Local foot freedom crusader, Kriss, contacted me to draw a cartoon to accompany his latest blog entry regarding the shaming that barefoot people are subjected to, particularly on airlines. This Scarlet Letter-inspired comparison was the result:
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Combining the prompts from three different October drawing challenge lists (BAT from Mabs Drawlloween Club and BAIT from Inktober and the very specific, yet still somehow unclear: “Pumpkin Patch Precinct” from Drawlloween 2019) results in this colorful, yet inscrutable illustration from me:
Combining the prompts for Day 2: #Catacombs from Mabs Drawlloween Club, #Mindless (see how the skull have no minds/brains in them, even the fresh one) from Inktober, and #Dracula’s Yard Sale from the Drawlloween list. Hey, how do you expect Dracula to draw more victims into his catacombs if he […]
Once again, I’m going to participate in an October drawing challenge to push creativity and improve skills in different types of media styles (and it’s kind of fun to have an open-ended assignment each day to do on the iPad). This year, I’m combining prompts from different Drawlloween lists: RING […]
This week’s new issue of Mountain Xpress (the local alt-weekly paper for Asheville, NC) features another cover illustration from me. I was tasked to come up with a concept to illustrate the story about the history of the monuments located in an old local church. This assignment was tricky, because the Confederate […]
This week’s new issue of Mountain Xpress (the local alt-weekly paper for Asheville, NC) features another cover illustration from me. I was tasked to come up with a concept to illustrate the story about the vast amount of election campaign contributions for the two local district representatives that come from […]
Available today, in the usual places, is the new issue of the Asheville Alt-Weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress. This week’s issue feature a cover with my illustration, conceived and created for cover story about the multiplicity of local breweries in the area. Here is the drawing as submitted, before the […]
Today is Day 31 of the month-long January drawing challenge to do a caricature of a specific person each day. Today was Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, and I had trouble getting her likeness for some reason. Looking at even photos of her , she looks different in each one with different […]
The penultimate day of Caricature Resolution 2019 is here. Day 30 brings the Colombian singer, Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, to be precise), whose hit song “Hips Don’t Lie” has been verified by both orthopedists and a polygraph. This cartoon-style caricature, using colored charcoal brushes in Procreate, mostly exaggerated her […]
Day 29 of the monthlong celebrity caricature challenge, Caricature Resolution 2019, is here, and the subject of the day is multi-award-winning actress, Meryl Streep After the past two days of highly-rendered caricatures, I wanted to do a looser, sketch-type of style on this one. The thing is, I didn’t want […]