Madtown: Rejected Scene

While nailing down a style for my Madtown segments, I did this scene which was rejected in favor of a looser style. 

I like it, I got to compose for movie parameters instead of comics, and it's one of the rare times I've rendered shadow in ink and I don't do it nearly enough. 

Carol And John's Superhero Club

Designed some buttons for my pals at Carol And John's Comic Shop.  They should be available for their big holiday sale this year.  If you're in Cleveland, you should stop by.  Santa, free beer, buttons, and comics.  Sounds like reason enough for the season to me. 

Dr Sketchy San Francisco: Cute Girls On Bikes

Maybe it's the weather changing in Cleveland, but I've had San Francisco on my mind a lot lately.  Here's some stuff I haven't posted yet from Dr. Sketchy's at 111 Minna I attended a little over a year ago. 

I drew all of these with a government issued number two pencil, which is reason enough to score myself another government job.  

Madtown: Scene 65

Got the okay to put these up, so here are some of the storyboards I've been working on.  

I'm working with 4 other artists to bring Charles Moore's script to life, and he really wanted me to push my comic book experience with the segments.  So, I'm relying more on line of sight eye movement and less on conventional film shot framing.  It's been a lot of fun to tweak my style, while playing in a familiar sandbox.

I draw these double size, and shrink em into the framework Charles set up.

Dr Sketchy Cleveland: Bond Girls

Continuing the theme of drawing new pals who intimidated me last year,  Dot King was a fantastic model for Novembers Dr. Sketchy.

I was looking forward to sensitive pencil drawing, but once I started using a marker I couldn't stop.

Sometimes it chooses you, I guess. 

Textures, Shadings, Nonsense

I firmly believe that the answer is always in your sketchbook.  While thinking about what I wanted to do for the upcoming Winter Soiree at Cleveland Exotic Dance, I found these. and I think I found where I want to go.  

Drawing from life and adding complete and udder ridiculousness.  Should be fun!  

Raise A Glass For Cleveland

Here's a t shirt design I did for my friends at Revolutionary Bum.  The finished version (Complete with the word Cleveland) will be debuting at Made In The 216 this year.  Awesome event, awesome company, and I like to think I drew some pretty awesome arms. 

Drawing @ Murray Hill With Thor

Thor is going to pose at Murray Hill next week so we headed up to check it out, eat fig bars, and talk about which Lou Reed songs are about heroin (most of them).

For some reason I felt the need to draw everything on two pages, as well as announce that I was drawing everything on two pages.

If you didn't know, anything on two pages is much cooler than stuff on one page.  It's automatically too awesome to be contained on just one page.

Unless of course, you're Thor and you're throwing down with crayons.  Then it's awesome outta the box.

Dr Sketchy Cleveland: Cherry La Voix

To counteract all the marker and paint I threw around (onto the page and my coat) at the Pencil Riot, I rocked a pencil for the October Dr Sketchy.  

Dr Sketchy Cleveland: Fever Blister

Drawings from Dr Sketchy in August.  

 

Cleveland Dr. Sketchy is a room full of talent, and sometimes you get to jam with them on the page.  Emily Meluch and I threw these down.  Go check out her page, it's awesome!

www.emilymeluch.com 

Poor Sailor

I went to see Shoreway last week at the Beachland Tavern, so I thought I'd post fliers I made for  Matt Rolin's old band sometime around 2007.

The first of many astronaut drawings, and both riffs on paintings of Cupid and Psyche.  

Originals: Jacques-Louis David,  Francois Gerard 

I didn't know it at the time, but these obviously set the tone for a bunch of my non sequential work. 

Rock and roll and spacemen, yknow?

PENCIL RIOT!

I've always said I never know if I've drawn anything worthwhile at Dr. Sketchy events until the next morning when I've sobered up. 

Which is the best way I can recount my night on the PENCIL RIOT! A bar crawl with all the sketchy kids through the w.25th area.

 

The night started at the Market Avenue Wine bar, which is where we have Sunday Art Club.  Their back room has the same feel as an old timey hunters lounge, and it was full of art reprobates.  It was awesome.

For some reason I decided to start a bar crawl drunk, so the drawings started out fast, furious, and loose.

 

Next to the Flying Fig where Danielle, Thor, and Tess mounted the booths and bars for some dynamite poses.  Ron and I bombed the menus with PENCIL RIOT propaganda in case unsuspecting patrons weren't baffled enough by this nonsense.

 I gave up on any pencil under drawings once we hit the Speakeasy under the Bier Market.  Maybe it's how much Jim Mahfood I've been looking at lately, or maybe it was the booze, but drawing this loose was a real blast and I plan on doing more of it soon.

  Being a Saturday night, it was hard for the models to do their thing, so I nabbed a portrait of an innocent bystander.

 Off to the ABC for Celeste posing on the upper railings. The crowd at ABC was probably my favorite.  The sort of guys that would make fun of art types in any other situation, but because we brought a gang of pretty girls with us, they were super interested in what we were doing. 

I wish I would have cataloged the conversation next to the drawings.

 

More Celeste on some tables, and my favorite drawing of the night.  I've got to work on capturing this sort of looseness without drinking my weight in beer. 

 Quick doodle of Dr. Jason before leaving the ABC.  I ended up killing my brand new Copic that night.  Blew out a marker alongside my liver.

 Final drawing of the night at The Old Angle, where I didn't get another beer. 

I've done a few things in my sketchbook over the years that aren't about the drawings but capturing the moment instead.  Line is a better camera when it comes to capturing the artists mood.

These drawings may be loose and rough, but they're a great catalog of an amazing night. 

Also, check out Craig's stuff from the riot:  Sketch Of The Day 

And Erin's: Pencil Riot!

And Jim's: Sketchery

Hopefully we can catalog all of these together online somewhere.  If nothing else for the court testimony.

Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom @ The Cleveland Library

This week is the beginning of the library performances of the Ingenuity adaptation of Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.  If you're in town, you should come out to support it: Library Performances.  It's a really fun event, and an excuse to support libraries.

I illustrated the third act of the play, and thought now was a good time to show that off.  You should still try to come out if you can.  The pictures make a whole lot more sense with the voice actors and music.  

Actually, even without the easy access to scotch, the library is probably a much better venue for the play than Ingenuity was.