Week Uno of October "Back in Action"

 

 

 

 

First week back drawing in a while let a lone self portraits. Hopefully it will be like

riding a bike, and I will get better and weirder than ever before. 

Forbidden fruit

Day 2 

The forbidden fruit dangle before me in my weakened state. Dare i take the bait of such a luscious thing? 

Back in action

Well, first one back in quite a long hiatus. First, scanner fizzled out, didn't have a good camera, then work (Halo 4) went into full tilt crunch. ... Then, i just neglected the arts. But i plan to go further than I did previously and use these as warmup for the real drawing and painting!!!! 

WEEK TWELVE

I have noticed I tend to draw myself without a shirt a lot and sans pants even more often. This week is no exception. I am not sure why I do this, because I am a pretty modest person. Maybe its my inner desire to never wear pants. Ever. But since I cannot for fear of incarceration or exile, I live out this odd desire through my odd self portraits.

 A lot of what I do at work never really leaves my mind.

It is hard to just shut it off when I get home. I spend a big

chunk of my evening puzzling how I will set up render pipelines

or animation rigs... or folder structure. On this night, I was

particularly taken with After Effects project organization

and structure. 

 Whoa. This one is hard to look at but I cannot take my eyes off of it.

Had A birthday Dinner for Grandpa Grady. A

good time is always had with Grady. He shares my twisted

sense of humor and is always good at planting bizarre

scenarios and weird tales in my brain.  It was Fun!

 Dr. Ciacco's favorite word. 'Meh' This ones for you Brett.

 I need a psychiatrist to help me out with this one.

...Or a Japanese comic book artist...

Dr. Ciacco is now a Full time Free lance animator and Illustrator.

Getting my Baking skills on for Thanksgiving. I was tasked in

preparing Cindy's world famous Pumpkin squares. And I must say,

I have the magic touch. I don't like to toot my own horn...

but I make a fantastic Holiday cake.

WEEK ELEVENTEEN

Getting close to current dates! During this week.. I gave myself a hair cut with my beard trimmer. Did a fine, fine job... it just took about an hour and a half.

 Whoa. I cannot recall what I was having an inner

debate about. But I do remember I was divided

right down the middle. And this image came to me.

Me Wrastling with myself. This is hard to look at.

It reminds me of a story Jeremy told me one time

about him and his Cousin Rob wrestling in his apartment.

...you will have to request the story From J... it is

not my place to tell that particular tale.

 Not sure what to say about this one, other than

that hair you see, it my most photo real drawing

to date.

 Ok. This is a good one. This is based on true events.  Two nights before this incident, I had a dream I was in a car wreck. THE VERY NEXT DAY AFTER MY DREAM, I was with a some Co workers and we were on a coffee run, and as we were making the left hand turn into the Starbucks parking lot, a gold Hyundai just started pulling out also making a left hand turn int the main street. She just simply did not see us, and luckily I was not going very fast and she managed to stop mere inches away from us. (And the entire event was being narrated by Brett in the passenger seat in a high shrill cartoon voice as we were skidding to a stop: "WHOAAAAAAAAA LAAAAAADY!!!!!.... SHES GOT KIDS!!!!") And as we were stopped looking at each other she waved and admitted she did not see us... Then my gaze went from looking upon the terror on her face into the backseat of her car, and there is three car seats, fully equipped with frightened children. It was frightening and hilarious at the same time. And I thought to myself "That's weird because I just had a dream about this."

THE VERY NEXT DAY AFTER THE COFFEE INCIDENT: For those of you have been to North Bend on SSaturday, you know it is crazy busy. I was on my way home, it was raining, and I had Sadie with me and I was moving right along, and out of no where, a BMW Z4 roadster pulls out in right front of me, and I had to hit the brakes and i slid about 20 feet and stopped a frogs fart away from T boning this guy into the Never Never. I am still not sure how I did not hit him. He was coming off of the Freeway off ramp and just decided he own that part of the road and payed no heed to the stop sign in front of him... or the stream of cars whizzing by.  And he had  hit his brakes too, and I am not sure you could have put a piece of paper between my license plate and his passenger door...but he did not wave.. or nod, or attempt to say "My Bad" instead after he saw that he was still alive, he peeled off and went directly across the road and got back on the Freeway. Then the rage roiled up inside of me, I was so furious. I turned into a freak demon from the darkest part of Hell, and all I saw was red, and I wanted nothing more than to follow that guy and ram him off the road as I laughed maniacally.

...Then from the back seat. "He wasn't using his manners was he?"...Sadie pulled me back to earth, even though I was shaking like a leaf and pretty rattled my rage went away and I started to laugh uncontrollably. But I am not worried, Karma will catch that guy in the Z4. Or hopefully that scared him too and he will stop at stop signs now.

New haircut. And I forgot my head is horribly misshapen and lumpy and grooved.

But it feels good to not have a full helmet of hair weighing me down.

 Number 75! And me and my weirdly shaped Skull.

And I AM a pretty Flower. 

Some would say I have an "Unhealthy" relationship with coffee. Because this

is what I see when I look a a cup of Java.

