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.

My recent Sharpie art, part 4

 My first hero as a 5-year-old kid was Bruce Lee.  It was all because my friend Cliff's older brother had this poster in his room.  My take on the epic Enter the Dragon still of one of the most badass guys of all time.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

 Janis Joplin, blues legend and inspiration to generations of female singers.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

My second tribute to Prince, which was part of the current Earshot Music show in Winston-Salem, NC.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

My recent Sharpie art, part 3 BMX drawings

 My take on Vic Murphy's classic (black and white) photo doing a one footed tabletop off a curb.  My unique scribble style.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

 This is my drawing take on my own B &W photo of the legendary Dave Vanderspek on his GPV at the Palm Springs Tramway race in 1987.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

This is one of my earlier BMX drawings.  Ron Wilkerson with a stretched one hand one footer.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Available.

My recent Sharpie art, part 2

 I met pro surfer Karina Petroni, and a couple of her good friends, when I gave them rides in my taxi in Huntington Beach, CA in 2008.  When I wanted to try a surf picture, she came to mind.  This drawing of Karina duck diving under a wave was my first surf themed drawing in my Sharpie scribble style.  Sharpies on paper.  18" X 24".  Sold.

 This drawing of surfer Kelly Slater is done from an old photo, and is the first actual surfing drawing I tried.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Available.  Below is a drawing, "Johnny Cash, The Man in Black," is in the show right now at Earshot Music in Winston-Salem, NC.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Available.

My recent Sharpie Art, part 1

 These are not the greatest photos, but that's what I have.  For 12 years now, I've been drawing different types of drawings in my unique 'scribble style."  Two years ago this month, unable to find ANY job in this area, I stepped my art game, and started working to turn my art and writing into a living.  I didn't have a dime, literally not a dime, when I started.  Now things are gaining momentum.  So here's look at some of my drawings from the last few months.  Above is Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton doing his Superman thing.  Hey, if you don't want him to to do this, don't let him score.  Heh, heh, heh.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Gave this to a friend.

 "Do the impossible, it really pisses off normal people."  Sharpies on paper, 11" X 17".  Gave this to a friend.

Princess Leia.  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".  Sold.

Times have changed in Boise

Several times I've written about how I got into BMX in Blue Valley trailer park, outside Boise, Idaho, in 1982.  We all know that the data mining programs are paying attention to what we look up and search online, and the algorithms put ads and other stuff in front of us using that info.  Today, on the new Mozilla front page, this came up, "The King of Boise."  I started to click past it, then decided to take a look.  The article is about some dumbass kid who rode BMX and was the biggest Oxycodone dealer in Boise, apparently.

I stopped reading.  It's lame that they had to add BMX riding to a drug dealer article.  I wondered how the hell this popped up #1 on my feed, then remembered writing about BMX riding and Boise. 
Unlike the skate artist Pushead, who lived in Boise when I did, I actually really liked Boise.  There was actually a good BMX racing scene in the 80's, and I was one of the first few freestylers to help promote that in the area.  I haven't been there since 1987, but you can see from the clip above they have a great skatepark there now.  It'd be cool if someone would write a big article about that, and not about some stupid drug dealer.

A forgotten Woody Itson trick

If you started riding in the first wide wave of BMX freestyle in the mid 1980's, you remember Woody Itson as a pioneer of flatland.  If you were in the Southern California scene in the early 80's, you might remember Woody riding skateparks or getting an occasional magazine photo jumping.

But here's one even Woody might not remember.  In 1990 Woody's Diamond Back deal was over, and he was riding just for himself, according to a interview bit I just found on 23mag.com .  During that year, I was riding the amazing flyout jump at Oceanview High School in Huntingtin Beach often.  I was also shooting video for my first self-produced bike video, The Ultimate Weekend.

I just came across this still I made from the video a while back.  Woody Itson, unsponsored, throwing a switch handed jump.  In 1986, a 14-year-old Mat Hoffman debuted that trick to the freestyle world.  Four years later, Woody was pulling it off.  Heck, I made the video and I forgot this shot was in there.  You can find it at 23:52 in the video.