Hey Look at my (Tim's) Doodles!

Here are few doodles that I've drawn recently... 

A thing from work (Happy 2015...15 days late) 

My mermaid that I promised last time.

And drawing from Dr. Sketchy Akron.

Hey Look another Dr. Sketchy Poster

Hey look! It's another Cleveland Dr. Sketchy poster! 

For shits and giggles, instead of using photoshop this month, I created the original version of the poster in Illustrator (the one following this bable). 

The image above is the no text version of the poster that I tweaked for this blog because ..well why the hell not!

-Tim

Ben Grabs His Sketchpad and Draws From Life

It has been at least 6 months since I've done any live, live drawing.  Oh sure, I've done the occassional rough sketch of a reference photo, but as far being in the room, it had been too long.  I'm sure I said it before on this blog, but life drawing is important.  And I can't think of anywhere I'd rather practice life drawing than at Dr. Sketchy. Look online.  I'm sure there's one in your town.

Good week for sketchying

Last week was a good week for sketching.

Lana Turner 

Don't remember the last time I actually played in my sketchbook.  This one is pencil, colored pencil, marker and paint marker.  AND a trip to our monthly Dr. Sketchy Anti Art School Cleveland created these!

A sketchy lil' doodle

Starting last month two friends ( the wonderful and talented Ashley Ribblett, and Janie Walland ) and I took over the reins of the Cleveland branch of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School!

We had our second event this past Tuesday, and it was fantastic! 

Above is the poster that I made for the event.

Heck, I even had a little time to doodle a bit.

If you're in the area (Northeast Ohio) and you want to check out what the fuss is all about (you should), you can find Dr. Sketchy Cleveland on facebook, and learn all about the next one there (8pm, March 18th @ the Beachland Ballroom).

Tim's Winter Warmer

So, it's been awhile (again)....

anyway, it's freezing cold here (everywhere apparently), so I wanted to paint something to warm things up a bit!

She did her job, warming heart cockles so well, that I decided to use her on my flyer for the Cleveland branch of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School!

Tim's Figure Drawing (again)

Ballpoint pen on 9"x12" paper, 40 minutes (sober)

It's been a pretty busy week, so, here's some figure drawing from Dr. Sketchy (Cleveland)!

Ballpoint pen on 9"x12" paper, 10-15 minutes (one beer)

Ballpoint pen on 9"x12" paper, 15 minutes (...kinda drunk)

They Steal My Thunder, But The Lighting Is What I Need

Hey boys and girls, Randy here with some sketchbook pages this week. When I've got nothing pressing on the table, I love rendering out earlier things from life drawing sessions. The ditch digging part of art can be the best part especially after a long day making things for other people.  There's something about the brain shift that happens that cannot be beat.  David Rakoff sums it up perfectly on this episode of This American Life.  Give it a listen, maybe while you're drawing. 

If these look familiar, I've posted versions of them on Instagram.  Follow me @RandyCrider for more of the same, I promise I won't post pictures of my cat. 

Crunchy Bikini Killer

Hey pals, Randy here, this is my print for our pal Angela Oster's art show; Crunchy:Sugary Cartoon Art For Big Kids.   

Since I've been focusing on RBMC events and freelance work, I've been doing less for art shows.  While the initial drawing started out as a sketchbook piece ignited by a Dr. Sketchy:Akron session, all the embellishments are representations of what I've been doing in lieu of gallery work.  You'd have to ask a therapist why the bloods in there, I'm not going to try. 

I also wanted this to be a response to a piece from a couple of years back that ignited the current arc of  work. 

This is an Adobe Illustrator print from a show I curated called: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful; a little over two years ago. There was a fair amount of overlap of artists in both shows, and I wanted to publicly show the progress I've made by working in Illustrator almost every day for the past year.  While it's easy to put older work down, I think it's important to revisit them so you can see how far you've come. It's why I keep every sketchbook and why this print still hangs in my apartment. 

We're still in the process of putting up a full RBMC store at the main site, and I'll be offering prints of both images soon. In the meantime I put the Bikini Killer image on a shirt over at Red Bubble , and we'll have die cut stickers of the image at our Live Events. 

We'll be posting images from our live mural from the show throughout the week, so keep an eye out for that. 

Stay cool, kids.