For quite a while, I wanted to draw a set of eyes real big, just to see how it would look in my style. I asked a Facebook friend if I could draw her eyes, since she had beautiful green ones. She knew me well enough to not get creeped out, and sent me a few selfies to work from. To help her green eyes pop, I looked for a way to make the background red or near red. My idea was that she was peeking through an a hole created by a missing brick, in an old brick wall at her boyfriend, in a broken down part of the city. But nearly everyone who saw this finish drawing thought it was creepy. It wasn't meant to be.
The words in the background in the bricks are a bunch of quotes from music and literature about eyes. I was actually stoked on the final drawing. But this is one of the ones I lost when I couldn't afford to keep paying my storage unit rent last year. Bummer. I drew this in 2020, or early 2021. I planed to save this for an art show. But I lost the original, and never got a copy to my eye model. 18" X 24", #sharpiescribblestyle
This taxi driver drawing was one I did just for myself, to remind me of my 6 1/2 crazy years driving all kinds of people, from homeless people, to a billionaire, from proper church ladies, to porn stars, from stone cold sober, to drunk maniacs. I lived in my taxi for 5 1/2 of those years, and I have hundreds of pretty crazy stories form those days. I actually got into a cab one day, and another driver had written "Drive, Die, Cash" behind the visor, on the roof, in pen. Those three words seemed to sum up taxi driving better than anything else. Unfortunately, this is another one I lost when I lost my storage unit last fall (2021). Again... bummer. But shit happens. 18" X 24"
I did this drawing, and put the original on a skateboard deck, for the 2020 Boozer Jam. That's an annual BMX jam at Sheep Hills in Costa Mesa, which started as a fundraiser for Mike "Boozer" Brown, who was paralyzed at a race in 2011, I think. Mike died in 2019, and so the 2020 jam became the first memorial Boozer Jam. This deck was raffled off, and someone later mounted a small clock in the top of it.
Not a Sharpie drawing. This is one of my "M.C. Escher Skatepark" drawings. It's a freehand pen and ink drawing, blending my high school drafting isometric skills, with a little absurdity. I started drawing these while working at BMX Action and FREESTYLIN' magazines, way back in 1986. I hadn't done any in years, and drew a couple a few months ago. They were quickly snapped up by a Facebook friend, after I posted them. 9" X 12"
I first drew a Grey alien in about 1998, and started drawing them smoking cigarettes in 2009, I think. Sparked by learning about NFT's, and all the generated art series, I started drawing a bunch of my aliens small, all with funny sayings. I even came up with a little backstory on them, and I call them Grey Trash, like trailer park aliens. These are 5 1/2" by 8 1/2", and done freehand, in my #sharpiescribblestyle. I've done about 35 of this latest series of these, and I post them on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, from time to time.
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