INKTOBER - The End - It's Over - Like Roy Orbison over, Oooooooohhver - Mr. Toad rigged the election...

Yeah, I'm a few drawings short.  I'm trying to forgive myself. I'm putting the finishing touches on the kids Fall Carnival at school...If you don't volunteer at your kids school YOU are a turd.  Make time, not excuses...Yet.

INKTOBER - Days 25,26,27 - Stank Fish Attract Crabs. Nasty Ain't Nothin New to Me

I started with the best intentions to try and give some "true" color to these crabbies,  Dungeness-ish.  But I only have one purple marker.  I also believe some subconscious level interjected control over the color mixing --The Seahawks are playing in New Orleans this week!  Mardi Gras Crabs!  

Crab is delicious.  Even friendly crab.

Study/Sketch and larger edition - what a difference quality paper can make on the blending! 

Detail...

Yes, we crab!!!! not a keeper....

Bait. Stomp those heads and release the juice.  Stop and smell what the sun has baked you....

...and a Mummy,  I went to Egypt in 2000.  So I'm an expert...

was going to have the wraps write my name in the sky but, you know, laziness....

INKTOBER: 23,24- I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Where the yellow-crown’d heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs, 

Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon, 

Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well, 

Meet Cecil. 

Booger Butt

INKTOBER - Days 20,21,22 - They Do Not Lie Awake in the Dark and Weep For Their Sins

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, 

I stand and look at them long and long. 

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, 

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, 

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, 

Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, 

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, 

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. 

Touching the acorn can lead to paralysis...for you.

It's Disco 

Ears and wings and MEATBALLS.

SaveSave

INKTOBER - Day 15,16,17,18,19 - Where the Alligator Sleeps in His Tough Pimples by the Bayou

The smoke of my own breath;
Echoes, ripples, buzz’d whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine;
My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs;

Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead—where the buck turns furiously at the hunter;Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock—where the otter is feeding on fish;
Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou;
Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey—where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail;

Some process - I only have one green Copic.  So have to fake it with some Warm Grey and Prussian Blue and yellows.  

 WTF?  yes, I know it's "Photoshopped!"

Wearing a croc skull makes anyone tougher....

INKTOBER - Days 12-14: You Eat Crow. No, You do. And Kids.

PoPo the Clown

"I just wanna, wanna, wanna........be friends....best friends."

Fart Mouth

"I fart from my mouth."

Scott

"I'm not as flammable as one may think."

Did some art docenting today with the 1st Graders...we discussed Eugène Delacroix's 'Frightened Horse' in 1st Grade art today...Girl: You call tell the horse is scared because of the lightning in the sky, which means there's thunder, too, and by the size of his eye, and he's rearing, and it's probably dark out. Boy: He's afraid of the crocodiles coming from the lake and why doesn't he have wings?

We then drew some horses using circles and triangles.  Then created little monster creepy beasties.

INKTOBER - Days 5-11 Behind, But whaddabout the Monsters, Danny?

I like characters but I also want more time.  I know full well I waste time during the day, lots of it. Except not at all. ha. deal with it.   I love my kids and love them and love them.  They may not see it as love or help or fun and I'm sure one day they will resent me, if not outright murder me.  I'm trying to break the cycle but I must admit when I see my kids principal, I am thankful she didn't have kids...yea, don't go fucking nuts.  I mean because my pops was a principal...and holy shit, can you imagine the principal's job with today's technology?  FUCK THAT.  is time a straight line? 

The perfect school is where there are no students. or teachers.  schools are bound by the burdens of linearity

continuous line drawing - don't lift your pen, pencil...etc

meh - was angry, unfinished and I've given up on this one.  just not interesting.

k, so  - started this INKtober wanting to do some mid-East stuff and started well, but fell off quickly.  I focus on the headscarves but I feel if I don't do the face then I was afraid - because the old deal was -nobody can draw a face....,,,,RIGHT??!!!!  ugh.  

INKtober - Dayz 3 & 4 - Dante Trump's Earthquake and His Three Mouths issue a PSA

Rumor has it when California falls off the coast this month from a big'ol earthquake Trump will argue  it is no longer part of the United States.  So, no Government cheese for you and your votes are now invalid.  Trump wins inland Cali and the Presidency.  VOTE EARLY CALIFORNIA!  

...or Cali stays put, yet crumbled and voter turnout is nonexistent, and, he whom-shall-not-be-named, you know, "wins."  

Kinda looks like John Madden talking about Brett Favre.

INKtober - Days 1 & 2 - Power Music. Electric Revival. Bob Your Head. Ragtop. Toad. Leda.

Holy Inktober.  Already behind.  Busy month.  Coordinating "Fall.O.Ween" Harvest carnival at kid's school, making little jewelry bracelets and necklaces etc.  SO? motivation lower and hand feels stiff.  Oh, and my nose has boogers.  I have all sorts of excuses ready...

Islamic dress.

 Is that Toad in there? Toad is not a mushroom.

Found a new sketchbook from Leda Art Supply in Kirkland, WA.  The paper is nothing unique but I like the cover and the way it's put together.