Way behind on Dr. Sketchy’s material, so I figured I’d take advantage of last night’s session as an excuse to post a couple of older ones too.  First, this week’s fruits:

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Matthew dr sketchy, figure drawing, sketches

(read from right to left, like our brethren from the East)

Matthew fullmetal alchemist, stuff i like

I owe this blog an update, but for now, I want to point out that if you’re not keeping up with Jim Mahfood—and in particular his webcomic LA Inkstains—then you’re really missing out:

Probably some more Dr. Sketchy’s stuff coming imminently.

Matthew mahfood, stuff i like

• I was inspired by Paul Pope’s philosophical waxings on ‘design containers’ (via Warren Ellis).
• This made me chuckle, and I don’t even think you have to know the song it’s based on to enjoy it (via Metalsucks).
• And this struck me dumb with both its beauty and my relative weakness in the Force.

Matthew leinil francis yu, paul pope, stuff i like, the belly of the whale

Lisl and I re-watched The Big Lebowski recently, which prompted me to draw this at Thursday’s Drink and Draw:

Thursday was a madhouse. I get the feeling I’ve started attending Drink and Draw right about the time it’s metamorphosizing into something new…

Matthew drink n draw, sketches

I’ve never done one of these post-Con swag pictures before, so this is truly a momentous occasion!

Highlights so far include Nathan Fox’s sketchbook and Becky Cloonan’s Minis, plus the news that Richard Starkings is reprinting the Sleeze Brothers (and his patience with my childhood reminiscences). Surprise finds were Kevin Cannon’s Far Arden and Enrico Casarosa’s The Venice Chronicles, but I have yet to really pay either of them the attention they deserve. Also looking forward to cracking into Carl: the Cat That Makes Peanut Butter Sandwiches by Jim Mahfood. Also scored some sweet Black Metal art by Chuck BB, and a few other bits and bobs I might show later.

Matthew comic con, stuff i like

Between moving apartments and Comic Con, I’ve fallen a little behind here.  I decided to consolidate some of the intervening output into this one post, starting with some drawings from the last Dr. Sketchy’s Los Angeles:

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Matthew dr sketchy, drink n draw, figure drawing, sketches

Went to Drink N Draw LA for the first time last night.  Met some good peoples, drank some beers, did some drawing:

Tired Tetsuo

Bad Surgery

What I observed of all the talented artists there is really driving me to work on my figure construction/proportion.  Must dig out one of those ‘heads high’ charts.

Matthew drink n draw, sketches

The City Quiet as Death by Jon Foster (from the Art Department via Ectomo).

Matthew cthulu, stuff i like

Lisl spied this new mural dedicated to Silverlake’s famous Walking Man (who is actually a doctor) on one of her walks to the yoga studio.  The other day I accompanied her on one such jaunt to snap and stitch this photo of it.  Yes, he really is that tan.  It’s on Sunset Blvd, just West of Silverlake and the Silversun plaza (here), if you’re interested in checking out the real thing for yourself.

Walking Man Mural (click to embiggen)

The Silverlake Walking Man also appears as one small part of the mural decorating Micheltorena Elementary School, further West on Sunset, so he must be understood as the meta-motif, uniting not just the representative scheme of this one mural, but (soon) ALL murals…

Matthew mural, photo, walking man