Okay, it’s just a few days old and not really “vintage”, but one has to be clever in disguising this sort of thing, you know. Anyway, I think I did this while waiting for yet another download to complete. Hey, a guy’s got to do SOMETHING with his hands that’s useful or creative, right? I guess this counts as one of those two (I hope)…
Yeah, yeah… I’ve slipped a bit in this tree posting stuff, but you’ve been getting some on non-Thursdays, so stop that complaining. Anyway, this one’s from a few days back (amusingly enough, just before Earth Day, but I couldn’t find the image because I’d done it on the other computer and hadn’t transferred it to a USB stick before I stepped out). Oops. Anyway, here you go and I guess I’ll see you next Thursday with a new one unless I end up posting another before that. Hey, it’s a possible probable around here…
Okay, this is an OLD piece, but I figure I had to do something for Earth Day while being somewhat earth conscious and energy conserving in the process. So, you get recycled art and I don’t feel lazy about posting it. I think that’s a very nice tradeoff, people. That and hell, I know some of you haven’t recovered from Sunday’s one-two punch of Easter AND 4/20 “festivities” (I don’t partake of either vice, but I’m not down on anyone who does unless they’re an ass about it), so you won’t even notice because you’re still stuffed downstairs and pleasantly fuzzy upstairs.
FEH. So, I log onto PSN to download the games I bought this weekend (two bucks well spent) and WHAMMO! Yep, PSN is down for maintenance. In the middle of the afternoon. On a Monday. Bleah. I did get some good news in the mail in the form of my FruitChia bar shipment arriving, but as there’s a replacement mail carrier while my regular guy is on vacation, the package was shoved and squeezed into my mailbox instead of hand delivered to my hot little hands. I didn’t see her woman-handling my goods, but I happened to drop downstairs as she finished up and was closing the mailboxes so I know who to give a glare to the next time I have to perform surgery on something packed into my mailbox in order to get the darn thing out. Anyway, whee- more trees to ogle, this time more or less complete. Hey, someone has to have a good day on this otherwise goofball Monday, right?
I decided to stay in today, nice weather aside. I had some more cleaning to do, so some of that was taken care of, but otherwise, it was a pretty lazy Sunday. Nothing thrilling to report this weekend other than I also caught up on a few shows I missed last weekend because I forgot all about them and it turns out my theory on most scripted shows not being much good after four or five seasons is holding up pretty well. Anyway, I did some artwork, too. Here’s one of two incomplete pieces from the last few days. I like the other one I did better, but like the one to the left, that’s also unfinished and my feelings may change. We’ll see, but for now, it gets the bigger picture below.
Okay, off to watch Game of Thrones and maybe one or two other things, then off to bed. Monday’s going to be busy…
The cool thing about drawing digitally is you can make mistakes and “fix” them without going through piles of paper. Anyway, this Man-Thing started out as another tree sketch, but I mucked it up a bit too much and was about to scrap it when I saw a hint of something, flipped the image, did some playing around, flipped it again and decided to keep hacking away until I got this as a result. Yeah, he sort of looks like he needs a tattoo on that arm of his and there should maybe be a low rider in the background bouncing up and down to some trippy beat, but hey – it was late and I couldn’t stop once my brain started moving my hand around. That happens a lot these days it seems, so I just go with the flow…
Ha. So, the library seems to be slipping in it’s “shut the hell up” policy, as lately, I can’t spend a few hours there writing without someone yakking on and on about stuff no one needs to hear about. Between the guy yelling out his credit card numbers and such while ordering personal care supplies, the geeky teenage guy with the whiny voice hiccuping and burping while sexting and chatting too loud with his sweetie for something like three hours non-freakin’ stop (I swear, if I hear him kiss his phone one more time, then hiccup and burp, he’s going to need a lip cast), I’m about to go postal in public. Of course, every now and then I get treated to something that’s actually hilarious like the kid today who kept begging his mom to take him home so he could have some string cheese. As he kept hitting the resend button on that vocal tweet, my brain kept hearing string TREES, so I stopped working on the article I had been trying to complete and knocked this piece out. Thank you annoying child and his mom who finally went home after something like a thousand requests for processed dairy product!
Wah! I did not know this, but it IS! As I just found out about this and am at the library, I have no crayons to scribble this post with or do a fast sketch to post. On the other hand, I do just so happen to have an old piece I did on my deviantArt page that LOOKS as if it was drawn with a crayon, so here you go. Anyway, time to get learned a little!
Here’s some handy info for you fresh from the fine folks at Crayola:
Did you know…
– The first box of Crayola crayons was introduced in 1903. It sold for a nickel and included the same eight colors available today: red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown.
– Crayola produces nearly 3 billion crayons each year, an average of 12 million wax sticks daily. That’s enough to circle the globe 6 times!
– The average child in the United States will wear down about 730 crayons by his or her 10th birthday (11,464 boxes or 7 lbs of crayons) enough to cover an NBA basketball court!
– According to Christian Science Monitor, parents buy enough crayons in a year to make a giant crayon 35 feet wide and 100 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty!
So, yeah, let the kid(s) get away with that wall decorating to-day. Who knows, you could have the next Van Gogh “ruining” your formerly freshly painted walls or other surfaces!
Yeah, the hits just keep on coming… sort of. Okay, I got really lazy with this piece, as the first sketch I did was more detailed and this piece is pretty simple compared to that. I still have that first sketch and may dive back into it at some point to pit in all those details, but we’ll see. I’m just surprised I have the time to draw these days. Okay, time to shut up and get back to work, as my backlog is glaring at me and shaking a fist or three…
Eh, another day, another tree sketch from my big head full of thoughts. What can I say? Well other than I was doing a bunch of small to large downloads this week and had some time to kill. This one was relatively quick to bang out (as you can tell). Okay, I’m off to a late start today, folks. I need to jet out of here and run walk quickly to my favorite wi-fi spot to get a post or two in before the rains come. Yeah, winter is dead, but spring has some not so nice weather surprises up its greener sleeves, it seems. Rainy weekend, anyone?
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