Again with the lips

Dragon Doodles

Drawing aligators

A process I go through often is a basic iteration from idea to interpretation. In this case it was our friend the aligator, cause Vicki goes, "Hey, draw an aligator!" And I'm like, "Sure!"

When you actually sit down to do that, strange things happen. You think and start doodling, and what happens is you start to throw down lines that might be an aligator. Unless you just happen to love them and draw them all the time, an aligator is a good example because it's not something immediately familiar. However, it is a common reptile and most people have a pretty good sense of "aligator."

The first drawing is direct from my brain, as a decently experienced artist, my idea of an alligator. Or more accurately for me, my idea of how other artists might draw an aligator. While not necessarily bad, this is common for more artists than they would care to admit.

As I expected after a quick google image search, my drawing looks absolutely nothing like a real aligator. Reference is good, practice is better. So a second drawing was drawn from photo ref and is used as a learning exercise.

Of course, you don't have to draw a "real" aligator, that's probably not the goal anyways. So taking the elements I had from the idea of an aligator, the lessons learned from drawing an accurate aligator, plus some good old fashioned imagination, my final drawing ends up as my creative interpretation of... an aligator!

Skull stuff

Character studies

More Monkey (and skulls)

Messin' around with Monkey

Honey: finished

Honey: head detail

Honey: pencils and inks

Ink doodles

Girlie head sketch

from a recent Drink & Draw

Old Wizard

Another NPC character for a game I worked on.

Farmhand

This was an NPC character for a game I worked on.

The Scarlet Captain - in pixels!

This is an old piece for a game... The sketch was just a guide/concept for the final pixel art, but I liked its weird stylization and colored it. The actual pixel art is only 48x48 I think.

Quickie sketch

Cute Cthulhu

One of Cthulhu's cuter minions.

The Drunk: loosey goosey

The Drunk: happy-go-lucky

The Drunk: aloof

The Drunk: stubby

The Drunk: red honker

Monkey skulls

The Drunk: haggard and schleppy

one of the games I worked on called for a character to be "the town drunk." Several approaches were taken and it was alot of fun. More to come!

Exasperated Monkey

Monkey head

Alien squiggle dude

Alien heads

The Girlie Shirt still available-- on sale!

Not many left of one of my favorite designs: The Girlie Shirt!

$13 -- that's a steal for these quality shirts, for which I personally oversaw production.

Cup Doodle is quite fortunate to have a bevy of lovely lady followers, so y'all should take advantage of this sale and get yourself a Girlie Shirt!

And hey guys, don't be shy-- show some appreciation and get your girlie a shirt they will surely adore you for!

 Once they're gone, they're GONE.


The Girlie Shirt on SALE

Monkey finished

Monkey, aka Sun Wukong, aka all kinds of stuff, the most well known companion from Journey to the West. I draw him often!

Monkey pencils