GrogsBleg

Merry Christmas

2008-12-18T19:55:00.000-08:00

Here's this year's Christmas card
...and the non-alcoholic version for the kiddies:

More Tiny Drawings: 3 little fairies & a smoking turtle

2008-03-15T21:16:00.000-07:00

Tiny Tiny Pigs

2008-03-15T17:13:00.000-07:00

I've been collecting up my doodles on the edges of random papers around my desk recently, and thought I'd try posting a few. Tiny doodles always have a certain appeal for me that's harder to capture in a larger more careful piece. Mechanical pencils, post-it notes, and the edges of more "important" drawings. Here are some tiny pigs.

KC's Academy wall

2008-03-09T09:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos of the wall painting I just finished. This is at the entrance of the new infant/toddler addition to my wife's and mother-in-law's preschool. If you live on the north side of Chicago, it's a really great school. Here's the link to their website:

www.kcsacademy.com

Happy Birthday Gabby!

2008-02-06T14:35:00.001-08:00

Tomorrow my niece Gabby turns 4. Happy Birthday Gabby!

KC's again

2008-01-23T18:36:00.000-08:00

The composition of this one was bothering me, so I went in and messed with it. I think I like it better this way.

KC's Academy

2008-01-19T22:54:00.000-08:00

Some new artwork for my wife's and mother-in-law's preschool, KC's Academy. (Click the link to check out their website.)

The first piece was for their logo, the second is to be painted on the wall in their upcoming infant/toddler area.

Happy Holidays 2007

2007-12-28T18:42:00.001-08:00

Happy Holidays

2006-12-20T17:09:00.000-08:00

What the Duck?

2006-11-30T22:28:00.000-08:00

A fellow I went to college with has become an internet comic phenomenon. His internet comic is getting 3 or 4 thousand hits a day, and is about to reach its 100th strip milestone! To celebrate, he'll be showing some guest artist strips, and he made the mistake of asking me for one. For some reason his comic centers around a duck with a camera. If the previous strip made you hungry for ducks with cameras, and you'd like to see about 100 that are nothing like it (except for the duck and the camera), check out his website:

ww.whattheduck.net

Kitten phobia

2006-08-24T21:55:00.000-07:00

This week's Outsider Art Club topic was PHOBIA. There ought to be a funny scientific name for this particular phobia, but I couldn't find one.

hey a bug!

2006-08-18T11:18:00.000-07:00

Here's my entry of the week for the art club. This week's topic was "kids at play". I didn't find much inspiration in the topic, so I tried to be quick and doodly just to force myself to finish something.

I wanna be a bird

2006-08-10T20:41:00.000-07:00

I've been told that when grown-ups would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I used to say I wanted to be a bird. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into any of the good bird schools after high school, so I eventually had to fall back on the art thing.

Zombie VS Pirate

2006-08-10T17:07:00.000-07:00

Man, zombies and pirates are such jerks to eachother, aren't they? It makes me mad just thinking about it.

This is my entry for a weekly themed art thingy called the Outsider Art Club started by some friends at work. (See link at right). I'm a week late on this entry, and technically I haven't officially been added to their blog yet, but anyway here it is.

Something New

2006-05-13T09:08:00.000-07:00

My public is demanding I replace that little green bastard with a new blog entry. My public is named Mike. Here's the first drawing in my fancy new sketchbook, Mike. Grogsbleg apologizes for the delay and we regret any inconvenience this bastard may have caused you.

Lucky

2006-04-09T15:44:00.000-07:00

Mad Scientist

2006-03-07T20:57:00.000-08:00

Sketchbook doodles

2006-02-28T22:29:00.000-08:00

Sorry, it's been awhile since I posted. Here's some doodles to make it up to you. I keep a refillable sketchbook of animation paper, and it was time for a dump-and-refill. These are some I liked.

Happy Birthday Dad!

2006-02-13T14:13:00.000-08:00

A birthday greeting for my dad, from two of his best friends, and mine.

Oo and Yy

2006-02-10T15:19:00.000-08:00

Gabby age two

2006-02-02T20:20:00.000-08:00

A little birthday doodle for my 2 year old niece. Happy birthday, Gabby!

Two more organ grinders...

