They Say It's Your Birthday...

Here's some birthday art I've quickly whipped up recently for friends on Facebook... all drawn and colored 100% digitally, using a Ugee drawing pad. None of these are caricatures of real people, just misbegotten souls hastily pulled out of my imagination--

I've also done a few quickie doctored birthday photos, too, but I'll only put up one of those... since this one involved an actual collage of eight separate picture elements to form a composition, rather than merely dropping a cake in front an already-existing single photo.

Smoking Holes

Here's some rough sketch ideas I had for what would become the illustrated header for the "Smoking Holes That Were Once My Eyes..." blog--

 

 


 I liked this one, particularly...

 I did a tighter penciled version,  but some things were "off" about it, so I started again from scratch

 This version, below, was nearly the final one, but I wasn't happy with the glasses; they were in the way, and I screwd them up a bit while inking them. Now, if this was a paying gig for someone else, I would've found a solution with the glasses... but for this, I decided to skip 'em. I put the drawing, and the launch of the blog itself, on the back burner for awhile.

Here's the finished version, in black & white. It made sense to go simpler and even more cartoony. The hands are a bit funky, but are adequate for this. I was eager to color it.

The finished piece, colored in Photoshop--

 

Late-Night Doodles...

Not thinking much, just letting the pencil go where it may, across a notepad, 'round midnight...