Bad Drawings of People I like

When I was bored and had a pen out, be it on a train, the plane, or waiting for our food, I tended to draw Lizzie & Kelly- the quality of likeness is um, highly variable :D.

Bring me more fish!

These are all drawings from when we had fish and chips in a pub on our second night in Amsterdam.


The ubiquitous dutch shop/restaurant cat. He was more interested in the fish and radiator than he was in us.


Not particularly good likenessess of LIzzie and Kelly.

Brussels, PART ONE!

Besides waffles, chocolates and frites, Belgium's other great national product is the bande dessinee (drawn strip, literaly) or the comic. Brussels in particular is covered in comic murals and is home to the Belgian Comic Strip Center, which of course we had to visit (and take ridiculous pictures in). One of the striking things about the franco-belgian (Belgium has both dutch and french as the official languages, so the cultural & geographic proximity to france lends itself to an interchange of creators) comics is that it seems to be seen much more as a medium, rather than a genre- here, comics tend to conjure up the idea of superman or batman, with autobio or at least non spandex comics being less mainstream.

I bought a postcard of Beccasine who, according to our friend wikipedia, was the first female protagonist of her own comic back in 1913 & an influence on the later TinTin - she's an amelia bedelia type clumsy maid, and I just think her design is cute.


These are just some cute pages from a comics magazine I bought in the train station- They're fun, and I love that they're stylisticaly different but still valid. The top reminds me of some of the stuff Lucy Knisely does.
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And here's some silly pictures from the museum itself-I have a ton of stuff from brussels, so there'll be some more posts on this soon :D

Voyage au EURODISNEY

Disneyland paris- I don't even know where to start! It was a really bizzare mix of american kitsch and sensory overload, and was actually alot of fun- I managed to get a few quick sketches of the other park go-ers, but there was no one as outrageous looking as I suspect some of the people at the american parks would be.




And here's me and lizzie in the obligatory mouse ear shot- note the tiaras and bedazzling.

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl

For Lizzie & Vickie's bday I did little (about 5 by 7) portraits of them as their namesake Queens Elizabeth and Victoria, cause it seemed like a fun idea. They threw a party with their friend Heather so I made her a card- my favorite heather facts are a)she's a medical lab technician and b)she does the best robot dance ever, so hence the funky robot with an erlenmeyer flask.

Which one of these things are not like the other

Went to the met with lizzie, vickie, frank & meredith, and despite a case of rusty can't-draw-itis, I did some sketches. The next morning and me and the savanellas had brunch at wobbles, and I got colour to the placemat. They are, as you can see, french toast.

Wednesday Night Folks

Regularly Scheduled Wednesday Night Post

Weds Night Drawers

Happy Birthday Savanellas!

They generally prefer to keep this on the dl, but did you know Lizzie & Vickie did a semester abroad at Hogwarts?

Drawings from the wednesday session (including a blind contour, which i haven't done in forever), a doodle of lizzie, and an Oscar wilde cartoon; I've started re-reading him a little bit this week.

Last saturday I went with Lizzie & Vickie (who are much cuter than I drew them here, sorry guys) up to the Norman Rockwell Museum. It was alot of fun & the museum itself was neat- lots of paintings, a special exhibit about graphic novels, and the least museum-y looking museum go-ers I've ever seen (more than a few mullets and stretch pants), plus the ticket agent was an old guy in a pink buttondown and blue bowtie. My only quibble was with the informational video, which called Rockwell 'both an artist AND an illustrator' as if the two were mutually exclusive.
Looking back, its kind of funny to see how much I've stolen from rockwell- pictures within pictures, red headed kids = instant comedy, etc- he even did sequential image type things like this.

Good Company

These are sketches of just some of the folks who were along on the trip- the lovely & extremely talented Vickie and Lizzie Savanella, who were crazy fun to live with (you should only see the drawings I can't put up here ;D), as well as meghan, lauren, arianna, melinda, marianne, kaitlyn and the always fun brendon-paolo-ricardo trio.