The Seed of Bad Taste

Now was it the insensitive conversation during a meeting at work that made me draw these pictures, or was it the pictures I drew during the meeting at work that led me into an insentive conversation? It's really hard to know.

Sharpie Sketches VI: The Cutting Room Floor

These are relics from last year that have been sitting on my desk for a long time. Sitting and judging.

I am the Ghost of White Elephant Past

Many moons ago, while employed at the esteemable Smashing Ideas, I drew a collection of Food Monsters on the whiteboard in my cubicle. Angry deviled eggs, feathered hamburger octopus pirates, serpentine milkshakes ... pretty standard fare for me. I left the whiteboard in my cubicle when I said good-bye, but little did I know that the granules of my dry erase markers were destined to play a key role in an SI Holiday tradition!

Here's my unblemished "artwork" - made infinitely more respectable by the addition of a classy black frame - as it is unwrapped by Devi during SI's White Elephant Gift exchange!


And here's Jessica, enjoying the spoils of her strategic victory, after the whiteboard was declared BEST GIFT of 2009!


I can say, officially, that this is my favorite White Elephant story of ALL TIME and I wasn't even there! Thanks to all the cats and kittens at SI, and Tiffany and Jim in particular for keeping me in the loop, because this really made my day.

2010 here I come!

Late afternoon. The office kitchen. One fortune cookie left. FTW!

Sharpie Sketches V: The Holiday Special

Splendiferous inkifications!

Chess!

Emma has graduated from placing hats on all of her characters to placing hats made of CHEESE on all of her characters. And when I say "all of her characters" I really mean "this one particular character named Chess" which you may know cower in awed observance of:


There's nothing about cheese hats I don't like. Of course, I've never actually worn one so I'm open to the possibility that having one on my head might be a little more aromatic than it's worth. But DRAWING cheese hats is a win.

We're A Happy Family

My "Re-Masterpiece" is finally complete! I use the word "finally" as if I've been working on this piece for two weeks instead of waiting until a day before the deadline to even crack a tube of paint.

But one nauseatingly sleepless night later I have transformed the stoic, meditative poses of two anonymous likely-deads ...


... into the following hard candy affront to both the senses and the elderly patrons of the Sears Portrait Studio. Behold!


My favorite part was the fact that, with acrylic, there is no CTRL+Z. When your brush gives you lemons, you just gotta make that lemonade! I learned that from my man Bob Ross (who unlike the subjects of my vandalism is, sadly, a confirmed dirt-napper).

Hippobee

Another unfortunate animal mash-up ...

Bring Out Yer Dead ... Meat

'Tis the season for Food Drives, because that food ain't gonna drive itself! Here's the illustration I made for our food drive at work, which benefits the patrons of local do-gooder joint Northwest Harvest. Beep!

Re-Masterpieces!

My esteemed colleagues at PopCap and I are participating in an internal art show inspired by a recent Wurst Gallery exhibit: Re-Masterpieces!

Here's the lowdown: Several dedicated PopCappers scoured local thrift stores for "artwork" of all types. These various paintings and photographs were then blindly selected by PopCap employees through a White Elephant exchange. The piece you ended up with is the piece you must improve!

And now the moment you've all been waiting for! I proudly present my canvas:




These poor people do not deserve what is coming to them ... or maybe they do. Let's face it: I have no idea who they are.

Stay tuned!

Snailsquatch

After I posted my Shiraffe on the TAG blog, I got to thinking about other animal mash-ups that I could doodle. I thought ... and I thought ... and I thought some more. Then I stopped thinking, squished a Sasquatch and a snail together and called it good.

Medusa

I sketched this with a Sharpie a few days ago:


I liked it enough that I tossed it into Photoshop to try a color version:


This was a fun lil' drawering, but like most of what I doodle, I would hate to see it in real life.

Sharpie Sketches IV: Halloween Edition

Scribblings and scratchings to compliment our late-October festivities.