be that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are those who just pick a destination and head for it, then the rest of the world seems to align around them. There are those who find joy in modest goals, who go to work every day and come home every evening and they are satisfied with that. Then there are those like me, like the fish in that picture, who dare to dream big but are too well aware of their own limitations to achieve it. I dunno.

A very special FCBD haiku!

get out of your house
run down to the comics shop
free comic book day

Haiku for the hell of it

possibility
the first step is the hardest
all roads lead somewhere

New resolutions

Maybe it's silly, a bit delusional even, but this past New Year's Eve felt like a fresh start. I celebrated with some very good friends, and maybe that's part of it - but I feel hopeful about 2011, I really do. Lately, I just haven't enjoyed drawing at all (which my lack of blog posts will attest to), so my new year's resolution was either going to be to draw more, or to quit drawing completely.

I've decided to let doubt be a thing I leave behind in 2010. If and when I draw, it's going to be because I want to. 2011 is going to be the year I take my artwork to new places, creatively and even geographically. On the other hand, if I do decide to quit drawing, I'll find a new pursuit and I won't look back. Whatever I decide to do, I will do it wholeheartedly. I'm barrelling full speed ahead towards an unknown goal, and I quite like it.

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One of my pals, Johan B, is getting married next summer and he asked me to illustrate the wedding invitations. Considering that this is a day that will hopefully live in their memories "till death do them part," it was very flattering to be associated with this in some small way. Johan and Pia had a very clear idea of what they wanted, which was very liberating for me in a way, because that meant I could focus completely on making their vision a reality, to the best of my abilities.