Oliver Twist

I made this just to play around with halftones and textures. Kinda fun. The layout has some odd trapped spaces, and Oliver is looking off to the left with very little lead room for his face. I thought this sort of tension worked, since the story is about a boy caught in difficult circumstances.My wife hates the musical, Oliver! I think she can't get past the boy's soprano voice. We used to make fun of the line "just thinking of growing fat" all the time at my house, but I love the movie.

Kid

No story here. Just a kid. With the secret to all human knowledge tucked inside his pocket.

Sketchbook Doodads

I've really liked working with the Pentallic Nature Sketch books. The paper's nice and thick, and it has a good texture to it. Plus, it makes it easier to draw weird-looking hats, robots, and things drifting away on balloons.

Norman

I'm not sure how well this guy's doing in the Scripps Howard Intergalactic Spelling Bee, but at least he has a cool sweater.

Rice

Maybe it's because I think their robes are so cool, but I started drawing monks recently. I know very little about Buddhism and Buddhist monks, so I've started learning a little more about them. I have it on pretty good authority that Buddhist monks do eat rice. (Thanks, Wikipedia. You're the best.)

Jimmy Dean

Doodled this the other day and thought it looked like a (really) young James Dean.

Mesas

Being from Arizona, I like to sketch mesas. All the time.

Notes

This is how I take notes when I go to lectures.

Fishing machine?

I'm not sure why you would need a headset for this machine, but it does have cool squiggly leg-like things on the bottom.