the mengshui

Kate Beaton makes drawing Wonder Woman fun.

I copied all these from the excellent Hark, a Vagrant.

Except for this chubby Superman. I stole him from somewhere else.

I found this thing today and filled out the form but I’m not sure if I’m registered.

So, anyway… owls!

I found myself doodling owls a lot last year.

For no good reason.
But now I have a reason, kind of, so I’m drawing more.

I wanted to draw a barn owl.

Sharpie!

Oil pastels!

It came to this.

That last one was inspired by this. Oh, then there was this one.

It’s catching:

Watching this video of Jim Woodring drawing Frank with such care and precision made me realize I need to take more time with some of my characters. This penguin particularly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlttmnNnf14

And look!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/n5IY5A1mHBI

I don’t know what the hell I’m doing with watercolors. That is, I know what I’m doing with them, I want to know what I’m doing with them, I just don’t know what I’m doing when I’m doing them. Anyway, inspired by this:

street scene

I don’t know how to translate the moments of my days into pictures and words. How would Lewis Trondheim do it?