Random Art: Time For A Quickie? Sure, Why Not?

string cheese IISo, here I am sitting around as a bunch of updates download (bleh) and the wi-fi connection being slower than usual for whatever reason is driving me batty (even after I rebooted and stopped all but two downloads). Anyway, five minutes of dinking around with a mouse in MS Paint and here you go. Okay, back to work, me. Steam sure is making me crazy with that auto-updating that can’t be stopped, but oh well. It’s two games I need to get to this weekend, so here I sit…

Random Art: I’ve Been Busy, But That’s A Lame Excuse.

The Third DancerWell, not SO lame, as I’ve been busy working on trying to make some actual money (digital money really blows when you can’t feeling it taking up space in your pockets!). Anyway, this one’s kind of unfinished (what else is new?), but that won’t stop me from letting you be the judge on whether or not it’s actually complete. Eh, well… I can always do another piece at some point (hopefully without taking so long to post it once it’s “done”)…

Random Art: All My Ghosts… And A Few Skeletons…

shade 
Meh, nothing to see here. Move along! Started this before Game of Thrones kicked off, waited until that was over (yes, it was a fantastic premiere to Season 4) and finished it while being not at all impressed with the House of Lies season finale. Bleh, that was an annoying half hour of mostly unlikable people to see. Anyway, here you go. Did I mention i don’t believe much in ghosts, either? Hey, I have enough on my plate in real life to be walking around falling over stuff every time I hear a floorboard creak or see something flit by in my peripheral vision. I don’t even think I liked Boo Berry as a cereal (because Franken Berry and Count Chocula would have beaten the crap out of me if I let one more monster-themed cereal in the house)…

Random Art: Not Quite A Tree This Time, Man. Thing Is, It Was Once…

man-thing 
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…

Random Art: Darn Kids And Their Subliminally Cheesy Requests!

string trees 

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!

Random Art: It’s National Crayon Day? Okay, Go Celebrate!

one_crayon_revenge_by_megadas-d66vhwwWah! 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!

Crayola_24So, 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!

Random Art: Rainy Saturday, Misty Scribblings…

Slightly Haunted II 

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…

Random Art: Return of the One-Track (Or Is It One Tree?) Mind…

not forgotten 

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?

Random Art (Too): Oh, What The Heck – You Were Good Today…

Walk in the Park II 
I was going to post this tomorrow or later, but I see you all did something good today and you deserve a reward. What, you thought I was going to rent more buses and take you all to the movies like last time? Ha! I learned my lesson from that debacle. Half of you got on the wrong buses and ended up in the wrong states and that was a bit TOO brain-melting to deal with what with all those phone calls I had to take and make. Anyway, I’m sticking to more arty gifts from now on. Less stress and you can’t complain, get ill from eating too much (well, art shouldn’t be eaten unless it’s made to be eaten!) or stick it somewhere it doesn’t belong. You’re welcome, by the way!

Random Art: What’s Inside My Head Is Still The Same As It Ever Was…

walk in the park 
Well, this was a spur of the moment piece where I just sat down and started fiddling and fidgeting the mouse around until I had a general idea of where I wanted to go before changing my mind and just playing it by ear until I stopped. There’s a second piece I’ll run in a day or so. It’s a “companion” of sorts, as the title is the same and it’s kind of an odd bookend. Of course, If I do a third piece that’s similar, there goes the whole bookend thing, huh? Stay tuned…