2 Years of Stuff

2 years of posting my drawings on the internet.....I must be cracked!

For those who don't recognize this character, it's the mascot for Cracked Magazine. Cracked was a competitor of Mad Magazine. Where Mad Magazine had Alfred E. Neuman, Cracked had this guy. Most people know him as 'the Cracked janitor' but thanks to Wikipedia I now know that his name is Sylvester P. Smythe.

My posting tends to be sporadic and infrequent but I'm still going after two years. Only 350 days to my 3 year anniversary!

Backyard Bash

I drew this for the invitations to our second annual backyard bash.

Goofy

Here's my attempt at Goofy, one of my favorite cartoon characters of all time. Gorsh!

Name Art

I created this picture for a neighbors' new baby girl. It's based it on the design of they chose for the baby's room.

Taz

My attempt at the classic Warner Brothers character, Tasmanian Devil.

Super Friends

My daughter Abby has been bit by the comic book bug. (thanks in part to seeing my comic collection in the basement) One of the comics she's been buying is Super Friends based on the Mattel superhero toys. I thought I'd try my hand at super hero drawing and here's what I came up with based on an image from one of the comics. (note - no Wonder Twins....thank God)

This was a black marker on white paper image that I used photo shop to color. As an experiment I will also post the same image colored with markers.

Update: The second image is colored with markers.

IF Subtract

This week's Illustration Friday topic is subtract. It got me thinking back to learning basic math facts in elementary school. Being a child of the 70s my parents bought me the "Little Professor" calculator to help me practice my math. An electronic version of flash cards.

I actually found this in the basement a year or so ago (the benefits/curse of being in a family of pack rats) and it still worked. I gave it to my oldest daughter to use but I believe she just thinks it's an antique. (and she's not necessarily wrong)