Funny Thing I Saw Today #6

I took a 3-day break because of the Easter weekend. Anyway, I'm back! And still on a Cadbury Crème Egg high!

Springtime is finally here - the air is warmer and the sun shines bright. It turns our living room into an oven. And cats like lounging in it. Our couch sits beneath of our living room window. Einstein and Olive love sitting on the couch, peering through the blinds (and wrecking them in the process). I had the blinds open this afternoon, along with a fleece blanket draped over the couch. Combine this with the sunshine, and it became Einstein's version of heaven.

Now, Einstein is usually a big blob of black fur. When she sits, she resembles a sack of oranges - black and fuzzy, of course. Then I see her today - she's stretched out like taffy on a puller! She even crossed her paws! I had never seen her that relaxed before.

I was just going to post this as the black & white ink drawing, but I really wanted to take advantage of the tacky LENS FLARE filter in Photoshop to really emphasize the sunshine. So there we go. Just a speedy digital color job. I'll get back to some marker stuff again real soon!

Funny Thing I Saw Today #5

My wife and I went out for dinner tonight. Living in a small town, we don't have many choices when it comes to restaurants. But it was a must to hit up a place with a salad bar, so off to The Frying Pan we went! The Frying Pan is basically our town's version of Perkins or Denny's.

Upon entering, I was startled by what you see above. Granted, this rendering is based on what was seared into my memory mere hours ago. They had a chalkboard advertising a 'Seafood Special' for '1075' (which obviously means $1,075!), an evil Easter Bunny on a white scribbly hill (I guess because we still have lots of snow around here?), and a sun that looked like a chalk explosion. Too many levels of wackiness here - I'll let you absorb what the wife and I did shortly before enjoying salad bar and vegetable alfredo.

Funny Thing I Saw Today #4

I saw this guy not even half an hour ago, walking down main street with his arms out like that. Really, he was walking in a 'T' shape! He wore a weird black leather/puffy winter jacket, black jeans, and black shoes. His hair was jet black as well, and it was one weird hairdo. Let's not forget his huge schnoz.

Well, I'm 4 days in, and so far I've been posting people on the street. It isn't my intent to do only people - I hope to post a variety of funny items, living or not.

Cartoony Adam & Eve

I have this assignment where I'm supposed to draw an Adam & Eve. I tried Eve first - trying to get better with cartoon girls.
Of course, I don't think the Bible says anything about Eve wearing lipgloss and orange eye shadow, so I failed in that sense.

And here's Adam. Not as refined as Eve. But I based him off the Adam in the ol' Albrecht Dürer engraving.

Funny Thing I Saw Today #3

Well, I really didn't see anything funny out in public in the last 24 hours. But to keep the streak alive, I shall post my latest creation, which technically IS funny - hence, a funny thing I did indeed see today:
It's a new self-portrait (including my cat, Einstein). Probably the cartooniest drawing of myself yet! I decided to do this updated self-portrait since my older ones look like excrement. I see some improvement but I am still terrible with drawing full bodies AND digital coloring. Oh well!

Funny Thing I Saw Today #2

I made an ATM stop in Fargo this afternoon. I pulled in to a drive-up ATM, which is convenient... if you're driving up... in a car. Well, like anyone else, this young man had to make an ATM deposit. However, he was sans vehicle. Not that there's any problem with that. I've walked or bicycled up to an ATM many a time.

Alas, it was a busy midday in Fargo, and a line of cars had formed to make their transactions. Dude stood prominently (as a Fargo thug can) and confidently strutted forward as the line got shorter. And that's what made the whole situation funny - that Holmes stood in line with a bunch of automobiles, basically letting everyone know that he was "makin' a deposit, Muthaf***er!" And yes, his baggy jeans were terribly succumbing to gravity.

Funny Thing I Saw Today #1

I decided to force myself into drawing and posting on here EVERY DAY. For reals, this time. I need to up my cartooning skills about 10,000%!

So for the next 365 days, I will be posting a drawing of something funny that I saw during the day. That means ANYTHING - inside, outside, at home, in town... whatever! Anything that I deem funny - and believe me, the dumbest things amuse me. I could glance at a Starburst wrapper and it'd have me rolling on the floor.

I have a feeling my cats will be regular guests in these posts.

So I am cheating on this first one, which is actually something I saw two days ago (which inspired the idea in the first place!):

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I saw this [rather grumpy] man on Friday walking down main street, carefully holding two Subway beverages. He was following a teenage girl (hopefully his granddaughter, yeesh) who was just skipping along with a bag of Subway sandwiches. So she got the plastic bag, with handles, able to transport footlongs with ease. Gramps could barely walk, nearly stumbling over a curb. He may as well have been walking a tightrope balancing the sodas on a 10-foot pole. Perhaps he has a frowny demeanor, but c'mon, he was moving drinks like they were Fabergé eggs. WHICH I THOUGHT WAS FUNNY!

I don't remember if he was wearing an actual Cenex hat, but it was red and a trucker's hat. Carhartt jacket, Velcro shoes, and no gloves. I filled in some green to indicate grass, but I forgot to illustrate the fact that we got 24" of fresh snow last week, so it was anything but green out there.

Still trying to get better with markers, so this was a good exercise.

Editorial #1

My new foray into editorial cartooning started in yesterday's edition of the Wahpeton-Breckenridge Daily News. Lots of flooding going on lately! Hopefully it's on its way out, even though they're predicting another round of flooding with crests just as high as before.

Here's to many more published cartoons in the future! Although I've never seen myself as someone talented enough to metaphorically portray current events in cartoon form!

My caricature business logo

Business has been growing with my live event caricature agency, so it was about time I made an official logo. Very Art Deco-inspired, as I've been all about the Art Deco lately. It reminds me of the NIN logo - something I didn't realize until after the fact!