Day #14.Portrait of a Pet(s)

• Misery [Age 18]; she's a flippin' Ninja.
• Omen [Age 9]; she's a goddamn pillow.
• Id [Age 71/2]; she's the kindest, dumbest, gentlest pile of black fur you’d ever meet. Sucha shame there's such stigma about black cats, racists!

Day #13.A Freaking Baby

Tamir’s Child + a Nymph from Cirque Du Soleil; Allegria.

Day #12.An Elderly Person

Fleur + an Nostalgic Old Bird from “Cirque Du Soleil; Allegria”. Maybe a cheat, since their features are exaggerated to begin with but since we’ve been watching this DVD for the past few days, its hard to pull inspiration from anywhere else.

Day #11.Super Villain

When it comes to “Villains” there is no one more villainous than Hilter… except I don’t want to draw him, so instead I’ve drawn Charlie Chaplin (from ‘the Great Dictator’), because he is still rather “Super”.

Day #10.Super Hero

Charlie Chaplin was much more than just Super and he has/will always been a Hero to me.

Day #9.Siamese Twins

First thought; it could only be of Ping + Jing [from Big Fish], partly because for Twins, conjoined or otherwise, they've got such different countenance its equally disarming as it is charming ...but mostly because they end up with Wandering Poet Laureate/Turned Bank Robber/Turned Wall Street Tycoon played by Steve Buscemi, which is a level of awesome I could never capture on paper.

Day #8.Scene From A Movie

Having just watched "Inception" for the second time, it's difficult to entertain the prospect of drawing of a scene from any other movie... but then comes the tougher choice of which scene, since I kinda love them all.

So, here is 13-hours of straight quick work, including a bit of something from nearly every scene, only not spoiler-y (if you can imagine such a thing!)

CLICK thru to see the individual sketches on tumblr

• The Shade
• The Extractor
• The Mark
• The Forger
• The Pointman
• The Architect
• The Tourist
  

Day #7.Hybrid Animal

Up till an hour ago, not a damn thing came to mind, until I saw SciFi Channel's trailer promos from ComicCon2010 and among them was "Sharktopus"(?!). It's not the it inspired, it's that the concept confused me. Because if Sharks can only see shapes through shadow... well, honestly, wouldn't they just scare the crap out of themselves if they were part Octopus? I think, yes...

Day #6.What's In Your Bag?

Most common items found in every bag I own; 1) Fleur De Lis 2) packets of Sugar and 3) specialized stationary… possibly a RedBull. To think, this is my tiniest bag, still pretty full-up with nerdist chaos <3

For a change of pace and medium, I borrowed the schoolroom and its supplies, which was a good idea in every way except execution. Believe me, the last thing you want is children poking through your things while you’re focused on trying to capture “still life”.
Hardest.Theme.Yet.

Day #5.Childhood Memory

My earliest childhood memory is having been mauled by a dog at age 2. I didn't mind very much cuz I loved that dog. I've loved no other dog since. Seriously, total cat-person... and now it makes sense.

Day #4.Redesign Book Cover

I always resented how drab Salinger's Book Covers were. I could never hate the man, but he sure made resenting him easy. Only "Catcher" had a variant cover, but that did little for me since "Franny & Zooey" was always my favorite of his works. See?

Note: Favoritism!

Day #3.Most Recent Dream

I rarely remember dreams, when I do they're all just nightmares about having a desk-job again ^^;

However, THIS is a doodle of a story I cooked up last week, while trying to put someone to sleep. It's about three monsters who carry a world made of glass and shadow, and the tiny visitor who passed through unharmed. I guess some of us don't need sleep to dream.

Day #2.Imaginary Friend

This is JM and this is his FAILED* attempt at being equal parts "fierce + fanciful".
I feel he mostly looks like he can't get out from behind a glass door. ^^;

Day #1.Self Portrait

I have eagerly/foolishly gotten on-board with this 30 Day Drawing Challenge. So here it goes...