Ferry alternative

My cartoon for the Northeast Avalon Times! Pick one up! The poor old Bell Island ferry seems to be forever up on cinder blocks.

Cartoons

Some recent cartoons for the Northeast Avalon Times.

Puffins pontificate

My latest cartoon for the Northeast Avalon Times.

Diva Puffin

My cartoon for the April edition of the Northeast Avalon Times. Pick one up if you're in the area!

Bragging puffins

My latest silly contribution to the Northeast Avalon Times.

Alphonse relaxes in the study

This is a little pen and ink yanked from the sketchbook and layered with a bit of digital colour. Alphonse relaxing between takes for his stamp portrait? Maybe. New paintings underway... will post pix soon.

Cat catcher

My latest cartoon for the Northeast Avalon Times... a little dig at our mayor of St. John's and his recent crack-down on roaming cats.

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Puffin dood

Some puffin scratches from the sketchbook.

Fancy pants

Snow Day!

This old cartoon came to mind today as I was clearing snow. But it’s not all bad... day off work, wood stove’s cranked up to eleven, leisurely brunch, catching up on freelance work and I might even get to some painting this evening.

Bygone bugs

While digging through a few boxes of cram here at Doodlepalooza HQ, I stumbled across some old sketchbooks.

These critters were drawn for The Independent (NL) about 5 years ago. I don't recall the story they accompanied but my crackerjack sleuthing skills tell me it may have had something to do with bugs. According to my detailed notes, we've got a Garden Spider, a Cinch Bug and a June Bug.

Bottles

Lots of little bottles. From the sketchbook.

A sordid past emerges

I was thinking of doing this as a painting. Actually a series of various animal mugshots would be funny (and fun to do). Especially the giraffe.

Monkey business

I was just thinking how much better this image would be as a traditional prisoner mugshot. Lil' monkey holding up the placard with his info. Crime: poop flinging.

Smilin' doods

More scratches from the sketchbook.

Mugshot dood

Sketchy bugger.

Bukowski

Just watched the Bukowski documentary Born Into This. I think it's revived my interest in him. Read some of his poems and short stories 20 years ago. Didn't realize he'd written six novels. Must check them out. A gruff relic. But what a voice. Can't believe such a well-pickled man managed to stay alive so long.

There will be cake

Actually, there's no cake. Just a doodle of cake. Tastes like ink and pixels. Yuck.

Shady doodles

Not feeling the painting bug this past day or so. I've become a blob on the couch, devouring season after season of Stargate SG1 with occasional doodle breaks. See above.

Ill-fated cabbage

This is a doodle from an old sketchbook. I really should have redrawn it but I wasn't up for it tonight. I did, however, add some colour and shading in Photoshop. Based on a true story from the year of the Great Coleslaw Famine. Sad times indeed.

Posted for Illustration Friday's theme, Cultivate.