Still Dreamin'

Oh man, last night I had a terrifying dream, so I tried to draw it on to subway today while I was going to work. In the dream a cat was scratching my face and one of it's claws became lodged in my cheek. For some reason neither the cat nor I could remove the claw from my cheek and though it was really frightening I couldn't feel anything that I would call pain. The only sensation was a firm pressure on my cheek. The dream was scary enough to wake me up and I found myself laying face down, off of my pillow, with may cheek resting firmly on the mattress.

TGIF!!!
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Subway Sketches

Just a spread from my sketchbook. On the right was made at the 2nd Avenue F train station and the left was made wile riding the train home.
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And then there were four...

Tonight I watched Top Chef at Sarah's house. I think I was rooting for Hung this episode but I'm not totally positive he's my favorite, I was just so bothered by Brian's hat that I didn't know what to do with myself.

It's been narrowed down to the final four so in honor I made a quick sketch of the remaining Top Chef: Miami contestants. Casey had a really horrible picture on the Bravo! bio page so I went with a side shot from Google image and the drawing looks really crappy. I would probably be kicked off of Top Illustrator: Brooklyn for this drawing but who would be the judge, Chris Ware?

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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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Happy Anniversary!!

Oh wow, I didn't notice this as I was posting about 209 Elizabeth Street but this is the one year anniversary of my drawing blog! My first post was on September 16, 2006 and over the past year I've made 133 posts which means there should be at least as many drawings but probably a few more. I had originally intended to post a drawing every day, and I was doing so for the first few months, but eventually I fell off the wagon and never made it back on.

Recently I've been trying to make very complete illustrations which I think has taken a bit of the fun out of drawing so I think for the rest of September I'm going to try to get back into making more drawings but spending less time on each one with the goal of getting closer to a drawing-a-day.

This was a very detailed drawing of LaGuardia airport on the way out of town for my family vacation at South Bass Island in Lake Erie.

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209 Elizabeth Street

Wow, it's been over a month since my last post. Is anyone still out there? Drop a comment and let me know your still checking in every now and again.

The SVA figure drawing should be starting up again so I'm looking forward to that. This drawing is of a building in Manhattan located at 209 Elizabeth Street between Prince and Spring. I had intended on going back and spending a bit more time on this one but never got around to it, so here it is as a somewhat incomplete drawing. It's a very cool building and I was hoping to include some interesting history along with my post but the best I could find was this post about it another blog (check out the link to "more photos" for an exterior view of the building). From the old hand-painted sign I could tell it use to be a bakery but now it's some sort of gallery or antique shop.

Ok, enough talk.
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Rhino

Awhile back I made a drawing of my desk at work and the drawing started with a small sketch of a stuffed rhino on a post-it™ pad. Well I had a slow moment today and I made another drawing of that same rhino, this time with graphite.

I like this one.

Ok, off to the airport. I'm flying home to Michigan to spend time with my family. We'll be heading out to vacation on Put In Bay island in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio. I'm hoping to make a bunch of drawings so check back in a week or so to see a ton of new stuff (hopefully).

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Boat

After working late and then having a flat tyre on the way home I finally made it to "Cousins Too" for a burger with Andrew and Travis. After dinner Travis and I went on for a drink at Boat and I started my daily drawings with the above napkin.

Then I was explaining something to Travis about design and how it relates to fashion/apparel (Boring!) and I drew a t-shirt and then filled it in with a dude. The page evolved to what you see here with the addition of some bike parts (front light & brake).

Steve had the latest copy of 100 Bullets which got us talking about comic books and drawing comics. We were talking about how to tell a story with visually dramatic images and how to accomplish this task. This page was my attempt to show something with more dramatic compositions.

Night.
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