BLUH WHALE!...

This emerged on a page of of brown craft paper a while back... the photoshop is really minimal.. I actually fiddled some colored pencils in with the inks on the here Blue Whale. Stay cool everyone...

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HOORAY for the D.I.A!!

So, after much tension yesterday. I learned that the millage for the Detroit Institute of Arts has PASSED! The door of that fine museum will continue to be open to the public... I couldn't be happier or more eager to get back home so I can do some drawings there...

A quick thank you to my friends in Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne County. Who got out and voted to keep this Historic Landmark alive within the City of DETROIT.

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THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS...

There is a vote going on today to keep the Museum open.. The though of it closing is really hard for me to handle. Made an image to reflect what I'm feeling right now..

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There's a BEAR!

Yeah I need to get offa' my butt again here... I've been drawing, Sure.
Just need to post some more of it here, yah know. Get my artwork seen by someone other then just myself. Been a while since I'd drawn a bear so here's one.

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Time to get Cooking.

Hey all,

Just a quick hello from the ol' Beers an' Bears because I've been a bit aloof of late with posting. It certainly has been on the warm side lately and that generally tends to keep me off the computer. Instead I favor of a cold drink and a sketchpad by the nearest fan or shady tree in weather like this. Beyond that the humidity and heat make me pretty sleepy, Which brings me to the art of this post...

On Monday, I awoke from a fitful evening of sleep to face the work week. Normally, my phone will sound the morning wake-up call (and following snooze alarms) to wrest me from my bed.... But I hadn't heard it. So, I got up. Upon getting dressed, I realized that I didn't have my phone. After a brief search it materialized underneath my bed. I figured I must have knocked it onto the floor, it does happen sometimes.

More interesting than finding my phone on the floor was finding that I'd received a text from my friend Brendan in Rhode Island earlier that same morning. The text simply read,

"I think you need to draw Walter White before Sunday on the blog."

So I did.
Later that day I scrounged a bit of ref and got down to a bit o' digital painting. I'm a fan of Breaking Bad and have actually painted Walt a few times before (three times I think) and figured I'd have another go at Mr. Cranston's MUG. On the whole I dig how the image came out... I tried to keep the paint rough and limit my brushes down to one or two. In the end I had to keep things simpler for the sake of time. So, the composition got truncated and I incorporated some Blue Meth. I might try to do a series of images like this...It was fun.

I'll see about compiling some of the work in progress here for the next post on the ol' blog. But, that might be a few days. For now I wanna wish everyone visiting the blog a safe and happy summer, and hope that you'll all enjoy the Season Premiere of Breaking Bad this Sunday evening.

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Bear with a Beer...

Sorry I've been away for so long... I have been drawing and paying the bills here so that I have food and electricity along with the rent required for my domicile... HOWEVER, I was SHOCKED when I realized that I've neglected drawing bears lately, and I also am having a beer at the moment... So I bring this quickie lil' bear with booze image...

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FISH AN' CHIPS!

When I was but a lad, my folks would make the occasional Friday night into a fish and chips outing... This usually meant a casual automobile trip downtown to either Fergie's or Milroy's... Both of them where good for a nice bit of fried fish and some chips...
Sadly, I'm probably not getting fish and chips with my folks tonight... Instead I'll post up this little Golem scribble... Eating a fish so juicy sweet..

Bit of pen sketching, some color pencil fiddle faddle, and a pinch of photochop.

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BREAKING NEWS!!! I had an additional GOLEM to share...
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ICE Explorer!...

I liked this sketch enough to visit it again with my little traveling bag of colored pencils... Then hit it with a small dose of photochop to spice things up a bit... Overall I like the outcome..

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MR.OINK

I drew a grumpy downtrodden pig...

"As the years passed Mr. Oink began walking with a cane, he also became increasingly cranky... Most of the other animals avoided him from there on out... For reasons even beyond the fact that Mr. Oink no longer bothered wearing pants."

