Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! (And Happy 115th Birthday, Grandma!) For today's drawing (and my last Drawtober challenge picture) I took this picture I drew back in February and added some creepy color. I could have had time for more, but most of the evening was spent Trick or Treating with Nora, and then drying out and warming up afterwards.

A Quiet Night

It’s almost too quiet tonight at my house

The girls are upstairs fast asleep

And my wife’s getting ready, she’ll soon be in bed

In a slumber both tranquil and deep

I’ve been reading all night, but I took a short break

To jot down these lines that you see

But I’ll wrap it up soon cause I don’t often get

Such a quiet night given to me

It’s because our TV has been sent for repairs

The screen would stay dark when turned on

And I’m sure I’ll be glad when it finally comes back

But for now it’s nice having it gone

Red Bird's Garden

It's nearly the end of the month, which means the Drawtober challenge is almost over. I'm very disappointed - soon I'll have to start coming up with my own ideas again. Today epitomizes the weirdness I've come to expect - I'm supposed to draw something using at least two of these words: time, feathers, throne, topiary and iceberg. I think I managed to get all five into this one!

"Now this display requires a little more maintenance, but the fertilizer costs are practically nonexistent!"

Genesis

This challenge was to draw a comic with the punchline: "Oops!" I was trying to think of the biggest, most Earth-shattering oops moment possible. I kept thinking of things like someone starting a nuclear armageddon after sneezing on the launch button, or a bunch of dinosaurs somehow attracting an asteroid, but everything I came up with just seemed more depressing than funny. That led me to start thinking about who could possibly have the biggest oops in history, and this is what I came up with...

"That's going to make a HUGE mess!"

Sharpshooter

Here's one I just completed last night for a challenge from a week ago. It's supposed to be a female character with at least two of these attributes: sharpshooter, curls, electric, freckles. You might not be able to tell that she's got curly hair and is wearing an electrical wristwatch, but if this is your view of her, you've got other things to worry about right now!

Free Candy

Here's the finished drawing from yesterday. Thanks to John for the trick-or-treaters idea. They may not be in the picture, but they're on the way! (Click the picture to see it bigger!)

Cave Creature - In Progress

Another work in progress. Today's challenge was the phrase "The creature stirred, waiting in the darkness of the cave for the perfect time to strike." So far, I've got the creature and the cave, but I'm still not sure what to put outside. Any suggestions?

National Crazy Day

Today is National Crazy Day! Here's a little limerick to celebrate:

Let’s go out and dance with a cow

Or take a slow boat to Macao

Put on a bee beard

Or do something else weird

Cause it’s National Crazy Day now!

I know it's pretty brief, but I'm trying something new. Two nights ago, I really got caught up in drawing the cyborg superhero picture and I ended up staying up past 2:00 AM on a work night. I was a wreck the next day, so last night I made myself go to bed at 11:00. I can tell you, I feel worlds better today. So at the expense of some deep and meaningful poetry (which I've never been accused of writing anyway), I came up with this little thing and now I'll go do some dishes and head off to bed. Crazy, I know, but that's the way I roll!

Awaiting Rescue

This is my submission for Day 22, where the challenge was to draw a superhero using at least 2 of these words: synthetic, apple, neon and cyborg. I think I got all four. He's a cyborg (part human, part robot) with synthetic parts (and his super suit is made with synthetic fibers). The glowing neon effects were fun to draw using a very low opacity airbrush tool, and the spinning beach ball effect in his eye is the icon you get on an Apple computer when it's frozen up or thinking hard. Sometimes you don't want to rely too much on technology...

Your rescue will begin momentarily. Please be patient.

Chewie's Gift

Unfortunately for all involved, Chewbacca was not amused by his gag gift.

(Drawtober Day 21 Challenge: Draw something inspired by a movie you like.)