OK. I admit it. I didn’t make the bed today. But I did draw. I’ve felt that my drawing style has been too stiff, and I wanted to do something very loose — almost scribbling. As it turns out, this technique is called “scumbling”; and it was a favorite technique of mine back in the day. I had forgotten about it until it just came out of my pencil today. It more or less “just happened”.

This is a thirty-minute sketch of one of the cordless phones we have. Once again, my perspective is off. It looks like the phone is being twisted in a strange way. Also, the buttons are not positioned exactly right. On the plus side, I’m really happy with how the faceplate came out. I think I captured the look of the different materials on the phone.

Office Space is one of my favorite movies. There’s a poor guy named Milton who is crapped on at every turn. His most prized possession is his red Swingline stapler; when the company switched to Bostich, he stood his ground. Good for you, Milton. Anyway, here’s my stapler.

Just messing around with a watercolor set. The drawing was done with a Pilot G2 gel pen and the color was applied using Cotman watercolors from Winsor & Newton. The starburst effect is an artifact from the scanner in conjunction with the fact that my sketchbook is not exactly compatible with water media. I guess I’ll have to buy a watercolor pad for this kind of thing. I’ve got a lot of work to do yet on my drawing though.

Our kitty has a shoe fetish. She loves to rub her head on them, and we often find her sitting amongst the shoes in our entry way; keeping guard. She also has a sensitive stomach. Never before have the two mixed, until one morning in November when I woke to find cat vomit in one of my walking shoes. Gross, but it does make for an interesting story around this sketch of the shoe in question.