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SOJU Hooskerdoo...

Last Friday night,
I had a conversation about the wonders of drinking in South Korea...
Soju (the sweet potato based Korean Vodka) can be a very clean buzz. At times IT IS deceptively strong, leaving it difficult to tell when you've had too much. Regardless I love the stuff and find it well worth drinking, plus it blends well with lots of stuff...

Also all this talk of Drinking socially was worth a funny drawing of this drunk fella tripping on a bottle.. I'm guessing he lost his shirt somewhere between his fifth and sixth bottle.

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SAD ROBOT...

Yeah, it's been another one of those days... Needed to sketch to get out of my funk.

I was listening to some smooth tunes from a friends band (TEN MINUTE TURNS) and this robot kinda came into being... Clearly he cannot plug his trusty toaster since his R. ARM fell off...

ON top of ALL that his ROBOT guts fell out for no good reason... Sorry Mr. ROBOT...

Hope tomorrow turns out a bit better,
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ROOSTAH'

Here is a recent scribble of a Rooster. I'm gonna get back into some more regular posts here now that I'm getting through some of my summer family events and obligations... I'll be sure to share some more images soon.

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Little Brown Bear and a Little Brown Jug..

I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted. Feel Rotten about it, and sadly I'll be busy for the next few days which will further impede my posts....
HOWEVER!, I assure you that I"VE BEEN SKETCHING OODLES ..and I mean..OODLES OF STUFF and I'm hoping to share it soon... NO JOKE... For right now though I'll put this out there. "Yeah, it's kinda straightforward here.. This bear likes a good drink." But, I love drawing bears..

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FrankenToot...

Just another Monster with a Trumpet...or maybe its a bugle...

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Slick lookin' fella..

I dug it, and figured you might too.. He sorta made me think of Jerry Reed while I was coloring it up... I kinda like how the Shapely Letter "E" showed up in his hair while I was sketching. Fun stuff...

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Cats can CRITICAL HIT!

I drew a cartoon cat shooting dice... I figured he could be gambling.. But It's far more likely that he's rolling initiative to do battle with some goblins in a treasure laden dungeon... Happy Friday all!

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Steve studies SKULLS

I was doing some Skull drawings last week before I got sucked into a nightmarish flu/fever/viral thing... Which wound up putting me out for the end of that week, and now I'm nursing a cough. In spite of the cough, I did manage to Check out AVENGERS last night and was blown away by it... Can't really say there was anything I didn't enjoy about the story and characters.... I ASSEMBLED!!

Sadly, no superhero's here in this post (I'll try to draw some more soon) just a cartoon skeleton with a cartoon dude that talks about anatomy...

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SKELETAL SCIENCE!

I drew some skulls last week when I wasn't being hounded by the creeping viral bug that I managed to catch. I've not had a fever in some time. forgot how much it can take out of you and just how shitty you feel while having the "chills"

I'm feeling better now, still managing a bit of a cough and some chest congestion but looking forward to getting back to work.
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Running Critter...

Not sure what kind of critter it is but, I liked this itty doodle from a recent sketch page...
Lemme know what you think.

As always I hope you dig,
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GOGOPedro's 100 Hand SLAP!

Hey all, I recently got together with a few friends to do more art STUDIES. Began, with a focus on hands, because they're notoriously tricky to draw and often overlooked in art studies..
I found myself working from a book I've not looked a in a few years"The Book of a Hundred Hands" By George B. Bridgman.
It's a beautiful little book with plenty of descriptive hand drawings, along with the breakdown of structures within the hand, fingers, and the thumb. I looked at his drawings for inspiration, and also found myself redrawing hands multiple times to get a feeling for it as well as trying to work with line and some tone on a halftone sheet to study volume. Wanted to bust out some white pencil highlights in these image... Sadly, I ran out of time... I hope to be doing more of this in the future. I'd really like to build up my visual library and become a better artist all around.

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