If you make a movie like Albert Nobbs, you can be sure that there will be knuckleheads like me who become obsessed with it for all the wrong reasons. I’m sure Glenn Close is great, she always is. I’m sure the movie, about an Irish woman who dressed as a man, is uplifting and powerful. [...]
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The Many Faces Of Albert Nobbs.
Posted: December 18, 2011 in Badass Old Guys, Comedy, Drawings, Movies (A)You couldn’t be blamed for not knowing it, but this page started out as an art blog. Yeah. Clearly I forgot that little detail myself. I’m trying to get back into it, but maybe I shouldn’t start making any promises. This is a quick sketch I did while I was at work, waiting for the [...]
I’m posting this today because I need to reference it to make a point in an article I’m writing. To this day, there are still a couple good jokes and great absurd concepts in it, so I’m secretly proud of my younger self. Well, not so secretly because I just told you.
My niece wanted to color on her placemat but she wanted a picture of something to color. I asked her what she wanted me to draw, and she said “you.” It’s true; in a short time I’ve gone from a two-fisted rogue and ne’er-do-well to a guy who does things like this because a baby girl [...]
These sketches came from a project I did a few years back. Enjoy!
The original Predator movie, directed by John McTiernan, is probably one of my all-time top-ten. That’s just how it is. Great creature design by the late Stan Winston, underrated score by Alan Silvestri, and a handful of great hardasses sent running by a now-legendary movie monster. I’ve written about that flick once before, and now, this [...]
Let it not be said that I can’t recognize a cash cow when I see one. AVATAR!
It’s my dad’s birthday today! My original post featuring drawings of him was by far one of my most popular ones, so here’s a fresh drawing. Everybody wish happy things for my pops!
Just saw Tim Burton’s take on Lewis Carroll’s classic story Alice In Wonderland. There was plenty to recommend it, but it sure diverged drastically from the early imagery by Sir John Tenniel (the original illustrator of the stories.) The following is a drawing I did for my grandfather’s incredible book of poetry, To Every [...]