Scribbles, Updates, & a Thuggish Guy Named Thornton

 Here are some new, or rather old, doodles, but they are new to you, the readers and avid gander-ers (I know it isn't a word) to this set of scribbles. I am aware that they do not compensate for a new drawing in The Detective Scribble series, but I have been quite busy with other things at the present time. If you can hold on a bit longer, I will, with any amount of luck and perseverance, have a new drawing in that series by the end of the week. In the meantime, enjoy these couple of scribbles & keep a sharp eye out for my next post.

Here's a bit of a clue for the next detective that will be shown in the next Detective Scribbles series:

I have mentioned this detective before in the previous series of drawings

and this detective becomes very engrossed in his work,

very engrossed, indeed.

Keep a sharp eye out.

Boredom & Bow-ties

 I know I haven't posted anything in a while, but it has been an eventful couple of weeks. I would rather not go into details, but I do know that these drawings don't really compensate for the Detective Scribbles series, but I have been, as of late, very distracted. I will, rest assured, post something that goes with the series that I have been working on.
Keep a sharp eye out for my next post and enjoy these little doodles, which were drawn quickly, but they are doodles, none the less.

It's Not Easy Being Green

 Here are a couple of watercolor doodles that I did just yesterday, according to the date on this post, and they were done out pure, unadulterated boredom. There is not much to say about them, accept that they were all done with the color green being quite prominent in each of them. That is, really, the only similarity or continuity betwixt all of these drawings, so there isn't much to say.
I will be posting a new detective in The Detective Scribble series within a couple of days, with any luck. I am still deliberating which detective to post next, so if you, being a hopefully devoted reader to this random set of scribbles, have any suggestions to any detectives for me to draw, please do leave them in the comment section of this post. Thanks for enduring the rambling.

 Keep a sharp eye out for my next post.

The New Banner...HUZZAH!

If you are a diligent follower to this scribbler's website, then you'll notice that there is a new banner that adorns the top of each of the pages. It is a hand drawn banner that I had created just last night, according to the date that I am writing this post. I was just thinking that the blog was getting a bit bland with the right ordinary banner with just some simple words upon it, so I decided to doodle this quickly. Posted above is the unedited version of the post that isn't cropped and lettered via the website picnik, which I have mentioned before in previous posts. It is a faithful website that I have used numerous times to make some doodles and pictures look official. The style of the banner was inspired by an artist by the name of Eric Canete, who is a truly one of my favorite illustrators, now. Needless to say, I had a truly great time doing this great collage of various things, but one of my favorites to draw was something I called the Cthulhu Hat, the bowler with tentacles, that is holding up the sign that says "Bowlers are Cool," simply because they are. I have also done some much needed updates to the site, so do tell me what you think of it in the comment section of this post.
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Some Tintin...Well, actually Calculus

Here is the first colored picture to grace this post. Noted, it probably isn't that good, but I had fun painting one of my favorite characters in the Tintin series, the absent-minded and hard of hearing Professor Cuthbert Calculus, or, as he is known in the actual French text, Tryphon Tournesol.
This interesting little character made his first appearance in Red Rackham's Treasure in the Tintin series, the same comic the movie is based off of (see the post entitled "Nostalgia & Comics" to see the movie trailer). The inspiration for the look of Professor Calculus was from an actual person, a Swiss scientist by the name of Auguste Picard. Just as a small history lesson, Picard was a physicist and balloonist and was very tall. Herge once said that he had made Calculus a sort of "mini-Picard" because he would have to enlarge the frames if he didn't. If you would like to look further into the scientist's life click here to see the wikipedia page about Picard.
Also, as a mere side note, I realized that the character's name is actually Professor Calculus, not Doctor, but the ink had already dried before I came to that sobering fact. Most sincere apologies to those diligent readers.
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The Detective Scribbles, No. 2, Mister Nero Wolfe



For those devoted followers and readers to this blog, you will remember that I had sent out into the ether a little riddle. The riddle can be found in the previous post, to help reduce the rambling. Now, to continue, here is my new piece of work for the series entitled "The Detective Scribbles," and it is the corpulent American amateur detective Nero Wolfe.

For those who do not know of this colossal calculator, Nero Wolfe, here is a brief explanation. The character of Wolfe and his trusty sidekick, Archie Goodwin, came from the brain of one man by the name of Rex Stout, who was, coincidental, an Indiana native (which was a fact I didn't know about until early this summer). Stout, for those interested in his works, was born in Bloomington, Indiana, just a further explanation on the tid-bit of information given. Anyway, back to the character of Nero Wolfe. Wolfe made his first appearance sitting in his brownstone on West 35th street in 1934 in a story called Fer-de-Lance and it was well reviewed as being a work of genius. Since Wolfe's genesis was during a period known as "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Wolfe had more eccentricities than you could shack a stick at. For instance, Wolfe, who is described as being "a seventh of a ton" in the stories, is always punctual when it came to his meals, and his meals consisted of only the best cuisine that came from his manservant Fritz Brenner. When Wolfe was having his meals it was made clear that no one, absolutely no one, was to disturb Wolfe during his meals, which almost seems to border on the religious for any character.

Another of Wolfe's eccentricities was his absolute love of orchids. His orchidophile attitude was nearly as religious as his meals, note that I am sure that orchidophile is a severely made-up word. He tended to them as if they were family. Although these are just two of Wolfe's many eccentricities, it is true to form that Wolfe is the American version of Sherlock Holmes.

Speaking of which, you might find small, almost minute, similarities with Stout's Wolfe and Doyle's Holmes. One of which is very prominent, almost "a seventh of a ton" prominent, it is the almost uncanny resemblance to Holmes' brother Mycroft. You  could flip through the story of The Greek Interpreter and find some distinct similarities. Both of them are very, very corpulent computers, basically. It is even speculated in some circles that Wolfe is the child of Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes, which could explain the resemblance. Also this could explain the similar amount of syllables in both Holmes' and Wolfe's names. But I shall quit this speculation and try to wrap this up.

To conclude this post I shall recommend that anyone interested in Crime Fiction, especially American Crime Fiction, try to find a copy of one of Rex Stout's analytical detective Nero Wolfe and his trusty sidekick Archie Goodwin, they are certainly entertaining. Click here to go to the wikipedia page about Nero Wolfe and the Wolfe stories.

Both of these drawings, sorry for the abrupt transition, were drawn with an old fashioned dip-pen that I had bought near at the beginning of the summer. I was not qutie sure which Wolfe picture to present on this blog, because I admire this character deeply, so I cut off all deliberation and decided to post both. The one at the beginning of this post was my favorite and most faithful out of the two because of the orchid, but I had accidently put Wolfe smiling, which I found to be odd since he is such a serious character, so this second one here sort of balances it out, I think, but it is a mere speculation. I shall, perhaps put some clues for the next detective in this series before the week's out, mainly because I am still deliberating which detective to draw next. If you, being, hopefully, a faithful audience, have any suggestions, please do leave them in the comment section of this post. Thanks.

Keep a sharp eye out for my next post.