Whenever I draw a spaceship, this is the one that most often comes to mind. I used to love those washing up bottle rockets with the sparkler hanging out the back that the 30s and 40s Flash Gordon serials used to use as model spacecraft. I've taken some of that influence and mixed it with a cockpit that sticks out a little like the Millenium Falcon's. This is the rocket I'm using in a story I'm writing with my kids about an inventor called Professor Popplepot.
I've thought long and hard about the brief this weekend, I came up with a lot of common understandings: water, glass etc. This morning a new interpretation struck me as I was thinking about a friend of mine.
An area in England just West of Birmingham is known as The Black Country. Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop, written in 1841, described how the area's local factory chimneys "Poured out their plague of smoke, obscured the light, and made foul the melancholy air". This doodle is my little homage to the area.
This is me on an exercycle at the gym. It's quite difficult to draw a bicycle, let alone an exercycle, let alone even more a person on any kind of bicycle. Disregard the fact that you can see through my leg there. I'm usually opaque. Maybe I should practice drawing myself first and then draw the bike around me. Oh well.
Today I was compelled to draw an elephant. I've never drawn one before. I forgot the tail though, but I was running late for work, so I redrew the whole thing. Here's a happy elephant.
This is an illustration of my friend Sarah who had problems popping up a bag of popcorn in her office's microwave one day. To avoid setting off the smoke alarms, she dashed outside near a construction site and threw out the smoldering bag of charred corn.
I took a ghost hunter class back in October and it inspired me to draw this little doodle. The writing was cut off on the top there, but I'm just pointing out that the big circle there is the full moon.
