30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 30

DAY 30 - A CONGRATS BANNER FOR FINISHING THE CHALLENGE

If you're a fan of Arrested Development, you'll get the joke here. If not...well...this probably seems anti-climactic.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 29

DAY 29 - A PLACE YOU WANT TO GO

One of these days...

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 28

DAY 28 - ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE

Anything I'd like? Wow...that's pretty broad. Well, I'd like to steal Gabe and Jenni Patillo's dog and give it to Sarah. How's that? 

Don't worry, Patillos, I won't.

But I'd like to.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 27

DAY 27 - SOMEONE YOU LOVE

I'm sure Jesus didn't look anything like this, but at least here he's smiling and seems somewhat approachable. I don't think we hear about that Jesus enough.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 26

DAY 26 - SOMETHING YOU DON'T LIKE

Come onnnnn, just let me watch it.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 25

DAY 25 - SCENERY

I didn't have anything in mind when I started this doodle, I just...started doodling. I'm going to say this is somewhere in Arizona. The only time I've been to Arizona, I was driving through it on my way to California and it was nighttime, so I don't know how close I am to the real thing. But this is what Arizona looks like in the daytime in my head. That's fair.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 24

DAY 24 - A COUPLE

When Sarah and I first got to know Tyler and Monica, we were attending the same church. We invited them to our weekly "TV Tuesday" when, at the time, a group of us got together to watch "LOST." We began from the very first season so those who hadn't already started in wouldn't be left behind and soon, after watching one DVD a night (usually 3 or 4 episodes) we were all caught up.

After a few weeks Sarah and I noticed that Tyler and Monica were sitting together and one night in particular I spotted them holding hands. That's been a few years now and it's hard to remember them not together. They're an amazing pair of people and Sarah and I love being with them. They're fun (and funny), they love to laugh, they have great senses of humor, and it is sometimes infuriating that I cannot beat either one of them at Mario Kart.

Ty and Monica are getting married in July and just thinking of two people as awesome as they are being together forever... It's nice.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 23

DAY 23 - SOMETHING YOU NEED

The lovely coffee bean.

Plain and simple, people, I need coffee. You don't understand. I need coffee. I would write more, but just thinking about it... yeah... I'm gonna need to go brew another pot.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 22

DAY 22 - SOMETHING YOU MISS

Earlier this year Sarah and I visited Nashville. We stayed with our  friends Gabe and Jenni (check out her blog here) and their precious daughter Amara. They were amazing hosts. Sarah had never been to the Music City area before and the Patillos knew the best places to take her to eat (Sarah's primary love language is food so of course she had the time of her life). Ever since we've returned to Pennsylvania, we've mentioned on more than a few occasions how much we miss not just that area of the country, but those really dear friends of ours, the Patillos.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 21

DAY 21 - SOMETHING YOU WANT

I'm pretty content with life and there aren't a lot of things I want. But getting a letter like this in the mail sure would be nice.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 20

DAY 20 - SOMETHING ORANGE

Sure, the obvious choice would be to doodle an orange, but the first thing I thought of was one of the very first CDs I bought. It was 1992 and I had just moved to California. I bought my very first CD player (granted, even then I was a little late on keeping up with technology) and I had joined the Columbia House record club. One of the CDs I ordered in my 12-for-a-penny bundle was Very, a release by the Pet Shop Boys that came in an orange plastic jewel case that had raised circles on the front. Pretty cool, and great music to listen to while playing Sonic on your Sega Genesis.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 19

DAY 19 - SOMETHING NEW

If you haven't heard of Pete Holmes, now you have no excuse. I first learned of him back in early 2012 when I wrote a review of his album for my Comedy Reviews blog. Pete is back with a brand new album ("Nice Try, The Devil") and I love it. As a result, I had to doodle my own rendition of the cover art, complete with a beard made of candy sprinkles.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 18

DAY 18 - JUST A DOODLE

The Sketch Club app makes it fun to doodle, I gotta admit. As I go further along in this 30-day challenge, I'm learning to love this app more and more.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 17

DAY 17 - FAVORITE PLANT

I don't really have a favorite plant, but as far as taking care of one and keeping it alive, it doesn't get much easier than a cactus. Forgot to water it for 4 months? No problem.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 16

DAY 16 - INSPIRATION

There's nothing quite like the feeling of making people laugh.

