Mad Men: Paul Kinsey

The next Mad Men character I wanted to do was Roger Sterling, but after failing miserably numerous time, I switched to Paul Kinsey, played by Michael Gladis.


Drawn on actual honest to goodness paper with a ballpoint pen.

Mad Men - Peggy Olsen

Do you watch Mad Men? You should, it's really good. Tonight's episode, I thought, was particularly good, so, realizing I hadn't drawn a caricature in quite some time, I sat down at my Cintiq and gave Peggy Olsen a shot.


I was a little rusty, but it was fun. I think I may do more caricatures from Mad Men. All the characters have such interesting personalities. Peggy is very private and often forces a smile to cover up what she's really feeling which I tried to get across but could have done a better job on. Good, subtle expressions are tough.

Ottawa - Drawing on Menus with Friends

The Ottawa Animation Festival was two weeks ago and it was really cool to see my video in a theater with a bunch of kids.

In between screenings on Saturday, Sean McBride, Erin Kilkenny and I drew on menus for a bit. Towards the end David Cowles joined us and drew some nice caricatures of bar patrons.

I've barely touched this blog, so I figured I might as well share my drawing.

I definitely got caught drawing some of the people, but they didn't seem to mind. Canadians are so polite.

John McCain: Christian Enough?

I wrote this mock-commercial for John McCain before he picked Sarah Palin as his VP. Her selection has put this issue on the back burner (I guess Evangelicals are banking on him dying), but I felt like making it anyway.

Sketches

On my way back from Malaysia, I had about a week in Paris, and then a few days in Brussels and Bruges. During my time in Europe I did a bunch of sketchbook work that I'd love to share with you, but I lost that sketchbook on my last day in Bruges. So, if anyone finds a sketchbook at the Lybeers Traveller's Hostel, let me know.

Luckily I had another sketch book with me, so here are the two sketches I did after Bruges.

This one was done on the train from Bruges to Frankfurt.


And here is one done on the plane from Frankfurt to New York. I misplaced my favorite drawing pen and had to borrow one from the woman sitting next to me that didn't behave as well as I'd like.

I wonder how many sketches exist in the world done by people with time to kill on planes and trains. Probably a lot.