drawings from life

yup...she was real



i bring my sketchbook to bars sometimes

#160 Black and white live caricatures

Small Town Missouri fair

I took this video on the Sunday morning at the fair. The town square was basically turned into a church variety show, with real cheesy Jesus music and reverends talking about the churches and sin. This was a play about Jesus versus suicide. Quite frankly it scared the crap out of me.






I worked this fair with Anthony and Zach, two old friends from the first theme park I drew at Six flags St.Louis.

This year I've begun to take on the challenge of new mediums in the chair. For 10 years I've drawn live caricatures almost exclusively in graphite and airbrush, so I thought it was time to lean a more portable method, marker and color stix. It's gotten me out of my comfort zone and makes me think more about execution . I've got a long way to go before I'm happy with my abilities with this medium, but i thought I'd share a few from this particular weekend anyway. I know there's a lot of dude's out there that really know how to use this stuff, please give me some tips and comment's. These drawings both took about 10 to 15 minutes

St. Louis Larpers




My friend and I stumbled across these people by accident on a Sunday afternoon in Carondolet park.
Grown-ass men playing pretend dungeons and dragons......for real.

#157

douche-bag singer of My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.

#156

dancing muffin top

#155

this ex-stripper did not age well

#154

girl at bar 2

#152

New sketchbook.....yaaaaaaaaaaaay

#151 12 gauge blues




12 gauge blues was my band when i lived in St.Louis Mo.
It started in 1998 and lasted until 2003. We played lots of shows at dive bars , "punk" venues, basements and nightclubs....We all had Jobs so the furthest we traveled was Columbia, mo..
It was all for fun and artistic expression ,although we liked getting paid, it rarely happened.
I miss performing but I have some really good memories.

follow this link to hear a 1999 recording of
"Still wanna die" by 12 gauge blues
originally performed by Cheetah Chrome and Jeff Dahl

#150 Amsterdam, Netherlands

#148

angry girlfriend giving her boyfriend the business at a cafe

#147 van gogh museum


Van Gogh museum patrons....

#146

waitress

#145


These are 2 Actresses from Andy Warhol movies. I went to a really big Andy Warhol retrospective at the Stelijk museum CS. It had 80 or so movies and videos projected onto big white walls. A lot of the films were just 15 or 20 minutes of a single persons face talking or staring . Like a video potrait. I had my sketchbook with me and drew some of the faces.... these were the only ones i liked

#144




various tourists visiting the Netherlands

#143 amsterdam

this is a hipster college student hanging out at the hash bar

#141


This is a receptionist at the bulldog hostel. He was friendly and somehow efficient despite being stoned at work all day.

#140 amsterdam sketches

this guy was on the hostel search kiosk

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#138





american tourists checking into the bulldog hostel

Jert in Amsterdam

Last fall i bookended my trip to the Kruger workshop with stays in Amsterdam.
I did a lot of drawing at the hostel I stayed at of strangers and tourists. I will post this series of drawings every other day over the next few weeks.




This banner is in the middle of a family friendly shopping complex much like an american mall. I love the european popular attitude toward nudity.



krokett anyone?


this is a drawing out of my sketchbook of two coked up, drunk britts bullying their hippy coworker at the bulldog hostel in the Red Light district. The bald one caught me drawing it and made a big loud scene. Luckily everyone in the group liked it and they insisted on having it. I drank all night with them and they insisted on buying all my drinks. The hippy sounded just like "neil" from the "young ones"....He told me that he arranges his records by color...."sometimes a record just sounds blue...or red...y'know".
maybe he deserved to be bullied a little bit.