Back from CA, giant sketchdump post.

Just a quick post of all my crazy sketches from my CA trip.  

Here’s a whole page full of random:

Then, on the last leg of my last flight, my computer’s battery was all out of battery juice (known to some as ‘electricity’.  Weird.) so I could neither draw on my tablet nor listen to more Cabin Pressure.  I was sketching in my sketchbook, and trying, without success, to find something decent among the in-flight stations to listen to.  It was frustrating and annoying, and I was cranky and not having art fun, and then I remembered the sage advice of Mr. Neil Gaiman: 

(It wasn’t even good country music…I don’t think there is a music genre I hate without reservation…but this was just bad music AND country music and I was not amused.) 

The next day, I went to my friends’ wedding, and it was hot and miserable and I didn’t know a lot of people and those I did I hadn’t seen in a long time and had very little to say to beyond ‘yeah…so I live in Pittsburgh now.  Yep, graduated.  Graphic designer.  Gee it’s hot out.’ So I made a friend drive me to get my sketchbook (which my bff had insisted I would not need) and lounged around the backyard and doodled, again with Mr. Gaiman’s words in mind.  And then a conversation with bff#2 caused Doctor Who silliness: 

The next stuff is just a bit of randomness.  Random Ra is random: 

This was playing with value and cross-hatching and composition.  And then some rough figure doodles and a sketch of my reaction to the awful coffee in the Minneapolis/St.Paul airport: 

More random sketches…a girl riding a moose drawn by someone who does not know how mooses work.  Devil’s Butt Brand coffee, something I have encountered, sold under many other names, far too often lately.  I think I may make a print or a shirt or something.  People need to know.  And then, me being tired and representing it visually. 

When I got home yesterday, rather than sleeping, I went to a friend’s house and hung around all day.  And doodled some Sherlock and John.  I really like the second Sherlock and first John.  The second John is really really bad.  I fought with it for ages and finally we were going to dinner and stuff so I stopped.  

And that's all, folks!  

I'm off to see Brave!  I hope!