Behold, The Auburn!!!

My family and I went on a sort of one-day-holiday to Auburn, Indiana, specifically the Auburn Cord Dusenburg Museum, where these rolling pieces of art were manufactured. This is my favorite.

I've always had a soft spot for the Auburn 852 Boattail Speedster, I had a little Hotwheels model of it when I was a kid and it has, since then, become nothing less than a dream car for me.

These were meticulously manufactured for those who had deep pockets and had a need for speed. These cars were rolling sculptures and were the epitome of the jazz age.

Needless to say, I was in heaven looking at various cars like these. I ran around and found that I had taken over a hundred pictures, my dad, the ultimate car guy in the house, had taken well over hundred as well. We were like kids in a candy store, basically. It was great.

Until next time, I'll be cruising around in a great 1916 Dodge (boy, I wish)...

Perhaps more pictures to come....

Things to Come...

This is a caricature of an artist that I am using for an article that I am writing over the artist Winsor McCay. I really enjoyed drawing and painting this one. The actual portrait of Winsor McCay and the frame around him, as well as Little Nemo, the boy, was drawn with a Micron pen. The rest of it was drawn (including the hair of Little Nemo) with a dip pen and waterproof ink and the whole of it was painted with watercolor paint.

I Speak for the Trees

Drawn with a Micron pen and painted with watercolor paint.

Just Mucking About

This was just something I did merely because I was bored. I have no clue what in blue blazes it could be, possibly something from the mind of H. P. Lovecraft (?), but I enjoyed drawing and painting it. After I painted it I went to a site called picmonkey and did the frame and the words Good Day above it.

This was drawn with a dip pen and ink and then painted with watercolor paint. After the paint dried I then drew out the paisley design on his lapel and the iris as well as the feathers with a Sharpie pen (blue and red).

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The Trumpet & The Sniper

In light of it being the Fourth of July, a pretty big deal in America, I thought that  good story was in order for this particular day. This story is about a veteran by the name of Jack Leroy Tueller who served during the Second World War. I shall let Mr. Teuller tell the rest of it because it is pretty amazing.

This story also inspired the great short film company called Whitestone Motion Pictures and their latest short film entitled Lili Marleen is a re-telling of this great story.

Hope you all have a happy Fourth of July, here in the US and otherwise.

The Doctor Is In, Pt. 2

Here is the second (and last) part of my parodies of the famous Doctor Who.

Doctor When & his companion, the misanthropic squirrel, Hedley.

Doctor Where & his trusty sonic plunger

Doctor Why & his companion, the sarcastically silent parrot, Bob.

I had a great time creating these oddball characters, granted they might be rather lame jokes, but I enjoyed creating them all the same. The inspiration of Doctor When was a combination of the Fourth & Tenth Doctor (who I have a soft spot for since I grew up with Tennant's Doctor), and, rather obviously, the movie Blazing Saddles (where I got the name of Hedley from). The inspiration of Doctor Where was a combination of the Ninth (hence the leather jacket), Fifth (due to the sneakers) Tenth (the sort of gravity-defying hair, the sort of paisley tie, and, in turn, the sneakers), & the Eleventh Doctor (my current, all-time favorite). Doctor Why's inspiration was derived from the Fourth (the scarf and long coat), the Fifth (the sneakers), & the Tenth Doctor (hence the sneakers and long coat, again) also the way it was drawn and painted was inpsired by illustrator Edward Gorey and they were all drawn with the same medium as the previous two. Hope you readers enjoyed them!



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The Doctor Is In Pt. 1

As you readers can tell by the previous posts I've done recently, I'm a bit of a fan of Doctor Who. So, just purely out of whim, I decided to create other versions of the famous Time Lord. Behold, here starts the unlikely exploits of the Good Doctor's rather ragtag bunch of Time-Lords and traveling comerades.

Doctor What & his Outrageously Ostentatious Overcoat of Obscurity.

Doctor How & The Incredibly Slow Snails From BEYOND!

Hope you readers enjoy them! There will be more to come!

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Notes: the first drawing was inspired by the Seventh & Sixth Doctor and the last one was inspired by the Fourth(one of my favorites), Seventh (another favorite), and the Sixth Doctor. They were drawn with a Micron pen (point 01) and painted with watercolor paint.

Further Exploration

 I've been still doing some test runs with my new Micron pen and this first drawing is based off of a hovercar from a book that I recently finished called The Search for WondLa, by author and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi. It is a great book and so is the one that follows it called A Hero for WondLa, I highly recommend them.

This next drawing is of one of my favorite characters, Severus Snape from Harry Potter. Granted this one isn't finished yet and he isn't dressed in his professorial robes, but I thought that it would be interesting to draw Snape in civilian clothes and lost in thought, so to speak. I'll be posting the finished product up here soon.
This last drawing was just a little character that I doodled one day and just inked it with the Micron.
Right-o, thanks for enduring the rambling, I'll have something official up here soon, with any luck.

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Bigger On The Inside

When looking for time travel stories it seems virtually and astronomically impossible not to stumble upon the television show Doctor Who. It is, like I said in my previous post, one of my favorite shows and I watched an episode entilted "The Doctor's Wife," written by the amazing author Neil Gaiman. As I was watching it an idea kind of popped into my head: "What if I had a Tardis?" I then went into the sort of mechanics about my version of the Tardis and what it would be like. The idea was what if this model of the Tardis would get sort of everything from every sort of era imaginable and sort of mashed it all together and it would have various doors that lead you through different ways, or something like that. I then set to work. What I did first was do various sketches of the classic police box from the show itself, and other actual police boxes, and then I just devoured history books and looked at the artistry from various eras. For some odd reason, I couldn't just abandon the notion of the Tardis being a police box, so I kept the sort of basic layout of a police box, complete with a light at the top of it. I then just did various eccentric designs for the doors (you can't see the others, but there are 4 doors all together, just thought I should clear that up). As I was drawing this I was also watching Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock and I then I saw the lantern that is on a rail that stands in front of the door of 221b. I then decided to put, at the top of every door, a sort of lantern, which will comprise of various colors when I'm finished.

I then decided to test my new Micron pen that I bought and just drew over my pencil marks and erased the pencil when it was dry. What I then did was do a base of light blue, another homage to the show, and just started using various colors to see how it turned out. I'm not quite done, but I shall keep you folks posted as soon as I make progress. Hope you enjoy it and try something like it, too.

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The Tardis is Cool & So is Quidditch

 I had recently bought a Micron brand drawing pen (with a point of 01, for those who are curious) and, instead of the usual dip pen and ink, I decided to take the Micron for a test run, so to speak. This first scribble here is just a sort of mash-up of my favorite things about one of my favorite television shows, Doctor Who, so I just sort of made up my own version of the main character, The Doctor, with his trusty sonic screwdriver and a shortly-lived fez. The colored bits in this drawing were done with a Sharpie marker and a fine-point Sharpie pen (red for the tartan design on his coat and blue for the bulb of the sonic screwdriver).

This next drawing was just one of my all time favorite books when I was growing up, Harry Potter. I could go on and on about it and how just bloody awesome and inspiring it was, but that's for another time. Granted, it might not be a good version of the Boy Who Lived, but, like I said, it was a test run. This drawing was painted with watercolor and I used red Sharpie pen to emphasize the red stripes in Harry's sweater (and it might look like his sweater is red and white, but I swear I meant for it to have the Gryffindor colors, and sorry, in advance for the sort of ovular frame around Harry, it's a bit wonky, I know).

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