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.

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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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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.

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

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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…

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I am finally restarting this blog in its latest incarnation as an accumulation of art and sketches. By happy coincidence, Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art Skool has just been similarly resurrected here in Los Angeles by the fine folks at Baby Tattoo, and so I begin with the fruits of last night’s figure-drawing session at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City. Here are a couple of 20-minute sketches of the lovely Danni Doll:

Danni Doll (click to embiggen)

Danni Doll

A challenge was issued to Horror-fy Danni (in honour of her role as Fangoria’s new Spooksmodel) during one of the 10-minute poses, which I answered with some rather hurried zombification (below).  This sketch was one of those picked to win a prize, and I walked off with a copy of Miss Mindy’s Sassy Paper Doll Bonanza.  Miss Mindy herself was in attendance, and was kind enough to sign it for me.  She, like everyone else at the event, was super-friendly and cool.  Can’t wait until the next meeting!

Zombie Danni Doll

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