Consensual Tentacle Halloween Sketch 01

Thor's Day Sketch 03

Consensual Tentacle sketch 03

OK stop me if you have heard this one; an impotent robot, a cyclops lady, a struggling punk artist, and a satyriasis octopus walk into a bar ...

Consensual Tentacle sketch 02

Consensual Tentacle sketch 01

Me at 3 or 4 Years Old

Thor's Day Sketch 02

Two Different Kinds of Monsters

Getting Carried Away

Chowder and Panini

(Laura as Panini and Me as Chowder)

Halloween sketch 04

Thor's Day Sketch 01

Halloween sketch 03

Halloween sketch 02

Halloween sketch 01

Christmas in October sketch 05

(My Grandfather as Scrooge, My parents as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, My Brother as the Ghost of Christmas Present, and Laura and me as the Ghosts of Christmas Future)

Christmas in October sketch 04

(My Grandfather as Scrooge and my Parents as the Ghosts of Christmas past)

Christmas in October sketch 03

(my Grandfather as Scrooge and Laura and me as the Ghost of Christmas Future)

Christmas in October sketch 02

(My brother as the Ghost of Christmas Past and my Grandfather as Scrooge)

Christmas in October sketch 01

(My Grandfather as Father Time and my new Cousin Reece as Baby New Year)

Bloody Blade Bunny

Thursday's Dreams of Beards 1

Tattoo Snake Study 1

Raven Study 2

Raven Study 1

If Nietchez was Reincarnated as a Rat...

Fat Guy On A Little Scooter

Maneki Neko Samurai

The Squid Who Loved a Sperm Whale

My First Shishi

This blog will probably have the most text because this is a sketch blog, there will be nothing more then sketches, I hope to populate it with one sketch each day.

This weekend my parents, Laura and I went to The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. In the gift shop I spotted a book titled "The Old Man Mad About Drawing" (Francois Place). This book is a kids book about a small child and how he meets Hokusai (best know for The Wave in "36 views of Mount Fuji"). Hokusai takes the boy in and teaches him all about the art of wood block printing and about being an artist. I thought it was a nice story that was both very heart warming and informative. I would recommend picking it up. To get back to why this is relevant for this blog, in the story Hokusai said that he started every day by drawing a Shishi, which is a Chinese lion. I thought this sounded like a really cool idea so I though I would try and start my days by doing a sketch.

So here’s my first one; a Shishi.