Bad Day for Me, Good Day for a Doodle

One of those days where I feel less than insignificant. I am an office drone, literally stamping pages of things after I process them into the office information system. I feel like I'm a sad character in a future dystopia who hasn't broken free yet, maybe I'll be the minor character who helps the hero get out, but I get disintegrated in the process, still freer than before in any case. This is all to say I didn't pay a lick of attention in the Dept. meeting we had today, but instead doodled and tried to escape a little. Yeah boy, I'm such a rebel.

Faces and Frogs In between the Lines

Cycle of Low-Level Violence at Work

Bullies don't just stop when you get out of the playground, school, high-school. They get older and meaner and bring that shit to work. Yay?
Here's a small illustration I did of how I see some of this stuff going down.

Awl Staff Meeting

We had an all staff meeting yesterday, so I got punny and sketched up some alternative meetings that could happen IN MY MIND

Sketchy Meetings-OverFlow Chart

Same meeting...She proceeds to write an almost completely unfollowable "flow chart" that runs horizontally the ENTIRE (yes ALL CAPS are needed here!!!) length of the room wall that is covered in white board...probably like 15 feet worth? I then of course imagined her to continue going onto the wall and around the room, this is just a quick sketch of that.

Sketchy Meetings-2 Hour Edition

The good part about long meetings is that they can turn into figure drawing sessions. Sometimes people hold the same pose for a long time and I try to draw it as best I can. The second not-so-good figure in the sketch kept changing his position, that's my excuse for the less-than drawing...
As a bonus I added an uncomfortable quote from the person leading the meeting. She probably didn't think much of it, but when we were all gathering into the room she said, "I have this urge to arrange people by color..." since there is a distinct lack of diversity where I work, I looked up at her like WTF since my boss is one of 3 african americans where I work (out of a total of say 70ish employees). She then quickly qualified it with "...of what they are wearing" SMH...seriously

Tetris Pieces are People Too!

Before I knew it was the anniversary of Tetris this year, I drew this on a napkin at a great bar  I frequent. I have always felt that (through my rampant anthropomorphism skillz) each piece had its own attitude. In particular the piece that has the three blocks with the one in the middle always seemed very neurotic to me. It can't decide where to go EVER!!!

Shapes: Now in Living 3D!!!

The usual 3D rectangle, the classic "my first doodle" of course I injected my gang of primary shapes with some sassitude, as is my wont.

It's Like Simon & Garfunkel met Barry White

Gold for the Price of Silver

Teeny lil Kitteh Picture

My friend at byhillary.com just had a kitten birthday (she is not a kitten, but has one...just in case there was any confusion...) and I was commissioned (haha, instant messaged) to draw up a wee icon/picture for her birthday.
After the deadline passed, I of course finally completed it. I took the original picture, outlined it heavily with a ballpoint pen, flipped the pic over and drew over the deep lines that appeared on the back of the picture, then I 'shopped it, filled it, drew a little and BAM!
Evil awesome black cat peeping behind curtain, and curious (actually more evil, but tiny kitten evil), adorable kitten out in front with the obligatory aren't-i-cute head cock to the side.
Here's the original photo: Waffle and Daisy Boo on the Window Sill, on a fake iPhone cover
Here's the one I made from that picture:

Sack Emptying

My friend Hillary of byhillary asked what's in your bag. A lot of randomness. If it is interesting or not remains to be seen by the beholder.

One Ringtone to Rule Them All

More accurately, one* outgoing cassette message to rule them all.

from the 80s

from RadioShack

titled "21st Century Funk"

behold the glory...
P L A Y it // S A V E it

via best week ever
via wfmu blog
via a dime

*There are more that I cut down from the longer cassette, I'm really not sure if I should post them due to their inferior composition. 

hand/sun ray image from a blog on god's glory, where else?

Logo for a Petsitting service

I sketched this out this morning and had the first version done by the end of the day. pretty quick turnaround for indecisive me. I'm still working on the business card and I might space these letters out more, but they are also kind of cute where they are now.
If they look familiar, they are based on a children's book hondo and fabian, and I love the fat chunky style of them, since they are sort of my style too (chunky cuteness) I pencil sketched them from looking at the drawings, then scanned, filtered, erased, painted, free transformed the living crap out of them.

Robot Boot Camp

Animals that Float Away from Ants

Behind the Scenes of a Web Re-Design: Hairballs

So I'm helping to push along the redesign of the whole library website, along with a committee full of people, and after a while, you just start to get punchy and can't quibble over where to put the next long list of options for people to choose from anymore. Here we are debating how to list the different ways that a student or other "customer" can contact a librarian for research help. A noble endeavor.
I, of course, had to 'shop in a giant cat ball onto the homepage to lighten the mood. Had to be done.

Re-editing a mish-mash is still a mish-mash

Cut Down Telephone
Note: The audio isn't mixed or anything, is kind of loud, am still working on that part, also i gotta shove the video over juuuuust a little at the beginning. Used my copy of the song with a video downloaded from youtube.

Evidence of Life

My prints are everywhere...EVEN ON THIS BLOG!

That Old House-Not With Bob Vila

It was a single family house close to the ocean in Salem, MA. It has my cat in it.

The Interview

I won't say who or when or for what, but there is always someone interviewing for something where i work. Also, for my unemployed (laid-off) friends, they have to sit there and just go through interview after interview. At some point THAT starts to feel like your new job. Just interviewing.