Tag Archive for sketchbook
Better Than a High School Reunion!
This is my friend Lynn and me getting preened for our high school friends’ wedding last weekend. Lynn was a bridesmaid and I was a groomsperson, so last week involved lots of appointments, carpools, dresses, cupcake stands, and more importantly, several nights of catching up with friends from high school–gulp!–eight years ago.
Before & After
The ballpoint-pen sketch is from a train trip to New York. We got stopped by freight traffic before we were all the way out of Pittsburgh, so I sketched the view out the window. I liked the clutter of buildings and trees and wires, and the challenge of making it all intelligible when I redrew […]
Pittsburgh Doodles
Sorry I don’t have a finished comic page to post, but here is a sketchbook page for you. I doodled this during Bach, Beethoven and Brunch, a summer outdoor concert series in Pittsburgh. Also, I stumbled onto Jason Turner’s Page 100 Project last week, so look out for a page or three of novel adaptations […]
Good Life Choice
Yeah, when I’m mesmerized by scenery, I forget that there are consequences to walking uphill as fast as possible for an hour and change. The chili’n beer in question was from the Skagway Brewing Company, which I try to hit every time I’m in that port. It seems that just as I’m becoming a regular […]
Gangway Duty
One of the things to get used to on the ship is everybody’s obsession with hand sanitizer. I understand not wanting a stomach bug to go around, cause I’ve been on a ship when it’s gone on for a couple weeks at a time. It means extra work for the crew, the ratings go down […]
Alaskan buildings
The top one is the back of a shop in the verrry gold rush-style Skagway, Alaska, and the bottom ones are houses in Juneau. It was so refreshing to draw these after spending days on the New Orleans comic, where I’m drawing everything from digital photos and a year-old script. Drawing buildings on-site was one […]
Lunch with Musician-Dudes (an excellent pastime)
This is a quick sketch I did today in Ketchikan, Alaska. (Kasa had an…unprecedented reaction to being drawn.) Don, to his right, is leaving in two days, so the four of us went on a wildlife tour, then ate lunch at the New York Hotel. (I wholeheartedly recommend their coffee, and their salmon panini with lemon, capers, red […]
Goodbyes for Real
The street scene is in Bridgetown, Barbados. I admit that in 2 years, I’ve spent most of my Barbados-days at a crew-hangout beach bar, partying like an undergrad, but one can also walk into the city where “real people” eat and shop. The buildings are a combination of crumbling former colonial grandeur, pastel-colored, decades-old multi-story […]
Penultimate San Juan
I just found a BEAUTIFUL new place for coffee and internet through the ship-musician grapevine. I’m in an open square with tons of benches and a few tables surrounding a coffee stand. People stroll by constantly: couples, families and friends, people with laptops, strollers and dogs. The weather is cloudy and cool, at least for […]