I got an accordion!

Chalk up to insanity, but it's been on my mind for a while to get an accordion. We sold some stuff recently and had some money to be stupid with, so I started shopping around. I found a bunch of low-end brands online, but really had no idea what I was shopping for. And …

Sketchies

I went and bought a box of those Pitt brush pens; giving them a second chance. I love the lines, I find them easy to use, but the tips don't last for nuthin. Granted, there's a trick to flipping the nib to double their life. Works awesome, by the way. However, I think …

Edwardian Robot

I learned what spats were the other day, and, well, I just hadta draw a robot with spats!

Brushed Charlie Chaplin

Manly Bunny Fan Art!

Here's some fan art drawn of today's comic over at Commissioned Comics (http://commissionedcomic.com)

Drunken Banjo

Woke up this morning and saw I'd recorded a dozen tracks of drunken banjo on my 'puter. Here's 3 that I kinda liked. It was a nice night last night; enjoyed another campfire, watchin' the stars, and roasting anything that could be shoved onto a stick.

Saturday's for Banjo!

Once again, another mp3 of banjo practice. Tryin' out new techniques I learned this week, some lead improvisation and glass slide.

http://fabricari.com/music/banjo-practice-20070929.mp3

Newspaper Reader

Wow, at the rate I'm taking to finish the next The Mystic page, I'll take two weeks per page! I don't know what it is about this one - I just feel compelled to get it right. No jinxies, though; I'm not drawing it a third time!

Shadey Hats, Cop

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I think I got a bit carried away for a "warm-up" sketch. I drew this with photo reference, but changed the direction of the lighting as an experiment, or something.

Art Deco Girl

I found this nifty book at Half Priced Book Store full of 20s and 30s fashion. This one's a bit of an amalgam of different designs I liked. Funny, these are the fashions that "gramma" wore, that we used to think of as "old-lady clothes," but thrown back into the context …

Weekends are for Banjo

I spent an unhealthy amount of time watching the youtubes tryin' to learn some of the technique of a lot of the pros who post their frailing godliness. I saw a lot of them played a very precise melody over their frailing. It's a bitch to do, because you've gotta hammer …

Shadey Hat Guy

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Phoney Bone & Another Weekend

(Sketch cross posted on thebabygrind)

I'm about half-way through reading Jeff Smith's Bone. What an awesome, massive endeavor. I've really been paying close attention to the inking and balance of black/white. I've also been devouring Jamie Hernadez' Love and Rockets. …

1930s Suit

I cross posted this over at thebabygrind , a community of artists who's goal is to post something, anything creative, five days a week. I was pouring through Jamie Hernadez' Locas and the obtuse feathering appeals to me - I want to try more of that.

Hats!

Preview & Pirates

See? I'm making progress. A little bit, anyway.

And to celebrate International Talk like a Pirate Day I'm reposting a link to that sea shanty I recorded a while back: http://www.fabricari.com/music/my-son-john.mp3

Monopoly Guy

We picked the Spongebob Monopoly game this weekend and played it a couple time; or as Jeremy calls it Nomopoly. Jeremy won because Meili and I were over-zealous and over extended ourselves; borrowed against our properties to get pineapples (apartments). By the time we …

Practicing Frailing - Video

I tried out that you-tube recording dealy; the video sucks, but the sound quality's not bad. I tried something new this morning with the frailing - I tuned the drone string up to "A" and played in an "A minor" scale. I think it has an interesting sound.

Oh, and had to …

Drawing Block

I posted this page from my sketchbook, as evidence of what I hate to admit, to label, "drawing block." It's been a really, really, long time since I've felt this unmotivated to draw. I had the luxury of inertia to keep me from think about the "why" when I was working on …

Orion on the Wrong Side

I just picked my guitar up from a local luthier who tuned up and repaired my guitar for the first time since I was 17! And it was cheap! Only 30 bucks and it's like new.

So, I decided to break it in with a cover of Neal's song, "Orion on the Wrong Side." He (nvonflue) …