It’s been a while since I uploaded some pages from my sketchbook. No better time than now. I draw heads A LOT. I think I probably got the idea from Alex Toth, but if I’m bored, or more often when I’m doing warm ups, I’ll draw heads in my sketchbook. Here’s a couple of pages that are composite pages of some that I had scanned.
Heads 01

Heads 02

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The good people at Schmap found one of my photos of the Portland Japanese Garden so enticing, they added it to their online travelguide, which is kinda cool, I ‘spose.
If you are interested in seeing more, by all means check out my flickr gallery. And if you live in, or are visiting the Portland area, I highly recommend checking the gardens out.

Earlier this year, J Chris Campbell from Wide Awake Press invited me to participate in his Anthology Jabberwacky. He suggested I use Reggie in my contribution, and I thought that was a pretty good idea. I folded it into the Reggie story (such as it is), so here is Chapter 3, Reginald Crabapple Takes Prince Leon to Scarborough (Part 1). Like usual, I did them in one hour apiece, stream-of-consciousness-style.

Here’s the first bunch I did, they’ll get you up to speed:
Prologue: Reggie Crabapple’s Big Day
Chapter One: Reginald Crabapple Goes to the Stillwater Swap Meet
Chapter Two: Reginald Crabapple’s New Assignment
I picked up Crogan’s March this year at Fluke! from the super nice guy Chris Schweizer. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and thought I’d do a drawing of the main character.
You can find Chris at his Curious Old Library.

For the last little bit I’ve been working a concept that started out in my sketchbook a couple of years ago of a bird riding character who I was going to do as a webcomic. I did a handful of pages, thinking I’d do twenty or so before I would start posting. It didn’t take that many for me to realize that it wasn’t going to work. The main guy is close to another character that I ran across; and the more I thought about the story, the more I realized I didn’t have much to say with the characters, so I decided to scrap it and move on to something else.
The following are the pages that I completed:





I’m a big fan of Grant Wood’s landscapes. I thought it would be fun to do a study of The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover. I gotta do more landscapes, and more color stuff. It took me forever to color this thing.

When I was at the Stumptown Show in April one of the minis I picked up that I really enjoyed was Corey Lewis’ Layered Jacket. Here’s my version of the title character.

Good buddy Mike Maihack asked me to do a pinup for his comic Cleopatra in Spaaace!
If you aren’t reading Cleo on a regular basis, you are really missing out. It’s one of the best webcomics around.
Last weekend I went to Natchez Trace State Park in Tennessee for the lovely wife’s family reunion. I did a couple of drawings in my sketchbook while I was there. As usual they were done in Micron Pigma pen in my Piccadilly sketchbook.
Footbridge Across Cub Lake (6/12/10)

Cub Lake Lodge (6/13/10)
