Clearly I have been neglecting this journal. From time to time I have the urge to show off some things I've done, but then it peters out and I don't re-post for another few months.

Rather than manage having a space for my drawings online right now, I'm going to concentrate on printing and selling comics made out of paper. Those paper comics can be found at Powell's (http://www.powells.com) or Reading Frenzy (http://www.readingfrenzy.com).

If you found this blog by reading any of my comics, thanks for visiting, and keep checking for updates. They will start to re-appear in the hopefully not-too-distant future.

This week, one Ms. Audrey Dilling turned 24. Here is the card I made her to commemorate the occasion:




And, in the spirit of (generally) festive occasions such as birthdays, here's a young woman happily go-go dancing:




I thought it might be funny to end this post by saying "happy birthday, everyone!" but I'm not sure if that's actually amusing or completely nonsensical. All of a sudden it's 90+ degrees in Portland and I can't think straight at all. Still, it's better than days and days of rain.

Here she is, walking around barefoot:





And again, in a messy collegiate-style living room (based on a friend's old apartment in Poughkeepsie, NY):

Portraits of two authors. Click for full size.





Joyce Carol Oates






Sylvia Plath

Here's a smattering of small drawings of animals/creatures, gathered from the pages of my previous sketchbook:




Bear and Dino





buckteeth










...and one more:







I realized that my icon no longer reflects my current haircut. Better do something about that.

...I've just stopped posting. Till now! I admit, it's hard for me to be faithful to livejournals, but I'll give it a better go this time around. Anyway, here's this thing I made in the past few days...it's a family portrait for one of my co-workers (she's second from right). I've yet to give it to her, so I hope it's to her liking. *I* like it, anyway.





More to come...

Current Mood: (as usual)

So I'm still working my way up to drawings from the present...this is from a page I drew in April.

A spring tree:





and a girl in high school:

Some of the better ones from a March 15 life drawing session at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

One minute poses:





a ten minute pose: 



and a twenty-five minute pose, which I inked at home: 

Current Mood: anxious

The Weather Underground was a radical leftist student group during the Vietnam War.  Here's one of the main organizers, Bernardine Dohrn, from a 1969 mug shot.:



...it gets even bigger if you click on it.  Here's some more dissafected 60s student radical types that I made up: 








Crap.  I wish it hadn't started raining...makes me feel as down as this guy. 

Current Mood: blah

 

another journal comic from February:

epilogue:  I now have a job with an amazing afterschool program for September, one affiliated with the "small progressive school" in the comic.  Hooray!