Latest Sharpie drawings of mine- 9/26/2018

 This is my take on a photo Barspinner Ryan Brennan, now an accomplished free diver, snapped.  It was just a cool pic, and I like drawing animals, so I wanted to give it a try.  It's 11" x 14," and with Ryan's OK, I'd like to sell some copies of this one.  I definitely need to do more water oriented drawings like surfing, diving, sea animals, and all that.  They work good with my Sharpie style.  Sharpies on paper, #sharpiescribblestyle

 The top of these two pics is a small Bob Marley drawing I did.  It's 8 1/2" X 11," and there may be some copies available around if you dig it.  The bottom pic is a close-up of the drawing of Mike Ness of Social Distortion drawing that was in the last post.  This drawing is in th epossession of Social Distortion themselves, now.  In nearly all of my musician drawings, I put lyrics, song titles, and album titles in that background.  Up close you can read them, but from 10 feet away or so, they blend into a cool background texture.  Both are Sharpies on paper, in my unique scribble style.  #sharpiescribblestyle

I had been drawing different things in my scribble style with Sharpies for years before I got around to looking up Sharpie art online.  The coolest stuff I found then was black and white "doodle art" by artist Jessie Armand.  I've been trying to do similar stuff, just for the heck of it, ever since.  My doodle drawings aren't as cool as Jessie's, but I like doing this type of drawing when my brain is tired from my more tedious scribble style work.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".

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Recent drawings 9/16, 2018

 Just did this one a week and a half ago, sold cheap to a gallery here in Richmond, VA.  This is the second Notorious B.I.G. drawing I've done.  The owner bought a couple other of the drawings I brought with me from NC.  I just got out of the hospital then, and I was hatin' it, and needed to get a room to recover.  So I sold a couple cheap, and then  did this one.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24

 This Robert Plant drawing is the first one I did when I first got to Richmond.  Some of my two month backlog of drawings to do bailed out when I left NC.  So this one was next on  the list.  I actually learned quite a bit about Led Zeppelin, listening to documentaries as I drew this one.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".

I decided to draw some smaller, 8 1/2" X 11" pictures, and make a few prints to sell.  I started with Johnny Cash, The Man in Black.  Then I just did the Bob Marley last week.  I haven't sold any of the prints yet, but several people commented that they like the Johnny Cash pic.  I'm not sure why Bob is sideways.  Maybe he's stoned and just fell over.  Sharpies on paper, 8 1/2" X 11".

One day...

Life is a weird adventure.  In order to get my life and my work back under my own control, I had to leave most everything I had behind a week ago, and get as far as I could on $65.  I've spent the last 6 1/2 nights sleeping outside in a city I'd never been to before last week.  I slept under the stars on a loading dock last night.  I drew one picture to sell this week, and today I'm trying to sell another drawing or two so I can move on to the next step, hanging with a Facebook friend for a week or so, and doing some more drawing.  And then, back out West...

I was just feeling like some Matisyahu to get me psyched for the day's adventure.  Theme song for the next little bit of my life.  "Sometimes I lay under the moon, and think, Aaaaah, I'm breathing.  And I pray, Don't take me soon, 'cause I'm here for a reason.  Sometimes in my tears I drown, but I never let it get me down, and so when negativity surrounds, I know some day it'll all turn around..."
-Matisyahu

My recent Sharpie art, part 5

 This is the last of my Sharpie "scribble style" drawings I've finished.  This drawing of Tupac Shakur was supposed to be for the current Earshot Music show, but it sold before it made it up on the wall.  I'm working on a replacement right now.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

 This is the Kurt Cobain drawing I did, in the online flyer version, because it's way better than the photo I took.  Photo by Phred at Earshot.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

 This is the first order for a drawing I got form the Earshot Music show.  "Bob Marley: One Love."  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

This is my personal favorite of the drawings up right now at the Earshot Music show.  "Tainted Love" is a great song, and I was looking for an excuse to draw Harley Quinn from the Suicide Squad movie, inspired by this fan video using Marilyn Manson's cover of the song.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Available. 

For anyone who's curious, these drawings take about 25 to 35 hours each to draw.

"We were all a bunch of dirtbags"

This is a drawing of Bob Marley I just finished a few days ago.  What can I say, I've been doing creative things my whole life.  I've been drawing since somebody put a crayon in my hand before I can remember, like many of you.  But I'm a late bloomer.  So now, in my 50's, my drawings in my unique "scribble style" technique with Sharpies.  My first solo show at indie music shop, Earshot Music in Winston-Salem, NC, opened a couple weeks ago.  Here's the Winston-Salem Journal artist profile that came out just before the show, written by Lisa O'Donnell.  I gave props to my BMX and action sports roots, and named a handful of the creative people who inspired me.  There was no way to list everyone, but a few of you are named in the article.  Thanks to all of you other former "dirtbags" of the action sports world for showing me that getting art out to the world is actually possible. 

I'm on a couch right now, not fully homeless.  I'm looking to sell enough drawings to get a cheap room as soon as I can.