2005-12-31T17:15:00.000-08:00

Here's two more. (whaddya think, Mike? Feel free to play around with these ideas and try other things) Happy New Year everybody!

Organ Grinder doodles

2005-12-31T17:07:00.000-08:00

These are some concept doodles for a project I'm working on with Mike Owens (I'd turn that into a link if I knew how). An organ grinder and a pregnant monkey.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

2005-12-15T21:53:00.000-08:00

Happy Christmas and a merry 2006 to you all! Thanks to everybody who's been stopping by and leaving comments!

Two old things

2005-12-04T15:55:00.000-08:00

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. I had to put the alphabet on hold to work on a Christmas card, which I'll probably post after I've sent them out. But here's a couple of old things that most of you haven't seen yet. My wedding thank you card and an older Christmas card I did.

dad's dog watercolors

2005-11-26T16:06:00.000-08:00

Here is a chance to show how little I've done with actual watercolors.

Mr. Octoguy

2005-11-22T18:46:00.000-08:00

the letter J

2005-11-20T12:59:00.000-08:00

thursdoodles

2005-11-17T19:47:00.000-08:00

old stuff wednesday

2005-11-16T21:33:00.000-08:00

Sometimes my worst drawings are my favorites. In fact, I sometimes let my hand go lazy when I doodle, hoping for something more spontaneous and unexpected. I decided to start posting old stuff every wednesday and digging through my file cabinet, here's the first one that caught my eye. There was no date on him, but I'm sure he was drawn at least a few years ago. I don't know what it is about this little guy, but he makes me laugh every time I look at him. To those of you who only like "good" drawings, I apologize.

tuesdoodles

2005-11-15T21:19:00.000-08:00

monday doodles

2005-11-14T19:35:00.000-08:00

The Letter C

2005-11-13T15:16:00.000-08:00

The Letter Z

2005-11-09T20:46:00.000-08:00

The Letter T

2005-11-06T15:03:00.000-08:00

The Letter P

2005-11-04T20:41:00.000-08:00

The Letter B

2005-11-01T22:36:00.000-08:00

The Letter W

2005-10-29T22:07:00.000-07:00

A mouse and his cheese

2005-10-29T11:48:00.000-07:00

Just trying to get more comfortable with Painter. Feels a little overworked, but it was fun.

The Letter R

2005-10-28T23:15:00.000-07:00

The Letter G

2005-10-28T20:14:00.000-07:00

I've been monkeying around with this guys colors for days now. If any of you photoshoppers can tell me why I'm losing so much color and saturation when I convert to jpeg, PLEASE leave a comment. There didn't seem to be a problem on the A or the N, but this one looks really dull compared to the original file. AARRGH!

KC's Academy

2005-10-26T18:45:00.000-07:00

This is a design I did a couple of months ago for my mother-in-law's new daycare service.

Worm in a Helicopter doesn't start with N

2005-10-23T21:12:00.000-07:00

Couple of things to explain on this one. First of all, it's a nightcrawler, not a worm. Newt ("that looks like a lizard!"), Nightingale ("why did you draw a bird?"), or Narwhale ("what the hell is that thing?") As you can see, the choices were slim. I went with Nightcrawler. Also I'm painting the ones with blue backgrounds first, in case you're wondering why they aren't in order. If anyone knows a better animal and mode of transportation starting with "N", you're too late, but let me know anyway. And don't worry, this one was the biggest stretch of all of them. I never would've thought "N" would be the difficult letter, but oh well.

Santy the Red-Nosed Elf-Snowdeer

2005-10-22T23:09:00.000-07:00

Started thinking about Christmas card ideas for this year, and my wife insisted I post this doodle. So here ya go.

the letter A

2005-10-20T21:42:00.000-07:00

This is the first in a series I've been working on. I've finished all 26 drawings, but the painting is going to take some time.

...two more

2005-10-20T21:41:00.000-07:00

Freelance Cartoon Job

2005-10-20T21:39:00.000-07:00

A couple months ago I did these cartoons as a freelance illustration job for a landscape architecture/urban planning company. I had no control over the writing obviously, but it was fun to try to make them funny to look at. (The cartoons were for their employees so don't expect to get all the jokes)

my first post

2005-10-20T18:23:00.000-07:00

my butt is now in gear.