1 February 2007 - Alexander Hamilton

After a year trying to get my research grant transferred over to my new place of business, I finally got my first full-time paycheck. So I drew this picture of Alexander Hamilton who is on the 10 dollar bill.

I would have liked to have drawn Benjamin Franklin, but it's been years since I held a benny.

31 January 2007 - Snowflakes

About mid-afternoon I was away from the office running various errands when it began to snow in earnest. As I am not used to dealing with snow, I decided to work from home rather than risk being trapped in rush hour traffic later on. The snow initially was coming down as big fluffy snowflakes. But there must have been some instability in the weather system. Next minute, the precipitation started coming down as big rain droplets. I was struck by the violence of this rapid change in the weather. This went on for a few minutes while the winter gods decided whether to have snow or freezing rain. They must have made a decision as in about 5 minutes time the big fluffy snowflakes were back.



This is the first appearence of Annie Mae in the sketchbook. Annie was a minor character in our comic strip "Terminal Degrees". Much like Kenny in South Park she was constantly getting injured or killed, usually by something going hideously wrong with one of her experiments. My partner in crime, who was the artist, did the original character design and based her on one of the generic cute schoolgirls found in anime and manga. Thus she was named Annie Mae (yeah, I know, how effing original). At the time art based on anime/manga wasn't so prevalent, so it seemed fairly cutting edge. All I remember of the original character design was her hair clip that unsuccessfully kept her hair out of her eyes. I can't refer back to the strips as they were lost in a flood in Houston. Still, I think I will ressurrect her and continue to work on her character design. Keep an eye out for more "Annie Mae" appearences.

30 January 2007 - Itching Throbbing Brain

About midway through the afternoon a fierce headache started up. I hung around work for another hour and a half, before calling it a day and heading home early. I took some aspirin and laid down for a nap. I woke up about 2 hours later with most of the headache gone. The headache inspired this picture.

I wish I had waited until the next day, as I think I rushed through the drawing too quickly and I'm not totally happy with the quality of this drawing.

The legend came from a discussion some friends of mine had at a particularly drunken party. We were saying that we should drop out of grad school and start a rock band. We then started coming up with rock band names. "Itching Throbbing Brain" was my proud contribution.

29 January 2007 - My Home Entertainment Center

I had forgotten that January the 28th was the date of SketchCrawl 12.5. The topic of this sketchcrawl was to draw areas of your house. I was going to do my home entertainment center on Sunday, but I forgot. So I just drew it on Monday.

26 January 2007 - Figure Drawing

Went figure drawing tonight. This is a 20 minute drawing of a male model.

28 January 2007 - Another T-shirt Design

It was time to do laundry again, so while I was sorting and folding clothes I pulled this t-shirt out to sketch the design.

27 January 2007 - Devil Girl

I was going through a box that I had not unpack since the move and came across a tin of Devil Girl Hot Kisses. The lid of the tin has a picture of Devil Girl by Robert Crumb.

Robert Crumb is one of my artistic influences. I like his artwork and hope to be as good in working in pen some day.