Renewal

Good news everyone, I'm still technically alive. I have been inspired by this weeks Illustration Friday to get some quick drawing into my schedule. Once again, while sitting in church my pen started moving and a concept was put onto paper. The first thing that came to mind for this weeks topic (title of post :) was a phoenix. I'm including my thumbnail and then my rough draft, I like this one and I think I might take all the way a finished painting, but I think the skull in the foreground needs work. What do you think? Also, while I'm soliciting critiques, does anyone like the placement of the skull in the thumbnail better then the rough draft?

this is the thumbnail

this is the rough, drawn with pen and pencil, scanned from my sketch book

Cravings...mmmmmm......

Bad news everyone, there was a little trouble with the last batch of doughnuts. Just kidding, I only wanted to show what happens when a person eats a cursed doughnut (any guesses where that idea came from?) . Or it's a commentary about forces behind the junk food obsession. Or, maybe I just wanted to do a quick loose, well as loose as I can get, drawing while watching Lost and thinking about zombies and Claire's weird flashbacks. Since I like all three explanations, I'm not telling. Besides, isn't it more fun when you get to think of your own interpretations of what an artist was thinking? So go out and enjoy your very own cravings!

A puke story

This is a touching story of a husband holding the hair of his wife as she goes through opiate withdrawl. I'm not trying to be sarcastic either, the story ends with her husband whispering "I love" between each bout of vomiting. It's a story I can really relate too.

It was fun to draw, I love pen and ink. Also, I like drawing toilets too, so this was a winner in my book. I just hope commonties likes it too. I would write more on the deep ponderings of my mind but I went to bed last night at like 4 am cause I was watching the movie, The Four Feathers. We just got it and I didn't want to wait till a normal time to view it. I can be fairly impatient at times, a shocking revealation for those of you who know me. At any rate, I think I'm going to rumage through my bag for some food of some kind, I'm really hungery and no, it's not the "munchies".