Below is the classic vampire stance: arms thrown up in the air, fangs bared, pure intimidation meant to freeze you in your tracks. Used mostly to buy time when pursued by vampire slayers.

Below is a sequence, in which the small, dainty vampire bides her time, taking advantage of a lunar eclipse in order to get herself a little werewolf blood. The werewolf is wondering, “Me no feel so good! Did me eat something bad?”


(I liked basing my characters on people I know. The idea was that anybody could be a vampire, not just surprisingly goodlooking teenagers, or scary, Bela Lugosi types.)

Below is a very happy, bloodthirsty vampire who really believed in vampirism as a lifestyle.

And here is why you should be super careful in the subway, ladies!

To see more, here’s a public link to a folder on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=80636&id=726599530&l=8d819c5c58

Above is how time flies for me. I did this doodle this morning while drinking my coffee. Suddenly I realized it was time to run to my day job! Thus, “time” and “carrots.”

As far as cartoons go, here’s my latest in The New Yorker:

And here’s my debut on 23/6, the Huffington Post’s comic relief site, with a musing on President Bush and the Shoe Incident.

Now to the rejects!

I tried to come up with some images for The Bubble Lounge, one of my illustration clients, because I didn’t like the photo they asked me to use for a champagne delivery promo I was working on for them, but both my ideas were rejected!

Oh well! Here they are:

This one was inspired by a Japanese delivery truck logo I once saw in Tokyo.

And this one just popped into my head, inspired by a Le Monde graphic  for newspaper delivery used in their subscription ads:

This was rejected, but  not abandoned! I decided to practice my colorizing with Photoshop.  Still have no idea if I’m doing it right, just trying this or that.  Seems like it should be easier, somehow!

And I don’t want to hear any crap about comparing Palin to a poodle being sexist!  She’s the one who started comparing herself to domestic animals! She made her dog-bed and she can lie in it now!

Here is the B & W version:

Home sick, watching DVD’s, I always liked this scene from Hitchcock’s “Marnie,” when she’s got the safe open but can’t get her hand to steal the money in the safe and Sean Connery looms up behind her and says, “Go ahead and take it! It’s not stealing! What’s mine is yours!”

One thing I always noticed about the movie (besides Sean Connery’s overly plucked eyebrows) is all the beige’s and browns and yellows. If you look carefully, you’ll notice an uncanny, bright yellow theme going from the yellow getaway handbag, to the yellow fridge in Marnie’s mom’s house, to the yellow leather vest on Sean Connery’s father.

(I’d provide reference photos, but I simply paused the DVD and worked from the TV screen.)

Well, I had already done my fun drawings from Trouble in Paradise, but had not figured out how to color them in. So here’s my second try at inking with layers.

Here’s what it looked like before inking and a little repositioning, just india ink on paper, then scanned:

I’m not sure which I prefer. I had thought the B&W one was too rough looking, and quite liked adding in grays with the layering. They I got into coloring the rest in, probably inspired by DIVYA SRINIVASAN’s illo last week.

See my previous Trouble in Paradise attempts (of Miriam Hopkins), a few posts down.

These are the reference photos besides the actual movie that I used to guide me. For the Miriam Hopkins, in my previous post, I drew directly from the screen. (On pause, of course!):

1- for her body
2- for her face
3- for his pose

More practice in layers and colors. This is Eddie Constantine, in Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville.

For the black and white version, see a previous post, here.

Eddie has a face that’s interestingly bloated and wrinkled at the same time. He’s got that redheaded complexion, which shows in the eyes mostly. Sometimes he looks like a burn victim, his face is so distressed. And when he wants to, he can turn to the side or three quarter profile and make his eye look like the eye of a whale, like in the moment before he kills the guy in the telephone booth next to him (as in my illo). I drew him from the television screen, but here’s a photo of the moment just before he turns, realizing he has a neighbor.

Here’s two more images of Eddie, which show what he looks like, here, and here.

And I love this one, from Alphaville.

Well, thanks to Dave James’ benevolent kibbitzing (via email, now that I have closed comments in order to enjoy a respite from deleting the constant flow of incoming spam), I now know how to do layers! Thank you Dave James!
This is my very first attempt/romp in layers, with Cary. I like the idea of romping with Cary Grant! Indeed!

Just playing around with the Wacom Tablet. Still haven’t figured out how to use my Adobe CS3!

WOOPS!
For anyone who saw the other post and wonders why this is a double, I accidentally deleted it! Here he is again.