Ferocious: you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry

Goodness.  Don’t touch my freakin’ lollipop!

My 5 year old came home today from school saying “freakin’”.  Gotta let those go.  Make a big deal and it sticks more often than not.  Most of them pass him by.  A few weeks ago he said, “Daddy, the ‘f’ word is really bad.”

My wife and I looked at each other and did the silent “woah” and I said, “No kidding?  What’s the ‘f word’?”

He looked around to make sure the coast was clear and whispered, “fight.”

Whew.  Still 5.

Hope you like the illo.  Happy Friday.

Mesmerized

 

Ooooooooooh.

disguise: big & bad

Been a while… good to be back doing some i.f. stuff.  Lord knows I’m tired of painting this house.  Almost done.  NEVER paint the entire interior of a house at one time.  My two cents.

Anyway, not sure what’s up with the morbid thing that ties my two last post together.  Don’t know that I’ve ever drawn two illos in a row with x eyes in my life, but this was the first thing that came to mind after reading the theme for this week.  Anyway, hope you like.  It was good to start drawing again.

Shadows

I skipped last week’s IF theme.  First time since I started doing this some months ago.  I feel guilty.  I had half a drawing and didn’t feel like finishing because, I hate to say it… this forcing myself to draw every week finally started to feel like work.  Sucking the fun AND ink out of my pen.  Bleh.

Anyway, moving on:  I was in the mood this weekend since I finished report cards, and well… here you go.

Shadowy, no?

Rawr.

Soaked

Why?  Because you know anyone who could calm the seas would have made some nice waves if surfboards had been around.  I just always wonder what Jesus would’ve been like had he been around today.  You know… contemporary Jesus.  Some people like their Jesus apocalyptic and divisive.  I like mine laid back, inclusive, and all about love.  My Jesus would’ve surfed.  Unless there was someone who needed some help…

’cause after all, he’s still Jesus.

Safari

Masks.  Gotta love ‘em.  I had trouble coming up with an idea that I was enthused about this week for IF’s theme of “safari.”  My original looked like this:

but it was a little cartoony for me (like I don’t draw/illustrate with a “cartoony” style regardless…).  I did like how it reminded me of Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back.  Everyone knows The Giving Tree, and that’s a great book on unconditional love, but Lafcadio’s even awesomer.  It’s not just one of my favorite Shel Silverstein books, it’s one of my top five children’s books of all-time (and after teaching for ten years, you know I’ve read a few).  Great story on being yourself, and the narrative voice Shel uses in it is hilarious.  Highly recommended.  Anyway, hope you like the African hunter and hey, what the heck, hope you like the mounted trophy hunter too.

how awesome is THIS

I was inside honing dinner whilst the bbq was going outside today.   My kid was out there chalking it up and when I came out to flip the chicken I was blown away.  He was using chalk, water, sea shells, and a big ol’ stick to come up with this mesmerizing work of art.  The boy’s got skizznillz.