Old Mac Donald.

I teach a sophomore class called Experimental Workshop at the Hussian School of Art. The whole point of the class is to make the students think outside the box. Most of the time we are creating 3 dimensional pieces but every so often I have them do an illustration. I start off by giving them a list of 58 animals/objects that Old MacDonald and his family are moving. The experimental side of this illustration is to draw everything that is on the list but to draw it using only INK. No pencil or research is allowed. They are given roughly 3 hours to complete.

Last year I decided to do one and here's what I was able to put together. I found that the hardest part of this was keeping the proportions right and just trying to plan ahead for what was coming next. There is some bad drawing here, and this piece is pretty big (6 x 22") that I had to take a photo of it, so please forgive the quality.

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Update: I found a away to scan it in using Adobe Bridge's Photo merge!

Washington's tomb

I drew this back in June when I visited the tomb in Mount Vernon, VA. I wish I had more time but I had to cut the visit short. It really is a beautiful place to visit.

More Psycholinguistic Technologies stuff.

I posted some of these earlier. You'll note the use of the same backgrounds used throughout these sets. I did this in order to cut down on production time and to make it easier for the viewer to quickly point out the differences in the scenarios when using the program.

I discovered in this first set that I really like to draw sad dogs, especially ones that have just gotten into trouble.

The design of this hideously ugly dress is actually based on one that a friend owns, but I won't tell.

I also love to draw grumpy cats.

Although I hate to draw hippies.

You can see Drew Phillips in the top right hand corner of this one. He helped me with the coloring on some of these.

Old fang.

Recently I noticed that some blogging illustrators took to drawing their, "teenage-selves." I went the other route...

Illiterate man.

I made this on the train coming home from teaching a few years ago...

Great Falls, VA.

My wife travels for a living and occasionally I accompany her on her trips. A few weeks ago I went with her to the DC area and visited Great Falls National Park on the Virginia/Maryland border. I sat in the gorge for a few hours and drew some of the dramatic scenery with my brush pens. The top drawing here is out of my comfort zone but I think it came out nice (for my benefit anyway).

1776.

This year the Hussian School of Art (where I teach) is moving into the Bourse building which is located right next to Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and the Ben Franklin House (to name just a few of the Historic building in the Old City area of Philadelphia). I have always loved history and now I will be surrounded by it.

Having just finished 1776 by David Mc Collough, my appreciation for what those ragtag band of men accomplished knows no bounds. It really is remarkable.

See you in 4 years, London!

Here is more from the series of goofy Olympic drawings in my sketchbook. Most of these are nonsensical drawings that I do while not trying to think all that much.

I've got to tell you, if you missed the presentation of the Olympic flag to the Mayor of London during the closing ceremonies you missed the best part of the olympics. He was a mess.

I have no idea why I drew a winter sport, but here you go.

And I would really like to try out something like this...

For the Ladies...

The best thing this guy ever did was not clip his finger nails.

Olympics

My wife and I have been watching the Olympics since they started on Friday. As is my custom with sports of any kind, I get bored so I open my sketchbook and start drawing.