Avenger Bailey

This is another version of the Avengers, based off the comic strip "Beetle Bailey."

I don't like this version nearly as much as yesterday's, but it was still fun to draw. I like Beetle's Captain America. And I giggled to myself as I made Thor based off the girl character again. I'm telling you, that's what happens when you have long blonde girly hair. Iron Man is probably the weakest link of this group...I just could not figure out what to do with his face. He ended up with awkward posture.

Avenger Brown

Awwww, look at these little guys! Why is it that drawing anyone as a Peanuts character makes them infinitely more endearing?! It makes me want to sit Iron Man down on my lap and give him a hug. Look at his little Linus face! You know what I'm talking about. I love these guys. I have a big dopey grin on my face right this second as I'm typing, because I'm happy just looking at them. I love that Thor is based off of Sally. That's what happens when you have long blond girly hair. He doesn't seem to mind, though....And little Pigpen Hulk makes me smile because I didn't mean to give him such huge feet, but now that it's turned out that way, I'm glad. I decided I haven't given the Avengers nearly enough blog-attention, considering how entertaining that movie was, so they might get a few more well-deserved shout-outs this week.

My Week in Sketches

My week, via sketches:

Last Thursday, some of the kiddos and I were relaxing climbing on a hammock, 

and next thing I knew, the hammock's pillow had exploded. 

The pillow fluff became the hit of the evening and entertained the children for hours.

Once a year, just before summer, I have to take an entire day just to mail 

thousands of little paper tags to various people and groups. 

Lots of daydreaming happened this day, my annual stuff-envelopes-all-day-long day:

I babysat my housemates' children for the evening, which I love. 

We played dentist and Aladdin and danced and I got buried under pillows a lot:

Late-night hangout at a 24-hour diner with some friends that I never get to see. 

We stayed until midnight, and then I had to drive two hours home and work the next day, and it was totally worth it.

My little housemate, Addie, put a sticker on my cheek without me seeing who or what was on the sticker.

This turned into a very fun game of 20 questions, where I tried to figure out what the sticker was.

Then we played like ten more rounds. It's perfect because Addie seems to genuinely enjoy being the clue-giver and I genuinely enjoy guessing.

Mosquito Buffet

This is my life right now. Just a bunch of mosquitoes swarming around me like I'm their dinner.

And I am. I have the bites to prove it. And they just love my elbows, let me tell you...

Crazybeard

After yesterday's Katniss, I wanted to attempt a character that was a little bit more recognizable.

He's not as well-known, but that beard is certainly recognizable.

This is Seneca Crane, another character from the Hunger Games. I mentally refer to him as "Crazybeard" for obvious reasons. He looks like a real creeper with those black eyes. I would not like to run into this guy in a dark alley. Or the Hunger Games arena, for that matter.

CopyKat

I recently discovered an artist by the name of Stanley Chow, and he's amazing!

I keep looking for more and more of his artwork wherever I can find it. 

I love his style of cartoonizing people. Here are my two my favorites:

(Ursula Andress as the first Bond girl, and the Von Trapps from the Sound of Music.)

I don't get how he caricaturizes people so well when they have solid black eyes! I don't get it, and yet I love it. I just had to try a caricature or two myself. I want to be as talented as Stanley Chow. So I tried to think of someone I hadn't seen him draw yet, and I decided to go with Katniss from Hunger Games:

It's not the worst, but it still doesn't look quite look like her. But that's okay. 

I can't expect to be Stanley on the first try. And try again, I shall...

Stencil Falcon

As I've said lately, right now I'm in the process of designing a lot of memorabilia for a fake band called "Steel Falcon". It's for work. (I should put that in quotes because it's so much fun.) It's for "work". Part of my task was to create a Steel Falcon stencil (now that I'm no stranger to stencil-cutting) and this is the final product.

I like that Jesus is peeking out at the top of this picture:

 

The current state of my office's spray paint wall:

This is just about half of my spray paint arsenal:

See the bottom-middle yellow spray paint can? It has a hole in the top of it from where a BEAR BIT INTO IT. I know I'm not much of a vandal, but that should for sure earn me some street cred!