Tigerbeats!

Just a couple of dudes from Tigerbeats last night.
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Relaxed and Confident

"Relaxed and confident cat"
Top: Edith Zimmerman
Bottom: Peter Hanchak

MASH ups!

A page of collaborative drawings w/ Sara.
Top Left: TMNT quadrant featuring Turtle by Sara and Splinter by Me.
Top Right: Drawing of Brooklyn Social feature Camo-Tie-Bartender and various patrons.
Bottom Left: MASH up for Sara, drawn and administered by Me.
Botton Right: MASH up for Me, drawn and administered by Sara.

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Bar Buddies

Bar Buddies is a cartoon for children that features animated wine, liquor, beer, etc. items that talk and have adventures.


Andrew did the concept work for the character names and the theme song. look for "Bar Buddies" this coming fall!
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Bicycle Fun

Riding the subway and thinking of bicycles.
Watercolor added at home.
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Group Doodle

I think Dena started this drawing with a portrait of me, I think. Anyway, it turned into a group doodle that utilized two different pens and various other portraits. There's a lot going on.

Enjoy.
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My Throat Opens 4 Wine

After figure drawing I had dinner with Andrew, Stephanie and a few of their co-workers. This is a napkin drawing of a t-shirt concept. The idea stems from the phrase "My Throat Opens 4 Wine". It's a extra long shirt with a printed Sexy Body w/ bikini featuring the aforementioned phrase illustrated as a stomach tattoo in gothic letters on the printed body.

As you can see, the artwork has been approved. All we need now is financial backing for this project so please leave a comment if you are interested becoming a part of this unique business opportunity.

Thanks.
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Fall Figure Drawing

I made it to the SVA figure drawing studio today after work for the first time since the new school year. It had been so long since the last time I went that I was really a bit worried and hesitant that I wouldn't be able to draw. The start was a bit rocky but after a few sketches I fell back into a bit of a rhythm and churned out some decent sketches. There are more after the jump but the one above was one of my favorite long poses.


A few two minute poses.


Our first long pose.


Another drawing that I was really happy with.


Overall it was so much fun to be back at figure drawing. All of the crazy regulars were there which is always strangely comforting. After such a fun time drawing I was basically giddy for the rest of the night.

Hope I can make it next week.
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V. Dollar Building

Here's another drawing from my trip to Put In Bay last week. It's a building near downtown that's certainly over 100 years old and housed the original Put In Bay post office and countless other businesses over the years. Javan said that when he was a kid it was a hardware store, but now it features a bar called "The Fishbowl" in one half of the ground floor and in the other half there is a restaurant called "Mossback's". The "V. Dollar" above the front door is the name of the dude who built it. I forget his first name but he was the first Mayor of Put In Bay.

That's all the history I have.

When I was working on this drawing a guy came up and started chatting with me. It caught me off guard as people in New York don't really pay too much attention so I decided that I need to be more prepared to talk to folks when I'm drawing.

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Tony's Place

Last week I was away on family vacation on South Bass Island which is a part of thePut In Bay Islands out in Lake Erie. This is a drawing of one of the "watering holes" on the island. Tony's Place is more of a local spot so it's pretty similar to my local brooklyn spot, Boat. Anyway, this is a drawing of the outside of the bar.

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Put In Bay

Ok, a few more pages from my family vacation. This page was made while I was flying to Michigan from NYC.

A page made during the drive from Ann Arbor to South Bass Island. (don't worry, I wasn't driving). Yes, that does say "The Three That Set Us Free - God, Guts, Guns" and yes it was in the back window of a pickup truck somewhere just east of Toledo.

Here is an attempt at a watercolor of a sunset. The brush was super small and I had trouble getting enough water down on the page. Also, I don't know what I'm doing. Maybe one of those watercolor waterbrushes would help

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Man with Hat.

I remember what my cable box looked like in 1986.
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Update: here's another drawing from last night, it's my old cable box as I remember it (also a mustang that was parked outside of Pianos).

Columbia Cruiser

This is a bike that I rode around South Bass Island while I was on vacation with my family last month. It was an old Columbia bicycle that was used as a rental bike on the island. I believe Javan said that his father bought the bike from one of the rental places though I cant recall when. Anyway, it was a great old cruiser with a coaster brake, and a chain guard.


It had a great plate crown fork as well and was in quite good shape considering it was well over thirty years old. Javan seemed to think the tires were the same as when his dad bought the bike which seems crazy but I must admit they did appear to be super old. No matter what it was a joy to ride ride around the island.

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Post-It™ People

Last week I was out with some of my co-workers and we ended the evening at the bar Home Sweet Home. Magically there was a pad of Post-It™ notes so I started doing some quick drawings of some of the people in the bar.

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Summer Napkin Drawings

Still more drawings from Tuesday.

After my Building drawing, while Travis and I were getting a drink, I made "4th of July" theme drawing on a bar napkin. That lead to a whole series of "What We Love About Summer" drawings. Travis drew the lemonaid/hotdog drawing along with the baseball drawing. I drew the rest.

Check after the jump to see a version of the napkins with added color.

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Ice Cream?

On Tuesday we were let out of work early so I rode my bike around town a bit, stopping for an hour or so to make a drawing.

Ice Cream anyone?

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BBQ

This past sunday I attended a BBQ hosted by my friends Max and Andrew. It was a pretty amazing event, as blogged about by Max , complete with an awesome photo of me eating a giant catfish po'boy.

The image above was a quick drawing of max tending grill (way to go Max, looking so smooth). Good job team, can't wait for the next BBQ.

Best.
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Coney Island!

Travis, Kate and I rode our bikes out to Coney Island today. We had hot dogs at Famous Nathan's and then went out to the beach to enjoy the cold sandy breeze coming off the ocean.

This is Travis reading on the beach after a quick dip in the ocean.

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