#187 The Polar Bear

Animalia: Day 130

The Polar Bear

My first memory of an art museum was going to a museum in

elementary school. I don't remember what or where the museum was

(Lexington? Louisville? Cincy?), but I remember our assignment was

to seek out an artwork we liked and copy it. I picked a drawing (or was it

a print?) of a polar bear. A very simple line drawing. I remember copying

it closely and noting the curvature of the back and the hump where the

shoulder blades protrude. I was very young. But it has stuck with me,

very clearly, for some reason or another. It was not a sitting polar bear.

I can picture it very clearly. In any case, I don't think I have drawn a

polar bear since then. And for some reason the task seemed daunting.

But then I did it. So here's that.

minimal background.

Tomorrow: the Porcupine.

#180 The Pig

Animalia: Day 128

The Pig

Trying to do more graphic style. Obviously indebted to Mignola.

I was also consciously avoiding drawing a cute pig.

Too many of the pictures of pigs on the internet are cute.

+ colors.

Tomorrow (not really tho, no scanner): the Platypus.

#158 Halloween Backlog

Hey all.

Got some Halloween stuff I never got to posting:

 Costume this year. It's a cardboard cut-out of my face.

What? I only had an hour to make a costume. Leave me alone.

 Abe Sapien Pumpkin this year.

Abey-baby. 

Mine from last year, Hellboy, and my gf's Boogie Man from NMBC.

Yerp, oldies.

#140 Belated Halloween

Hey Friends.

I realized I never made a Halloween post this year.

So this past Halloween I was St. Stephen.

St. Stephen was stoned to death, and sometimes he is represented

as a haloed saint with a bloody stone imbedded into his forehead.

Like so:

Also, this past Halloween we carved extra small, extra hard pumpkins.

They had a hardened shell layer that I used woodcut tools to get through.

Mine is the Hellboy on the left,

and my gf did the boogieman on the right.

#99 The Ibex

Animalia: Day 81

The Ibex

Again, trying to work in a new graphic direction

playing off of folks like Mike Mignola.

Pretty happy with this one.

Hopefully later tonight: the Iguana

EDIT

Added color:

#98 The Hyena

Animalia: Day 80

The Hyena

This one took forever.

Hyena bodies are real hard to draw.

That's why I didn't really draw one.

Tomorrow: the Ibex

#11 Halloween

I forgot to post these around Halloween.

Mignola's Batman Jack-O-Lantern and our Costumes.

Probably not the best use of McClain's tools.

#10 Sketchbook

Swoop.

Post number ten!

Here's more sketchbook stuff from the past two weeks,

and one from the Summer.

Inspired by and made on a placemat in Japan. Kanidouraku.

Alien Baltan and Ultraman,

poses and background inspired by Mike Mignola.

Bosch copy and the view from

Dunkin Donuts at Goverment Center.

Rhino, from Natty H cover.

And a virus.

Drawn on the plane to KC.

The turtle started out as a the jacket

of the woman to my left, but she moved.