Wind blowing through hair and another sketch of Old Joe.

It’s been a long weekend.  These were supposed to go up on Monday but God got drunk and tried to take a swing at Maryland.  I ended up getting called into storm at 1:45 in the morning and didn’t get out until late afternoon.

If you’re curious what a storm center looks like during a storm, it’s basically exactly what Hollywood makes it look like.  Picture the bridge of the aircraft carrier in _Hunt for Red October_ when the incoming F-16 is about to crash, or the control room of the damage response folks in _Volcano_ or just about any disaster movie.  Lots of folks running back and forth, people screaming into telephones, “We need a truck over there now!  I mean NOW!!” or “We’ve a fire and arcs reported at 32 Pine La and crews in route.  Fire department is paralyzed till someone gives the all clear.  What’s truck #3’s eta?”

Pretty dramatic…the only difference is food.  You trap 50 to 100 people in one room for 16 hours with no notice and you have to feed them….and if you want them to stay on their toes, there needs to be lots of protein, sugar, and liquids.  Every desk is loaded down with two to three plates of half-eaten breakfasts, pizzas, pulled-pork sandwiches….often stacked up because everything’s too hectic to ever finish a meal, much less throw away the plate it was on.

Just for the record, I’ve rarely been as amazed as I was yesterday by the collective determination of a group of people to get something fixed, regardless of how many holes just got punched in the dike by something cranky.

In any case, I did these two on Friday afternoon while drinking coffee at the Blarney, about 48 hours before I understood the grim humor inherant in the phrase “an unscheduled ignition event.”

I have some issues with the arch of the back, but most of the point was hair so I decided not to fuss with it too long.

The next is a second sketch of Old Joe.  I did one a few months back….since he seems to be around Fells a lot, I suspect that, give it 6 months, I’ll probably have a couple dozen of these.  If that happens, I’ll put them all together into one post on a slow day.

For the record, everything is full steam ahead for Dr. Sketchy’s - Baltimore.  The first session will be June 8th, from 1 pm to 4 pm at Dionysus.  We have a model and a backup model lined up, and a whole whopping stack of folks interested in modelling in the future.  We’ll probably go twice a month pretty damn fast.

IF you haven’t already, and you’re hankering to get your draw on, check out the website (there’s a myspace page as well) linked to the right. 

One last note, apparently there’s a bar, the Laughing Pint, in Highland town that hosts a weekly drink and draw session on Saturday nights.  Something else to check out.

 

Some old and new.

Now that all the Dr. Sketchy’s stuff is starting to roll forward, and the website is essentially up, I can finally get back to the stuff over here.  

The first two sketches are at least a decade old - both were done while I was in college.

The above is a sketch of a bunch of boulders at Graveyard Fields, a camping ground up on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, NC.   The forest there burned down at one point and moss grew over the stumps, making the thing look like a graveyard at some point in the past (though I don’t think it looks like that anymore.

Next is a bunch of sketches during a Godawful section meeting at work….the first is a diagram of a robot I’m currently building in Anim8or.

The next two are folks droning on about last quarter’s prediction median’s for next quarters analysis for the previous quarter’s predictions.

And last, but not least, Mr. Big Nose.

 

 

Interested in Baltimore’s very own Dr. Sketchy’s Anti- Art School?

Well, Dr. Sketchy’s Baltimore is a go, green-lit, out of rehab, ready to go.

This means that not only can you attend a laviciously decadent life drawing session on the first Sunday of every month, you could also get mugged, shot at by the police, lose your house in a shady real estate deal, or install a questionable statue at the local train station.  Dr. Sketchy’s is responsible for none of that by the way. 

You’re the one living here.

Dionysus is our gracious host and our inaugural session will be either June 1 or June 8, and we’ll know for sure on that within 24 hours.

Check out the website for all the fancy info.

 

Dr. Sketchy’s in Baltimore.

Real quick……..Dr. Sketchy’s in Baltimore is fully greenlit now…expect an update here tomorrow (probably) and the official website to be up as well (it’s already half-built).

We’ve got Molly Crabapple’s permission, a venue (a pretty damn cool one), and even the first model or two lined up.  If you want an idea of a date, think vaguely the beginning of June.

More in twenty-four hours or so…..

 

Old Norm?

Doodled these at the Blarneystone yesterday afternoon while waiting for a bunch of drunk friends to get back from the horse races.

I’ve got a couple more days worth that I’ve let back up this week….I’ll see if I can do a monster post sometime on Monday.

I so think this one looks like Norm 20 years after Cheers ended.

I probably would have gone a lot further with this one, but the aforementioned friends arrived in a flurry that could easily have been mistaken as a sudden tornado strike.  A lot of folks are probably hurting today.