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Tag Archives: sketchbook world
mr rock in sketchbook world
No one was more surprised than I was to discover that Mr. Rock was my first character who pretty much demands to appear in color. The others don’t mind it, but Mr. Rock doesn’t feel like himself without his turquoise … Continue reading
best of the drawing of the day– night badger
You’ve heard of Christmas in July? Well, welcome to Halloween in April. I started this drawing with the eyes, the ears and the costume, and the subject was pretty clearly attended to be either a humanoid vampire bat or a … Continue reading
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lucky drawings and their titles
Work, work, work, work. Oh, hello, blogkateers. How kind of you to stop by to find out whether I have been frozen solid in an ice storm or blown into Michigan in a windstorm since last we met. I appreciate … Continue reading
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a cast in search of a western: drawing of the day
One of the things that sometimes emerges in a “lucky” drawing of the day is a cast of characters for a very strange comic. (A lucky drawing is one that is not only automatic/unplanned, but also lacks pencil underdrawing; it’s … Continue reading
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best of the drawing of the day color special: blue dragon and company
Just a little drawing of a Kid, a Dog, a Dragon and a … Bird? Birdlike Creature? These are all familiar sketchbook denizens who represent the power of the imagination (sort of) and most of them seem to be having … Continue reading
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best of the drawing of the day: wolf, sheep, etc.
The title of this drawing refers to the curly wolf character in the foreground, who definitely looks like a kind of wolf in sheep’s clothing. And is almost certainly a werewolf as well, although that doesn’t come into the story. … Continue reading
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best of the drawing of the day: feathered dinosaur
I didn’t give this drawing a title in the sketchbook at the time that I made it, so now I feel perfectly free to give it an ambiguous, if not actually confusing, title as part of a blog post. Because … Continue reading
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best of the drawing of the day: lizbet, ron, and humberto
Three characters in search of a story. I’m kind of distracted by the most major of major new projects (the initial training of our latest corgi, the Floofy One, aka The Martian) so it will take a while to get … Continue reading
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best of the drawing of the day: black winter coat
Ah, the hideous persistence of the Winter Coat. When I made this drawing more than a month ago, I was pretty sure I was looking at the last weeks, maybe even the last days, of my own Winter Coat for … Continue reading
best of the drawing of the day: the moon with the sun and the stars
If the Man in the Moon was a dapper dad in a black suit, and the Sun and the Stars were his kids and the dog … I guess it would look something like this. I know that drawing is … Continue reading
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a cartoonist in Kekionga 