400 Blows sketching

Do they look French?
Really enjoyed the movie The 400 Blows.
And the torso standing up is a copy of Claire Wendling's Lions. She's French. The fat headed guy bottom right is Robert Gibbs. I don't think he's French.

The German Pencil Wars

Some FYI historical facts on the oldest pencil makers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703694204575518001143593666.html

Return of the Blackwing 602?

Ellis originally passed this on to me. The California Cedar Pencil Company has looked to bring back the famous Blackwing 602 pencil in the form of the Palomino Blackwing. This is a big experiment for them and will fans of the "classic" original buy off on it? Who can say. Went on sale this Friday at their website. I ordered a dozen, not cheap (after shipping) around $2 a pencil. I'll run tests of my own as I still have several BW 602's I use sparingly. (collector prices for the REAL deal runs around $20-$40 a pencil on Ebay). They say they have them made in Japan, which is a good thing as the Japanese love their pencils and make good ones.

http://www.pencils.com/blog/category/new-products

http://www.pencils.com/palomino-blackwing-12-pk

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2010/10/01/pencil_pushers_excited_for_new_blackwing/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwing_602

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Boxes-Blackwing-602-pencils-24-new-pencils-/110593322547?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19bfe02e33

Click Headline for A famous Artist Course on Clothing Folds

Down loadable PDF at the bottom of the post

60 second doodle of a weird thought that popped into my head

Mirror world thing.

"Thompsonian Supper"

This post shows in startling clarity the un-imitatable nature of Ron's "Thompsonian Sketches."

Look how bad this looks compared to Ron's!

--and I really tried!

Ah, blessed artistic diversity.

(I figure posting pale imitations might provoke R.T. into sharing more of his work....)

My Tuesday contribution

Here's the latest of my single panel cartoons that I've been posting for a while now... click on the title for more!

Project

These are some sketches for one of my projects. They are inspired by some old-time Halloween decorations that I have seen. I'm going to customize a couple of Pumpkin Head vinyl toys by Rose Art called Color Blanks. They come with markers and stickers for customizing but I'm going to use acrylic paint. As soon as I decide which designs to use.