anniversaries

it's been a little over a year working my day job. and even though there were a couple of busy weeks a little while ago, most of the time it's dead. and now that we are getting into the characteristic 'slow time,' i thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at all the nonsense things i drew/made to save me from the boredom of the 9 to 5.

and maybe this will inspire me to do some more this time around...


before i started doodlin', i was reading about 8 hours worth of news articles from scientific magazines and other seemingly important but not retain-able information sites. i think i had read an article about the leaps of logic your brain makes when understanding something. anyway, that article made me draw up this:

i have a degree in medical illustration. which is how i get to draw up all those illustrations in medical/science text books and the posters in doctor's offices and things like that. i was pretty inspired by alex grey and tool videos growing up...but pretty quickly into the major, i realized the real reason i wanted to be a medical illustrator was to find out all the ridiculous guidelines and standards that exist...and then make fun of them. for example, to illustrate a carbon atom you have to do it in a certain color and a certain size in relation to another atom. as anal as it is, it makes sense and i get it - we are teaching people things...through illustrations... but i can still make fun of it all i want. so, because of that, i drew this:

not only does this drawing entertain my love of making fun of scientific illustration...it also includes my love of bill murray and ghostbusters.


i think i had just watched 'what about bob?' the day before, so i made this when i got into work:

this next one i can't remember why the hell i made it. i just think birds are beautifully stupid looking. i also wake up in the morning am have a phrase stuck in my head that repeats over and over again. and i can't get it to stop until i make something about it. anyway i think that this day must have been about a dodo bird.

and so that lead me to this:

and so then i started getting into doing really quick animations that were basically just studies of walk cycles. or at least that's what i told myself to make me feel like i was totally wasting my time..

i also really love dinosaurs, as much as i love birdies. so i made this banner for my etsy account (islandofmonsters.etsy.com) oh, and gene wilder is also another love of mine:

and then i made this. i must have wanted to turn these into bed sheets because the file is prepped for silkscreen...:

have no idea what made me do this one. i think it was another one of those days where i couldn't get  'hefalumps and woozels' out of my brain:

and then it started getting close to christmas time, so i made this and sent it to a few friends. it's a reference to saul of the molemen:

next i made this card. even though it says merry christmas on it, i want to say i made it for valentines day. but i can't honestly remember:

my brother michael suggested we do a secret santa for christmas last year. and i got him. so this was a sketch for a painting i made. he use to call me mad madam mim when we were younger. next to the drawing on the painting had the words: i hate sunshine, i hate horrible wholesome sunshine.:

i don't know why this line gets me so good, but i love it. so i made a drawing of it, because that felt right:

i think this was going to be another silkscreen. maybe wrapping paper or something. can't quite remember:

i was on a ghostbusters kick:

and this is a line that always seems to pick me up, and make me feel good:

well, that's a good chuck of the crap i do at work when there's nothing to be done.