Feelin' Salty

'Feelin' Salty' | Daily Drawing #349
Everyone on both sides is feelin' quite salty after the election.

Tools: Adobe Draw / iPad Pro / Apple Pencil. Background texture added in Photoshop.

Hamburger Helper

'Hamburger Helper' | Daily Drawing #288

Day 5, the final day of the 'Meat Week' series.
So many questions came to mind as I drew this:

What's with the monkey's outfit?
Why doesn't the monkey just eat the damned burger?
And why is there no tomato on that sandwich?

Sometimes there's no rhyme or reason to what winds up on the paper. It is what it is.

This series was fun to do. I really didn't plan these out in advance and I can't spend a great deal of time illustrating them. I'd usually start in the morning playing with words and phrases until something would click. If I was lucky, an idea would stick and I'd at least get the concept and the lettering sketched out before starting my day. Then I'd come back to it at night and do the ink and and color, usually posting at around 10pm. I like working with constraints, like a theme (and time), but I starting sweating it out by Wednesday, because I didn't want to post a dud and I certainly wasn't going to bail out on the theme.

I'm working on some ideas for future series, in the meantime I'll be back to posting my usual random themed daily drawings.

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Tools: Kuretake Bimoji Felt Tip Brush Pen, Wacom Intuos Tablet

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Achin' for Bacon

'Achin' for Bacon' | Daily Drawing #284

After a brief hiatus, the daily drawing series is back.
This week's theme is: MEAT!

Tools: Kuretake Bimoji Felt Tip Brush Pen, Wacom Intuos Tablet

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Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants

“Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants” - from Michael Pollan's Seven Words and Seven Rules for Eating.

The posting of this drawing is not a coincidence, as I've decided to spend this month re-examining how I eat. And what better month than the awful, cold and gloomy February to do it. I eat pretty well (for the most part) and exercise but the holidays are a great excuse to slack off. I don't want to turn around in May and see that my shorts are a lil' snug. It's not a nice look.

Eating properly isn't that hard, it just takes a little more planning and a lot of discipline. I'm keeping a food diary to keep tabs on what I eat for the next month, cutting back on beer (sad face) and cutting out the junk. Wish me luck!

The seven rules according to Pollan are as follows:

Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "’What are those things doing there?”" Pollan says.
Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with fresh foods when it goes bad.
Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. "There are exceptions -- honey -- but as a rule, things like Twinkies that never go bad aren't food," Pollan says.
It is not just what you eat but how you eat. "Always leave the table a little hungry," Pollan says. "Many cultures have rules that you stop eating before you are full. In Japan, they say eat until you are four-fifths full. Islamic culture has a similar rule, and in German culture they say, “Tie off the sack before it's full.”
Families traditionally ate together, around a table and not a TV, at regular meal times. It's a good tradition. Enjoy meals with the people you love. "Remember when eating between meals felt wrong?" Pollan asks.
Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. In the U.S., 20% of food is eaten in the car.

Illustration details: Hand-lettered, scanned and recolored in Photoshop. Watercolor paper background. There was minimal cleanup in Photoshop to keep the loose, hand lettered feel.