A prelim study for a comic project. Notice the skater sneakers done up as a "saddle shoe" tribute.

Drawing with...Joe Sanabria! (Check him out--he's good!)

Taking the brushpens on the road again (from the run down to San Diego to deliver the Yogi busts).

Drawn at LACMA in the dark on a fine Friday night. They were doing this summer evening live jazz thing every Friday...don't know if it's still on.

The dancing fella at right was a giant. The only people dancing. The band was a quintet I think; Luther Hughes & The Cannonball/Coltrane Project. A ton of people. Shocking to see an actual outdoor cultural thing in LA come off. Well, it was free!

Delivered two portrait busts to San Diego yesterday. On the way down I snuck into the Carlsbad Outlets and grabbed a photo on their faux Renaissance staircase. (Subject is the guru Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Swami's in Encinitas.)

UPDATE: Posted because, y'know, I sculpted it.

Forgot this one. From E.C.C.C.

Overheard: "I thought they'd have more talent here...."

A trip to the DMV. The little girl's second question was if I spoke Arabic. She was in a tooth-transition period, with just a couple of them visible. I tried to get that in, but the result looked awful--like I was deliberately trying to make her look ugly (I wasn't!). So I blacked 'em out, and instead gave her...gum smile.

p.s. both kids markedly underwhelmed by their portraits. And I agree--I always fold under that kind of pressure. Never make it as a SeaWorld/Disneyland caricaturist.

Aprés la guerre....

   Victory!

...and IT'S ON!!

Someone to fight that Barbarian....

I got into doing this series of "The Barbarian's Life..." for the back of these sketchbooks. I think barbarians are funny--esp'ly when with high foreheads and short bangs!

Stuart Ng just informed me that they sold out of their allotment of "Brushpen Breakfast" at Comic Con (hooray!).

Better still, they've asked for another ten copies. I sold 'em eleven. This is one of the "bonus" drawings I did in the back of each one (and Stuart's fave).

Another in our series of ECCC 2013 drawings.

She was a lady of a certain age, shall we say. German, I think, and dressed in this fun get-up.

Very friendly, didn't buy anything but asked if I had a biz card; when I produced one, she asked me to sign it. "You know--goot to have--just in case!"

The large fox tails made the costume, but they left me a bit...unsettled.

San Diego Comic Con is coming...I'll honor it with this sketch from Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con back in March...from the "opening minutes" (can you sense the excitement?).