sorry about the delay

I haven't been doing as much sketching lately, I've been sorely lacking inspiration but hopefully I'll come out of it soon. Anyway, all I can remember about this page is that the guy on the bottom left was my attempt at doing some type of Garbage Pail Kids looking guy. I think.
I found this awesome book of old carnival illustrations and so tried to draw a few of the woodcuts and lithographs from it. Like usual, I gave up and let my mind wander and came up with the rest of what's on the page.
For some reason I was in the mood to draw people in period costumes, so there ya go.
The critters on the bottom part of the right page were designs for a Munny I finally completed. If I can ever find my digital camera I'll post pictures of it.

the little sketchbook that could

I'm thinking about turning "The What Bus" image into a large painting, but chances are I won't.
After getting the awesome "Terr'ble Thompson" book by Gene Deitch, I tried drawing some of the characters and realized he is a cartooning god among mere mortals.

More melting snowmen and dripping snot. What's wrong with me?
I bought a vintage Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters figure on ebay and the blue guy on the left was born.
Lots of happy people on these pages despite the guy on the right side of the left page wanting to die.
Trying to draw more Gene Deitch characters and, of course, more dripping stuff.
Vomit! And Lard Nuggets! Seriously, what's wrong with me?!?!

after a painfully long wait....more sketches

After messing around with the colored pencils some more, I've discovered that I really like the terra cotta color. It makes the drawings have that old photo look, check out the guy with the bow tie on the right page to see what I mean.
I'm thinking about making the little guy on the bottom left a painting, not really sure what he is but it could be interesting. The devil guys and the monsters on the right page were from a Taschen book about devils, those Renaissance fellers came up with some disturbing imagery!
Copying some old advertising characters and trying out some designs for some figurines I want to make. I bought a bunch of old Fisher Price little kid toys with the big round heads and cylindrical bodies and decided to repaint them with my own characters. If I ever get some done I'll post pictures.

more sketches...wow!!

The page on the left is me trying to draw Popeye (again!) as well as some awesome Joost Swarte characters. I'm still working with the colored pencils, I really have to be in the mood for them otherwise they're quite a chore.
I think I drew these pages after watching some Fleischer cartoons, which I've discovered to be a healthy alternative to illegal narcotics.
Not really sure what this idiot is saying "Whoa" about, but apparently the other characters don't give a crap.

I really want to thank everyone that's left me positive feedback on these stupid sketchbook pages. Nice to know there's a few cool people out there that don't mind a little random weirdness every now and then.

hey look, more sketches!!!

Colored pencils: just like regular pencils, but colored.
Must have been a late night, I can't remember drawing this page.
Trying to copy some Mary Blair drawings, but gave up and let the weirdness take over.
Snowmen just have to sing I guess.
Popeye is a damn hard bastard to draw.

This is how I spend my hours at work, doodling in the front inside cover of my sketchbook.

Finally! I got a DRAWN! mention!!

I got a mention on one of the best artist blogs ever to exist in the universe:

http://drawn.ca/2007/01/11/david-degrand/ I've loved this website forever and to get a mention on it is a pretty big deal to me, so I'm excited. To celebrate, how about some more sketchbook crap?!?!

More stuff from my little sketchbook.

Cool toys

After reading John K's amazing post about why older toys are amazing and toys today are pieces of crap, I dug out this old book I had about toys from the 50's and 60's and decided to scan and post some of my favorites. I think everyone will agree that they don't make 'em like they used to.