Random Sketches

Just like the post title says, "Random Sketches". Thank you for your time.

Second (We think...) Coming!

Drawn yesterday before breakfast.

When I finished this I had to go to an appointment and a young Mormon guy followed me to the station asking me what I thought about Jesus coming back to Earth to sort out our troubles.

Probably for the best that I'd left my sketchbook at home.

Serious Cowboy...

Yes, it's only Friday, but I've got some sketches/drawings to post anyway.

This is another of the "newsprint sketches" with my hand a wanderin' and my brain a burblin' during those dark and desperate minutes of "coffee breaks", for those of you who wish to know these things...

July 2012 - Sketchbook

I've just started a new sketchbook.

A5 Daler-Rowney hardback, with crisp nice white cartridge paper all ready to deface...

I drew these four pages this morning. Marker pens, no pencil.

Also, I went to Leeds yesterday to see the Ronald Searle exhibition. Wonderful stuff. His originals are immaculate.

Meanwhile, over at the City Art Gallery we saw some Walter Sickert and Wyndham Lewis' fucking incredible large oil, Praxitella.

Enjoy my scribbles...

It's Your Fault, Not Mine Dept...

Don't ask...

The verse reads:

And as the day draws to a close
And Chaos reigns throughout the land,
A humble pilgrim ventures forth
As the LORD snores, "Lamp" in hand.
The humble traveller begs to know
The reason why it is that HE
Supports the Meek and Merciful,
But will not ever set them free.

Okay, here's more of the sketches that I drew in a few minutes to exorcise some of my frustration during "coffee breaks" while skulking in a cramped, crappy office.

Usually, I just draw these if I'm sitting there with a pen in my hand without any prior thoughts. Just trying to keep in touch with that part of my mind. Like a prisoner scratching on a cell wall. Melodramatic, ain't I?

Often I tear them up and throw them away, unless there's an idea that I think can be developed into a finished piece.

But, after I posted a few "survivors" last week, you said you wanted to see more.

Like I say, it's your fault this time.

Enjoy.


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"Ban The I.Q. Test!" and Other Sketches...

I haven't posted anything for a while, so I'll inflict this and the sketches below upon you all.

These are all marker sketches, done in a few minutes each on newsprint that's been recycled so many times its quality is one-up from toilet paper.

I drew these in my coffee breaks in a shitty office. Just my hand and mind wandering all over the place... There's loads of these, but I'll only post these as you haven't done anything to deserve all of 'em.

Not that I know of..?

I've also recently finished 8 comic strips for my pal, Pete Batchelor's Web comic Tales of the Sly Ditt Inn. I I'll post more info on that at the end of the month.

In the meantime, as usual, enjoy the "funny pitchurs"!

Sketches...