Intermission: Portrait of a Sleepy Hipster

A break from my Ameristory for something a little more current. This is just a quick sketch I did during work last Saturday when I had some down time. The random people heads didn't turn out well but I really like my yawning scene chick. One of my favorite parts of doing character designs are the costumes and I really love drawing hipster clothes for whatever reason.

While I Was Out Part 2: CTI Continued

Moving right along with my merry little story, after that community meeting I then joined the rest of the Corps in a little something called CTI (Corps Training Institute)One thing you'll learn about the government while working for them is that they love their cute little acronyms, I swear I almost needed flash cards to remember what all of them stood for. CTI is the 5 weeks of training that all Corps members go through before they're sent out into the field to save the world. Through out CTI we took all sorts of classes and trainings in shelter management, paperwork stuff, using power tools, and a LOT
of team building stuff. One of these team building exercises was the ropes course. Sure working together to solve rope based obstacles sounds very summer campy (teehee, it's a pun because I mean campy as in camp like but I also mean cheesey) but it was actually a lot of fun. This is a picture of my team lifting me through the spider web. I have also been keeping up with my art during CTI of course. Here's a character sketch I did for an idea I had for a comic about a Catholic High School Cheerleader who gets pregnant by means of Immaculate Conception. This is a picture of her cool hipster aunt.

Just a Sketch.

So for sure the Pirate Party picture will be uploaded tomorrow, I have it drawn out and finished I just don't have access to the scanner until tomorrow. So tonight we have a sketch from my senior year sketch book probably from around January-ish, no real story behind it, just me practicing my people.

When I'm Board.

So tonight I'm going to a pirate party and my friends Albert and Thomas's dorm so expect to see some sketches related to that on tomorrow's entry. Today however I'm uploading two sketches of comic book characters I created that I always seem to draw when I'm board. The first is a character for a comic that I've always mean to start but have never had the time to. This is Rita Appleseid, she is a witch that is part of this super hero team that is owned by a major corporation and charges money for their heroic deeds.

The next character is from my first ever comic (that I will never post do to the absolute suck of my talent at the time that I drew it.) her name is the Queen of Hearts. She was a character that my sister helped create when we were little that I built upon as the years went by. Her background story was that she was an assassin/ bounty hunter that worked for this organization all based off of playing cards called the 52 clan that's run by her mother the Joker queen.

RTA = WTF

So yesterday morning was a bad day for public transportation. For those of you who don't know me, (or anyone for that matter seeing how no one has yet to read this and make their presence known, but it's only been like four days so I'll quite the belly aching) I volunteer at the Cleveland Food Bank twice a week every Monday and Wendsday. I also take a train and a bus to get there, which leads to the ranting. Wensday morning I get on the number 37 bus at the same time I had been for the last couple of weeks. (I say the last couple of weeks because I had started to catch an earlier bus to the food bank.) Well Yesterday the bus driver decided that it would be a good day to screw with me and went the exact opissite direction. So I had to get off wait for another bus (note it's very, VERY, cold out side) to take me back to the bus station, to then get on another bus that actually would get me to the food bank. Oh, but it gets better, once I finally get there, a half-hour later than I had been (once again earlier bus, ect.) the doors weren't even open! They were locked, because whoever it was who was in charge of unlocking them had for whatever reason forgot to do so again. So I waited another 10 minutes (it still being cold outside.) until someone noticed I was outside and let me in.

The next image is a tribute to my nerdiness, because like all children of the 1990's I was (and unlike most am still) a Pokemon fan. I found out that they started putting the old episodes online so I started watching them because it's been like 10 years since I saw them (and they're a bit of a guilty pleasure) The last episode I just watched was the one where Ash gets a Squirtle after running into the Squirtle Squad so this is my tribute to that.

Something Old...

I wasn't feeling all that well today so I got a little lazy and just posted something I drew a while ago. I don't really know why I drew this, it's just a chick in a bumble bee costume, no real story behind it other than being board. I did a painting of this girl over the summer that turned out really weird so don't expect to see that anytime soon. Cooler stuff will be posted tomorrow.

Dear Ghost of Julia Child...

On the subject of blogs, last week I saw the movie Julie & Julia, which I was totally expecting to hate but ended up really enjoying it. (and not just the Meryl Streep parts) So one of the big reveals in the climax of the movie (Spoiler alert! if you haven't seen the movie yet and wish to be surprised than don't read any further) is that Julia Child really hated the blog created by Julie Powell... a lot. It got me thinking, if Julia Child really hated the blog than how crazy pissed do you think she would have been pissed if she was alive to see the movie based on it?