WEEK TEN

well, by this point my hair was full blown Helmet and was in need of a cut so bad.  It was Starting to make me crazy. Well crazier than normal.

 Top Ramen. For me its Crack Cocaine in noodle form.

 This is so far my all time favorite. This guy is here

to listen, and let you blow off steam and not

judge you... Just to Listen.

My Hair is so thick, so dense, when it gets to a certain

length it is bullet proof. And I am pretty sure it is the

closest think to a Sasquatch pelt available to known science.

 pretty sure there are little gnomes living in my coif of Hair.

 I am losing weight pretty steadily with just eating better

but in order for me to really burn that fat and get rid of

fat Will, I need to exercise consistently.

 Another late night at work, sketched this

out while running on fumes.

Oh Baby, triple stack of tasty splendor,

just on my finger tips, but eternally teasing

and taunting me, driving me to internal

madness and confusion. Soon I may turn

my pain and torment outward and

attack a ten gallon jug of Neapolitan

consequences be dammed!

WEEK NINER

Not a lot to say about this week, other than Dr. Ciacco and I had us a Drink and Draw, and we watched some pretty awesome cheesy 80's movies. Troll easily being the best of the night. Harry Potter Jr. Look it up. Harry Potter Jr. is in Troll along with the best troll puppets ever made.

Another late night after work, didn't really draw much on this night.

In fact this was about all I could manage.

 Two nights in a row of being super super tired after work.

At least I had enough in me to make this spider ask me for drugs.

I have no drugs.

 Night of the Drink and draw. Rainier Beers. Super cold and Delicious.

I ended up drinking 14 of them. I haven't done that in years and that brings

us to this.....

 Sweet Loyd almighty. I have beer all the time, but rarely do I ever

exceed two, on a special occasion or if I am feeling rambunctious

I will have three. But after fourteen 'Fishing Beers' (thank you for

the term Grady) I was so hungover and nauseous the next day. And

felt pretty Shitty the next two. I used to be able to drink alot, but

wow, I am unable to get after it now. Though Brett and I had fun

during the drink and Draw. I was sweating grease of some sort,

and my mouth tasted like I had been open mouth kissing an old

work boot. I never want a Rainier beer ever again.

 HALLOWEEN!! My favorite Holiday of the year! And we met up with

my cousins Chris, Ron, Rick, Rick's girlfriend Michelle, Ginger, Ginger's

boyfriend Jim and  Dr. Mr Max and went trick or treating so hard!

It was so much fun! I CANT WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR!!

I am getting all hyper just thinking about it!

YEEEEEAAAAAAYA! HALLOWWWEEEEEEN!!!

 Went Clean shorn for 'Novembeard' at work. We do not shave

during Novembeard... well.. Neck trimming is allowed, but no face

shave permitted. I Even took off my side burns to a comic effect.

I try and Tell myself I didn't want something when I

cannot actually get it. But its a lie and we all know it.



WEEK EIGHT

Well. I hit a Milestone on this week. The big 50. it was the first time in a long time I felt like I actually accomplished something. Even though these are just silly self portraits, it feels good to have kept the streak going this long.

 here it is 50. Fifty and a Popsicle... all natural, all fruits no sugar.

I have a sick sense of humor, and sometimes I laugh at

super inappropriate stuff. And when its over the line,

my inner No Nonsense Football Coach, comes

along to shut me up.

Also during this stretch. due to dietary reasons, I went Beer

Free. It wasn't easy, But I did it. I then decided to allow

myself one Tall Boy of Ice House. It was amazing. And

inexpensive. Inexpensively amazing.

 I do have a birthmark located here. But I decided

 it would be cooler if was hearts n stuff.

 Alot going on here. The guy on my shoulder shouldn't be

talking, some body let his ass out... with no pants.

Even when I actually get my hands on the iced cream

I get denied. Typical.

Dr. Ciacco and I decided to draw ourselves as care bears.

I am Suds a lot bear. I can make half racks appear with magic.

WEEK SEVEN

Still on my 'Staycation' and drawing a ton of animals, and drinking far too much caffeine.

 I have a feeling this is my spirit guide. Taking me on a journey, showing me

the truths of the universe.  I was just sitting eating some pudding and minding

my beeswax and then... BAM! This guys snatches me up and out like Aladdin

and his magic carpet.

 More animal reference material making its way into the warm ups.

 Want a dusty Milkshake? ..But hey... they are still better than the

Milkshakes at McDonald's.

 For a long time, I was putting away a pot and a half a day. I had to stop.

My mental state was hanging by a thread, and the doctor had some feedback

as well, so I cut way back. But every so often it starts creeping back up

 to unhealthy levels. And while on Vacation, left alone and unchecked like

an invasive biological alien species...I let the coffee oz pile back up

 I was pretty tired and delirious when I did this one. Or coming down

from being out of my mind on coffee.

 Never Covet another mans Ice Cream.

Even if that other man is you.

A few days before my vacation was up, I received an email that I was to get

a job review upon my return. So for three days this stressed me out to no end

I toiled over this idea for three days and it made me physically Ill.