On Ice

Went with the family to see Disney on Ice tonight and I must say that I had a good time.  It was the first time for my niece and she had a blast as well, so it was all good.  The last I went was when I was a kid, so seeing the excitement and wonderment in her eyes was awesome.  The skaters were good.......but there were quite a bit of spills.  No joke!  There were mermaids, starfish and pirates hittin the deck......and not in good ways.  I gotta hand it to them though, they got up so quick if were looking the other way you would have missed it.  Unfortunately I didn't pack my good camera and had to rely on my trusty cellphone......hence the blah blah pictures.

 "Unda da sea!"  With Sebastian

 Very cool when giant Ursula came out.....until they killed her...

..... Intermission .....

Giant tick tock crock was awesome.....until they killed him too.  Just kidding!

GRAND FINALE WITH PETER PAN!  GOOFY,........TAKE US OUT!

Look into the eyeball

I hate it when I don't draw for long periods of time, because I almost have to relearn some things.  Not good.  In order to begin the warm up process I do some loose gesture sketching and stuff on that order.  Pose Maniacs is an awesome site I came across that gives you random images of models to draw.  They also provide a timer for you to improve yourslef, from 10 to 90 seconds.  Here is the result of my 45 sec session....

I know I should have gotten further along in 45 sec, but I'm working on it.


About that eyeball talk in the title....  For a while I was considering going back to school to get into Optical Dispencing....you know, as a backup plan to the art thang.  As a result I was drawing eyeballs until my heart was content.  .....sounds morbid, huh?  Eventually I narrowed all my sketches down to one and recreated it on canvas.  IT WAS A BLAST!  Check out the process....

 

Hot time in the old town tonight

It's officially fall now and eveyone thought that this crazy heat would start to die down.......well it hasn't!  I don't appreciate that, 113 degree heat is not fun.  Besides that it never fails that when the heat kicks up the fire bugs come out.  Fire bugs being arsonists.  I've stated in a previous post that I choose to take advantage of my time in traffic by doing some constructive thinking and whatnot.  ....just because I do that doesn't mean I want to make a habit out of it.  So imagine my frustration yesterday when for no apparent reason the cars around me suddenly sloooooooow down.  Then in the distance I see smoke.......and where there is smoke there is fire.  But get this!

    ........IT'S A MILE AWAY!  Here we are a frikkin mile away on a bridge, staring at a fire that has nothing to do with us!  Yet we're watching it.......yup we're watchin it.

Happy Birthday!

Another year older....blah, blah, blah.....whatever they say.  Not me mind you, but my Dad.  He's now fifty-blahnappaoloopyada....  So I'm not sure exactly, gimme a break!  It's a chore just keeping up with my own age.  See, when you're younger you don't really have a chance to forget your birthday because people are always asking you.  I haven't had anyone ask me in so long, so I forget from time to time.  Imagine my shock earlier this year when I was reminded that I was going to make 28.  To some that's not a big deal, but for me its it biggie since I'm going thru whats called a "quarter life crisis".  And this is only because at this point in my life I feel I should have more accomplishments.  ...but enough about selfish me.....Dad acted like celebrating his b-day was no big deal, but he loved it.....I know this because half, yes HALF of the cake was gone by morning.  .....uhm hmm...

Traffic has it perks

So this was my view on my way home.  Yay for me, right?  Yeah right.  I don't make a habit out of it, but sometimes I can get a bit, shall we say.....stank, when finding myself stuck in traffic.   But on the plus side I've discovered that I do some of my best thinking during that time.  First its the usual thought of  "So if an earthquake hit right now......what would I do?"  After that's out of the way I start noticing the other drivers and how they look and act towards each other.  I also notice the many homeless people walking the streets.  Before I know it my attitude has changed and can you believe it?  ....I'm even letting people go ahead of me!  .....and why not?  We're all stuck in the same traffic anyways, its not like we're going anywhere at the moment.  In the end the experience leaves me feeling very mellow and appreciative of the fact that I can afford to be slightly inconvenienced by something as minor as traffic.  Instead of major inconveniences like poverty, sickness or homelessness.

Mmmm...mmm...good

Got my ramen on!  I tell you, ramen always comes through in a jam.  But as you can see....I take my ramen very  seriously.  Got all Food Network-y and even busted out my new chopsticks.  Ya see, all that time watching Iron Chef (japan) paid off!  Fresh veggies, special sauces.... it's all about presentation people!  DEEEE-LISH!

coming down the pipeline

Even though you don't see anything, it doesn't mean I'm not doing anything.  I've got quite a bit of work to post up . . . . but my scanner hates me!  And I it, so at least we're on the right page.  So I'll be posting some work, but it'll be photo's.  Better that than nothing, eh?