You Bet Your Life

Teaching my 7th graders about pointillism. About as much fun as you can have with a Crayola Washable Marker without having to take a shower.

Freelancing

Here are a couple of cartoon illustrations that I did today.


This one (above) is for a designer in Delaware. She was a regular reader of my Pirate blog and recently asked if I'd consider doing a caricature of her that she could use for her Facebook profile picture. Below is a revamp of one I'd done for Camp Okoboji, Lutheran Summer Camps her in Iowa.

Spaghetti Western

Here's an illustration I did for the feature layout done on a Community Fund-Raiser/Theater entitled "The Saga of Sagebrush Sal" that ran in our local Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper

Be-Bop's

The summer after graduation, before college, I was a short order cook at a 50's night club run by the mob. Okay, I sucked at being a short order cook, so I begged them to make me a prep-cook rather than just a dishwasher and I don't know for sure that it was owned by the mob, but everybody said so. Our boss did kind of remind me of Tony Soprano. Anyway, he asked me to illustrate some fliers for them and this was one of the pictures I drew for him. Bad business model; just volunteer to do something without negotiating compensation ahead of time. Another bad business model; don't do stuff for mobsters. Anyway, it was cool to see this on pink table "tents," but it was a lot of work for just a summer job.

Here's how much better it could've been if I had had Photoshop back then-