This Pie is Dry

'This Pie is Dry' | Daily Drawing 122.
King Joffrey does not like dry pie.
A quickie hand/Wacom tablet drawing.

Potty Mouth

'Potty Mouth (#$@&!)' | Daily Drawing #100.

Boxing Kangaroos

'Boxing Kangaroos' | Daily Drawing #97.
(This seemed much funnier when I thought of it in the shower this morning. The Kangaroo doesn't think much of it either.)

I'll Break You in Half! (Like a Boy)

'I'll Break You in Half! (Like a Boy)' | Daily Drawing #75
I generally keep my political opinions to myself, but this threatening quote from angry Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm was so over the top I couldn't resist. Grimm, who was being interviewed after the State of the Union address, didn't quite like the reporter's line of questioning and threatened to 'break him in half'.

Suck It Up, Buttercup!

'Suck It Up, Buttercup!' | Daily Drawing #74
I had a rough day yesterday and caught myself saying this phrase.
Boom, a drawing is born.

Tools:
Linework: Papermate Point Guard Flair Medium Point Pen
Brush Lettering: Kuretake Zig Brushables Brush Marker

Save Me!

'Save Me!' | Daily Drawing #72

Drama Llama

'Drama Llama' | Daily Drawing #70

Get a Grip!

'Get a Grip!' | Daily Drawing #52.

Captain Average Takes a Lunch Break

Today begins the Adventures of Captain Average. But first, lunch. You can't perform feats of mediocrity on an empty stomach.

YOLO (You Obviously Love Owls)

I turned a stupid, overused phrase into something meaningful.

Tools: Moleskine Sketchbook. Shot the sketch with the iPhone 4s, colorized in Photoshop (CS6).

Original sketchbook drawing:

Tuesday is Soylent Green Day

I watched the movie 'Soylent Green' last Sunday night on Amazon. When I was a kid, I thought it was the coolest movie ever. This movie ranked up there with 'Westworld', 'Logan's Run', 'Omega Man', 'Planet of the Apes' and 'Silent Running' as my favorites of the pre-Star Wars era.

I especially loved the detailed illustration on the movie posters - riot police with trucks scooping up people and putting them in the back of trucks to be carted off to who knows where.

Soylent Green was filmed in 1973 and set in the year 2022. There are 40 million people in New York. The greenhouse effect' makes it hot all year round and the only food is rations of processed colored soy crackers. A new flavor 'Soylent Green' is introduced, made of a new 'high energy plankton' - but it's in short supply and riots are frequent. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, the main character 'Thorn' (Charlton Heston) stumbles upon the Soylent Green's main ingredient.

(Spoiler Alert: "It's People!")

Tools: Sharpie and Micron pens. Scanned and colored in Photoshop.

The Meatier Meteor

This morning I woke to the news that a meteorite struck the Earth, injuring over 1000 people.

This drawing has nothing to do with that event, but it's a phrase I've been trying to find a use for since I was a kid.

So, there you go.

Happy Friday. Don't let any space junk hit you in the head tonight.

Fake Enthusiasm

Some people are just full of shit.

Tools:Pilot Precise V7 Stick Roller Ball Pen, 0.7 mm Fine Point. Colorized in Photoshop.

Kiss the Cook [Walter White from Breaking Bad]

Today's drawing is some hand-lettering featuring a caricature of Walter White from Breaking Bad.

2 weeks ago I was hit with the flu, which had me pretty much out of commission. So, while I was flat on my back, I spent some time with Walter White and Jessie Pinkman with a Breaking Bad episode marathon on Netflix.

When this show premiered in 2008, I didn't take to it right away. The main reason was that I started watching at Season 1 / Episode 4. If fans recall, Episode 4 ("Cancer Man") was where Walter reveals that he has cancer. At that time in my life, I was also going my own'cancer episode', so I wasn't real keen on watching a show about it, as my own reality was hard enough to take.

Looking back, I really wish I'd watched the first three episodes, because it's definitley up there with some of my favorite television right now (along with 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men').