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 15

DAY 15 - FAMILY PICTURE

I'm sure the cat would not approve of how I doodled her.

 

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 14

DAY 14 - FAVORITE FAIRY TALE

It was tricky trying to think of my favorite fairy tale, mostly because shows like Once Upon A Time have taken them all and squeezed all the life out of them. Still, I recall as a child having a picture book of Rumpelstiltskin that fascinated me. What's not to love about a tricky trickster who could turn straw into gold? Also, I recall being intrigued by the artwork. I don't know who the artist was, but as I recall it was very much in the style of Edward Gorey.

*NOTE. On a whim, I Googled "edward gorey rumpelstiltskin" and, as it turns out, it was him! I found images from the very book I was thinking of and it really brought me back. Another testament to how good art can stick with you throughout the years.

 

30 Day Drawing Challenge – Day 13

DAY 13 - COMIC

Wait. By "comic" do they mean comic strip? Cartoon? Stand-up comedian? And if they mean a stand-up comic, how do I possibly choose one? So I went with my favorite comic strip. It was a much easier decision.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 12

DAY 12 - MOST RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENT

I know it's not saving a baby from a burning trailer home or passing legislation that makes it OK for you to demand cotton candy from policemen on sight but I have to be honest: I felt good when I beat Far Cry 3.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 11

DAY 11 - TURNING POINT IN YOUR LIFE

This one was easy. It was the day I walked into BrewDaily's Cafe.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 10

DAY 10 - FAVORITE CANDY

Good & Plenty. Yes, please.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 9

DAY 9 - FAVORITE TV SHOW

This was a tough one to decide on. At first.

I'm such a big fan of TV and there have been so many great shows I've called my favorite. The Muppet Show was an early one. Then Moonlighting. Seinfeld. Friends. Arrested Development. Lost. Community (first 3 seasons only)...

But then I realized the show I've watched and loved the entire time the thrill of all the others I mentioned came (and went) was SNL. When that light went on, I knew there could be no other choice.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 8

DAY 8 - FAVORITE ANIMATED CHARACTER

Karl Pilkington in the animated HBO series, The Ricky Gervais Show. If you've ever seen it or the Idiot Abroad series or heard Ricky's podcasts or radio show, you'll understand.

This doodle was especially fun to draw and create and I love the Layers feature of the Sketch Club app (nothing new to those of you who use Photoshop, but I never have so this is a first-time for me. Lay off).

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 7

DAY 7 - FAVORITE WORD

If you thought my favorite word was going to be anything but this, you don't know me that well.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 6

DAY 6 - FAVORITE BOOK CHARACTER (CAN'T BE A MOVIE)

This one was a bit tougher because the "can't be a movie" stipulation pretty much ruled out all of my favorite books (and my initial choice, Sherlock Holmes). So, I went with the title character in the Edgar Allen Poe poem, "Annabel Lee." It's beautiful and haunting and I still love it as much as I did the first time I stumbled upon it in my high school library.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 5

DAY 5 - BEST FRIEND

Well, who else would it be? I'm still getting used to working with the Sketch Club app so I went with a doodle of Sarah that sort of obscures her face a bit to help me cheat and bend my lack of skill at doodling on an iPad in my favor.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 4

DAY 4 - FAVORITE PLACE

This one was tough, but it didn't take me long to settle on Ireland. After some serious debate on which of the Collins family pubs in Adare to go with, I decided to split the difference and go with the Cliffs of Moher, a truly breathtaking site to behold.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 3

DAY 3 - FAVORITE FOOD

I didn't even hesitate on this one. Without a doubt, my favorite food is your basic meal at In-N-Out. End of story.

30 Day Drawing Challenge - Day 2

DAY 2 - FAVORITE ANIMAL

30 Day Drawing Challenge

I stole this idea from Jorge Garcia's blog.

I also stole from Jorge the idea of doing all of my drawings with the Sketch Club app. I've never used this app before, so bear with me. Feel free to take the challenge yourself. It should be fun!

So, here it is, Day 1: Yourself