Sketch of the Day: Mother’s Day Doodles

on May 8, 2011
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mother's day line-up doodle

More doodles . . .

more mother's day doodles

I guess I come across as a little mean to Calatoria Themis. I’d have that that expression too if I were her. It probably frightens passersby. Maybe if she smiles more and gets Cynthia to fluff up her curls higher she can net a nice widower businessman and get married again, instead of having to rely on her husband’s illegitimate daughter and her creepy, financially-strapped cousin. That is, if she doesn’t end up just moving to Rome to stay in the imperial court with her new bffs. That is, if, like, a volcano doesn’t obliterate everything first. That is.

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Wedding of the (First) Century

on April 29, 2011
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It’s all weddings, all day, and I’ll admit I’m a little whiny I won’t get a fairy-tale wedding and just omfbbq, news stations, please stop talking about this wedding on every news broadcast we don’t even know these people and besides I live in a totally different country. Er, but I do hope you enjoyed watching the wedding if you find celebrity weddings fun. If not, then for your delight (?) while we all continue to wait for this story to proceed, click here to begin a rerun of clearly the most significant wedding of this or any century. Or at least of this webcomic.

Technicolor Wedding

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Sketch of the day: My life could use some fixative

on March 26, 2011
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Work has been DESTROYING me. Thankfully, rosefox coaxed me out to a museum exhibit last week, or I might have imploded. I’ll post a few little sketches from that outing when I get them scanned, but in the meantime… the pen of the day is a pencil. Or, rather, a brand of pencils.
MONO Mus

The Tombow Mono is supposed to be one of the 3 or 4 best drawing pencils in the world (along with—so I am told—the Uni-Ball Hi-Uni, The Uni-Ball Penmanship, and the Staedtler-Mars Lumograph). The hard 4H pencil lays down a line that looks more like a 2H Staedtler-Mars to me. I have some Uni-Ball Hi-Uni pencils, but I haven’t taken them out for a spin yet. Lucky for me, the Tombow pencils cost half the price at the local art store as listed on the usually reliable online sources, so I could nab a few yesterday to play with.

These pencils felt odd at first—very smooth on the page, like working with pastels. Writing with them feels a smidge peculiar, maybe because the tactile feedback seems odd. But it’s really nice to draw with. This pencil wants to make you a better artist; clearly that’s its sole goal in life. That, and talking you into buying fixative.

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