Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Sketches I did in the Pacific Northwest

After driving from Ohio to Washington (with my Katie cat), I was so messed up I just couldn't draw for a while. In fact, I hadn't gotten out my Little Sketchbook again until I had lived there for a year - and my Katie Girl died! I was so sad. I wasn't allowed to mourn, however, until years later.
` Anyway, to help cope with my grief, I tried going back to drawing labels. Here you go - Opus the Penguin blended with peach tea! (I lived in the high-rise next to the Co-Op at this time, having moved there the day Katie died.)


peachopus Yes, HonesTea - because they're honest about what they put in their tea! Hey... OMG! It's Butters the Insane Cat! That's right! And you can see her go insane! And; hear her beg for a visit from her best friend in the world - Food! (Hilarious stuff!)

buttercookies This is also around the time when Jason Baxter and company had returned from Canada. Also, notice that there's a reference to Everyone Knows it's Butters! "That's Me!"


jasonbandbutters I drew that Jason picture because I also was planning to draw this guy, EdgeWalker, who also happens to be named Jason in real life. See how very different they look? (More photos/drawings of EdgeWalker vs. Butters hilarity right here!)

edgewalker He did a lot of computery things, and frankly, I'm pleased the way the Jason sketches turned out, complementing one another somewhat.

` Anyway, these are the last of my Little Sketchbook sketches which had been captured with his camera and had been sitting on some hard drive or another, nearly being destroyed once or twice, but miraculously surviving. (Thank goodness for backup drives!)

` I uploaded them for this post in February, but kept forgetting to finish these posts until more recently. Hey, to those of you still out there; thanks for your patience!

` The only newer sketch in the Little Sketchbook at the moment was done almost a year ago in compensating for not drawing our little alien furballs when we first got them....

5 comments:

Monique said...

I don't know what's wrong. Again, I can't see any pictures. So annoying.

Spoony Quine said...

Have you tried clicking on the places where the pictures should be? That takes me right to them....

Unknown said...

I'm glad you did lose those sketches! Thanks for sharing! Alex says Meeee-ooooow to his fellow kitty katz.

Middle Ditch said...

Hi s e e quine. I was finally able to see them all. And they are great. I particularly loved the last one.

Spoony Quine said...

Thanks, glad they finally worked!

You know, I keep thinking of sketches done by famous artists from way long ago... if mine somehow should be added to them, it seems bizarre to me that a sketch of a computer mouse would be from 'way long ago'. You know what I mean?