Stay Dry & Have a Cup of Tea

Happy Earth Day! (from The Intrepid Pug Explorer!)

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Sometimes you're just doing an Earth Day drawing and you create a new character.

He's super serious here.

The Intrepid Pug Explorer @2015 CS Jennings

Long Faced Cat

I am totally digging on animals that are mostly face right now.

Sketchbook : White Rabbit

He's late, you know.

Corgi Type Thing (And Two Other Corgi Like Things)

Sketchbook time!

I was noodling in the sketchbook and this fella showed up. If there was color, you would see he has a long nose ... but really. He is sort of corgi, but missing the corgi thing that makes a corgi a corgi. Probably what I would do were I do take this to final is stretch him out a bit and turn his head so we could all see that super sweet corgi nose. Corgi!

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Other Corgis I Have Drawn

For a corgi-owning friend's card.
(Oops. This one has a tail.)

Strangely, this is the study for the card above.
(Sans tail. I don't know what happened.)

Rodan!

Rodan sketch from a sketch throw down with some buds.

(He is bring the "pain" not the "paw.")

Prep Animals

We gathered around coffee and our sketchbooks. There was a photo of a store window somewhere in the northeast full-on representing preppy duds. Prep animals made their way out of my pencil and onto the page. (I guess the second one from the top is a deer? No clue what the thing with the afro is.) Scope those anchor shorts!

Godzilla-ing

Deadline took a little longer tonight. 

I took a break to sketch some Godzillas. 

(Just development, none of these guys are where I want him to be.) 

Thanks for the inspiration David DeGrand.

Bits : Drawing T-Rex

I snarl as I draw t-rex's ugly mug. 

(I regularly make the faces I am drawing, though there is no mirror nearby.)

I love that the t-rex mouth is an eruption of teeth.

Muffin Madness

Found this in the sketchbook.

Con Sketchin : The Beast (fan art)

This last weekend I had a table at Austin Comic Con (Wizard World.) Sitting in one spot over three days, things happen. The following posts are a brief visual journal of my time.

Surrounded by comic book characters, it was time to try my hand at one I'd never drawn. (I haven't drawn many.)

The BEAST!!!!!

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Con Sketchin : New Sketchbook : First Drawings

I'd filled up my sketchbook. As I opened the brand new sketchbook the binding cracked. I pulled out my pen. Paused for a moment. Then I ruined the sketchbook. (If it seems like there's lots of unused space, it's because super secret Notes To Self were removed.)

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Con Sketchin : Smokey Bear

The Smokey Bear PSA's were an important and nostalgic part of my childhood. After finding a sweet vinyl Smokey (AT THE CON!), it was time to try my hand. Don't think for a second I am done with this project. (Sketches posted in chronological order.)

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Con Sketchin : Passersby

This last weekend I had a table at Austin Comic Con (Wizard World.) It was a wonderful time. I met some really great people. I saw 45 Robin costumes. Once and while someone would pass my table and I would need to sketch them because they were awesome.

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 He'd painted his own helmet. Had a shield. And then a blazer and jeans. 

(Hello, Avengers movie. New costume idea.)

There were two steampunk groups who had tables, so there was 

a lot of steampunk. The costumes were really well done. 

Turns out my favorite genre is steampunk cowboy.

 He looked too bummed to be wearing such a great hat.

This guy's mustache was dope. I told him so. 

He seemed unsure what to do with my compliment.

A small representation of the steampunk ladies.

This guy didn't walk by my table, but was most likely 

inspired by the glut of goggles that did.

BUSTS : Lions and Bears

chubby rockabilly lion.

panda distressed by hat.

rockin the hoody.
(from sketchin with pals in coffee shop.)

Chillin with some sketch peeps.

lady's man.

Monster Art 2 : The Hill, Rough 1

Rough: Paul Bunyan, Ax Riding

As I move into deadline land, 3 weeks to the final of the second Jacob Wonderbar book, I won't be doing many finishes for the blog. As with most everything I've done here in the last two months, I wanted to take concepts further. Here's a quick sketch--it's got obvious problems, foreshortening on that arm, for one--for a Paul Bunyan drawing. It's called Ax Ride.

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Dumb Koalas

Sometimes, you are trying, and failing, to draw some pugs.

When all the sudden, this koala medieval adventurer shows up.

And then you think, hey, what if, like, he was jumping all climatically and stuff.

MEGACORN!

I will probably take him to finish, but for now, the sketch.