Why I Would Not Have Survived the Battle of Hogwarts

From my sketchbook. Don't forget, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 AND Shark Week are both fast approaching!

Chades Challenge: Texas Sharks Curling Team

Had to participate in this Chades Challenge! Here are a couple of sketches:

Sketchbook stuff (and my portfolio website)

I finally got around to building my portfolio website. Still working out some of the kinks but it's online now! My latest storyboard sample can be found in the sequential section. Huge thanks to Chris for helping me get this set up.

I also scanned a few more sketchbook doodles and played with some of them in Photoshop.

These are some folks I saw in and around It's a Grind:




And these are some quick brush pen memory-sketches of a guy I saw while at a friend's b-day celebration at Red Lion Tavern. The room we were in was crowded to capacity (because Jeremy is so darn popular) and most people were busy eating/drinking/chatting. Everyone was sitting down except for this lone tall guy in a brown Hawaiian shirt who stood in the corner, slowly eating his food while glowering at the rest of us. He sometimes paused to read aloud from the book he brought, but he mostly just did this:


I wasn't scared of him...

I swear....

Levitation (aka my first lesson in physics)

Here is another true story from my childhood. This also took place when I was around preschool age.

Like most kids, I had a very random assortment of toys to play with when I was young. I also carried a baby-blanket everywhere, often draping it around my neck like a scarf.


One day a random but thrilling thought occurred to me.


My 3 1/2 year old brain had figured out how to levitate.


It was very simple. All I would need was my baby blanket and a little effort.



In my mind this was how it was going to work...please note that my unsophisticated childbrain did not yet have a full grasp on the workings of gravity (or the limitations of my upper body strength) and this made total sense to me:






It was going to be awesome.

Once I was able to levitate...I would float around to show people how freaking cool I was...



All of the other kids on the playground would be envious of me...


I would never have to worry about slogging through mud puddles after it rained.

I was going to make such a kick-ass ghost at Halloween.


I was going to be the coolest. kid. ever.


Unfortunately, I failed to be as awesome as I'd hoped.

This is the sad reality of what actually happened:





Epilogue..this didn't stop me from trying to replicate the "levitation experiment" with a jump rope mere days later.

Giant Iguana Cave Beast Thang

He's a little cartoonier this time.