Playing with some 1/16″ graph paper last Sunday, I made this:

It’s nice – I’ll probably use it in this new flash puzzle I’m building – but I didn’t feel that was enough for a blog post, so I made it into a font you can download & install.

Classy, huh?

Font download link: mikefigueroapix.ttf (truetype font)

Enjoy!

More marker-work:

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Sometimes you begin an illustration with an idea of how it should turn out, but your hands just start making stuff up & you get something even better.

My scanner was a great help in making the sun glare in the clouds look just right.

Cloudburst Detail

Hope you like it. Hope you’ll say so even more.

Given my Adirondack chair didn’t make it past it’s first day, I thought I would record this one before anything bad happened to it as well.

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I made it over a year ago, so perhaps it’s a more lucky piece.

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I go through periods where I can’t stop thinking about trains, and this was made during one of those cycles.

Here’s a strange little doodle,

Often my doodles look like they could be mundane objects from a far-future place. This has the look of some kind of pan-dimensional sextant. It reminds me of an epic doodle I made while still in high school. I think I kept it – if I find it I’ll scan it for you.

Yo Ho, me hearties. Here’s a quick one for you – The Sailing Ship Columbia. I’ve copied the angle from a great twilight photograph of the ship’s rigging. I saw it on miceage.com, but I wasn’t able to  track it down today for you.

It’s sharpie & pastel on vellum. Enjoy – Or else.

Night falls on the sailing ship Columbia. Click for full size.

By the way, what are you up to these days? Yes you. The one who instead of leaving a comment sends me an email. I’m always interested in hearing what other people are working – oh! that reminds me:

My friend Blake could use some honest feedback on a new music project he’s working on. Listen to his demo track Crumbs at myspace.com/gingercube If you have a myspace account (a pox on you) friend him or leave a comment. If not, let me know what you think & I’ll pass it along. That track gets stuck in my head.

Blake might help me record some stuff of my own for your enjoyment as well. I have some MP3s from old bands I’ve been in, let me know if you want a listen.

I really wanted to get some clay under my fingernails, and here is the result: a little ducky.

Here’s the concept art, a sketch of an existing design.

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I wish all drawings would go this fast & result in something this cute.

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It actually took longer to scan/edit the images & make this post than it did to draw him. I could tell it was flowing, and usually you wouldn’t want to interrupt that but I thought it looked okay without inking, so I scanned it while it was still pencil & marker. (“Take a picture, it’ll last longer“)

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P.S.

Re: Egghead – I made a funny.

I missed a post yesterday, but not because I didn’t do anything creative: I just made food, not drawings! Sometimes I just make stuff up when I’m cooking & it turns out pretty güd.

After Wombat’s wonderful mac-n-cheese was enjoyed by all, I sat down with some sculpy. After a few minutes without inspiration, I decided to change medium. I really wanted to do some sculpting, but I don’t want to “force it”.

I found myself staring at the wall:

So here is my rendering:

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Wall art detail

Hope you like it – I do

In the book Disneyland Paris: From Sketch to Reality (by Alain Littaye, Didier Ghez), there is a small image of a great piece of concept art for Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I really like the energy in the shot, so I thought I would try see if I could capture a little myself.

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While I’m happy with the way it turned out I’m not happy with the way it scanned. I did this on vellum; with inking on the front and marker color applied to the back. This method gives it a certain luminosity which is hard to capture with the scanner. It’s this color effect that really is the point of the exercise, and in the full-size (click the above image) you can see some spots of unfortunate inking.

Hope you like it.

I drew this on Friday, but wasn’t able to get it to you until now.

Earlier this week, I saw an image of Indy which I believe to be during a scene from Last Crusade at Barnett College.  I thought it would make a good challenge for a couple of reasons:

• I have no confidence in drawing human and animal figures, so this was a good image to try to sketch (not trace) to push my envelope a bit; and
• When people think of Indiana Jones, they of course envision something to the effect of this:
  

  Source: www.indy4.info

• So if I stick to the conventional image of this character (bull whip, fedora, leather jacket, stubble), you could identify him even if I had drawn it with crayon. With my left hand. With my eyes closed.

Well that’s no good. I wanted to push myself to actually capture the person, not their effect. So here’s the image I used:

source: www.indy4.info

And the result:

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Not terrible, really. I think I should do more portraits, given this is my first in over a decade.