DJ Ladel is “ladling out the hits!”
This is a dumb little sketch based on a dumb response I gave during a comedy game show I participated in last night.
My apologies for the lack of posts. I haven’t fallen off the earth, but I’ve gotten really into learning Spanish recently. I also have a short attention span and I’ve been out of town for the past two weekends.
I pinky swear there will be some good stuff popping up here next week.
I’ve realized that posting every weekday is not something that is ever going to happen. I just can’t manage my time that well. But here’s the fourth post for this week, which is pretty rad.
This Friday Afternoon Comic is half Abe Lincoln, half Valentine’s Day-lovin’. The idea for this popped into my head a few days ago, so I’m glad I had the time to draw it today.
Enjoy it lovebirds/Lincoln enthusiasts!
Today, an Abe Lincoln-themed comic for you!
This week is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
He is my favorite president ever, and sometimes I get bored and draw pictures of him.
I will attempt to post something Lincoln-related every day this week, because he was the man.
So I’ve been a major slacker on the art front this week – my apologies, loyal followers.
The Year of Gnomes project is going on a bit of a hiatus, so I have more time to make comics. However, there will definitely be gnomes in some of my comics. So don’t despair, gnome fans.
Without further ado:
Welcome to the first installment of something that will hopefully become a permanent fixture of my sketch blog: Friday Afternoon Comics!
I created the comics below as a response to some personal reflection questions in my AmeriCorps mid-year report. For those of you unaware of AmeriCorps, it’s like the Peace Corps, but within the United States. There are AmeriCorps programs all over the place focusing on different themes and missions, this year I am working in a program called Oregon Campus Compact at Portland State University. Our focus is on student retention through mentoring programs. I’ve gained a lot of great knowledge and experience serving so far.
You don’t really need to know any of that to read these, but they probably make a bit more sense if you do.
AmeriComic 1:
AmeriComic 2:
To continue on the Portland theme, here’s hipster Santa, bringing PBR to all the underemployed boys and girls living on the east side…
I will be leaving Portland for a short span of time to spend the holidays with my family, but I love this quirky little city so this week’s posts are Portland-related.
This image is something I made for my friend who has recently left Portland for somewhere in Colorado, so I wanted to send her off with a slice of Portlandia. I tried to think of the most “Portland-y” thing I could think of. According to my brain that was a hipster elk/deer thing riding a bicycle past Powell’s Bookstore while drinking a PBR.
This is how it turned out:
If this image captures even a fraction of Portland’s oddness, I consider it a success.
Materials used: pens, watercolor, colored pencil
I really hope Megan got this in the mail by now and I didn’t totally spoil the surprise by posting on here…
This was a project I completed earlier this year for my dear friend Kayla (who is sort of famous). The girl has got some pipes. But I digress.
Kayla’s close friend just had a baby, and Kayla wanted a special card made for the family. Specifically, she wanted a family of giraffes. When I finally got down to drawing it out (I procrastinate heavily without concrete deadlines), it didn’t take me very long. I drew out one rough sketch to show Kayla:
All I used for this card was some Micron pens I think. Some kind of pens. I don’t quite remember.
Erika Schnatz 