Blue Moon Blog

While making new decorations for Halloween, I did a quick sketch of this Igor-type dude with a fine black pen.  After scanning, I inked up his twin with the trusty Niji waterbrush. Scary, keeds!

A couple backsides sketches: Mitchum in Crossfire; “Chuck” from ABC’s delightful Pushing Daisies.

Roughly, in Latin: Candidati Perturbus. It’s been a long campaign for them, too:

She plays Olivia on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (which has been awful good this season so far). It’s a pretty grim show, so Mariska doesn’t get to display her naturally sunny disposition often. Either way, she’s gorgeous (must be the genes), now in her mid-40s, winning Emmys and accolades for her work on the show, now in its tenth season. That’s great to see, since she spent so many years in the trenches before it clicked for her with L&O.

Again from the movie Crossfire, inked with the trusty Pentel Pocket Brush.

Robert Ryan, from the noir movie, Crossfire, and The Newt.

A straightforward rendition of Obama, done directly with my trusty Pentel Brush Pen.

A variety of approaches in pencil: slightly distorted & serious; exaggerated caricature; rock star.

Some late-night Obama sketching from earlier this year, done with a green ball point pen I had on hand.

It’s been fun doing these campaign sketches; I haven’t posted about this material since February, and April when I did a campaign illustration for Scholastic.  I’ve got maybe one more day in me.

Resuming my campaign ‘08 sketching after yesterday’s cheery Cubs post.

Tomorrow: Obama doodles.

More tomorrow.

I’ll be attending the Minnesota FallCon October 4 & 5. I’ve been appearing at this show for years, even before I moved up here from Chicago now over fifteen years ago. The show is run by the nicest group of guys you’ll find, true comic book fans who couldn’t treat better the attendees and guests. Stop on by and say hello!

To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the annual Minnesota Fall comic book convention, cartoonists across the country have contributed collectible sketch cards, some that will given to convention attendees, and some auctioned for charity. Many cards are viewable at the comicartfans.com site; just scroll down a tad and click artist names to see cards that might soon be yours.

And here are my contributions, featuring characters from projects past, present and future.