A night with Dr. Sketchy

This past Monday I attended my first ever Dr. Sketchy Anti Art School event. A Dr. Sketchy event is described as "life drawing with a twist. Drinking, Drawing, Dames and Games!" It was held at the Gypsy Cafe, a fantastic little Mediterranean place here in Pittsburgh owned by my friends Jim and Mel. It was enormous fun, I even won a couple of prizes for my sketches: a bottle of wine and a rather unique balloon animal creation.

I've posted the sketches here. Each one drawn between 2 and 10 minutes. The theme for the night was "Hobo Erotic." You can see some photos from the night at Amber Love's Facebook page. Did I mention I had a great time? Well, I did! I can't wait to do it again next month.










Here's one of the sketches that won me a prize. A hobo clown created a balloon animal before our very eyes and we had to sketch what we thought it might be:

My sketch was the night's winner for that particular round, so I won the balloon animal. I'll let you guess what it is:

More showing off

Check it out, another example of how a recipient of the Monster Mini Sketches, and a ton of them at that, choose to display them in his home. So cool! Glad you dig them enough to show them off, Ryan!

Monster Mini Sketches - The Final Batch

Here's the last of the Monster Mini Sketches. Plus, Green Arrow, the award for the winner of the second week of The Guns of Shadow Valley Comments Contest.

It was a lot of fun doing all these sketches and I really appreciate all of you who bought a mini sketch of your own. I may do this again sometime(though probably not at these prices!) And keep your eyes open for the Monster Minis Sketchbook, coming in 2010.

Cool stuff! (including Neil Gaiman)

Here's some cool stuff I thought I'd post. First up, pics of how a couple of monster mini sketch buyers have chosen to display their purchases. This just gives me a good feeling, that they would put so much effort into displaying my work. Like I'm a real gosh fer darn artiste. They must actually like their sketches!




Second up: My buddies Chad and Heather Seewald, and Adam and Tracy Besenyodi went to a lecture given by Neil Gaiman in Cleveland a few months back. Chad had gotten a convention commission from me previously of the character Destiny from Gaiman's famed Sandman series. When they met Neil, Chad had him sign the sketch and Adam snapped this pic. I think that's pretty cool!

Monster Mini Sketches - batch 10

Another long awaited batch of Monster Mini Sketches! Actually, the Punisher sketch is the first week's award prize in the Guns of Shadow Valley Comments Contest, but whatever. There's just a few more of these monster sketches left to post.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just a quick shout out to all my loyal followers: may you all have a warm and wonderful holiday, and may we all remember to be thankful for what we have and strive to make things better for those in our lives whom we hold dear. In short: Happy Turkey Day!!

P.S. There's a new page up today over at The Guns of Shadow Valley site: Check it out here!

And don't forget the Guns Comments Contest, where you can enter to win free art by me! All you have to do is leave a comment on one of this week's pages. Details here.

Monster Mini Sketches - batch 9

That's right, I still haven't posted them all. It's another batch of Mini Monsters! They just...won't...die!

The Joker

The Joker, as portrayed in Batman R.I.P.

Guns of Shadow Valley - Comments Contest!

The Guns of Shadow Valley weekly comments contest starts this week! To enter the contest, all you need to do is leave a comment on the Guns website for one of this week's new pages. Once your comment is approved, you are entered into the contest to win a free original mini sketch, made custom just for you, of any one character you choose.

These mini sketches will be like the ones done recently for the Monster Mini Sketch Sale last month: they are 4x6, ink and ink wash. If you win that week, you will be notified and asked what character you would like drawn for your very own mini sketch. The sketch will be lovingly created by series artist Dave Wachter(me!) and hand delivered to your address by a uniformed member of the United States Postal Service. There will be one winner per week. One word posts, spam, or comments lacking any insight or effort will not be considered. Only approved comments will enter you in the contest, so make them thoughtful/entertaining/funny, and of course, make the comments relative to that comic page or the story as a whole. We can't wait to hear from you!

Medusa and Black Bolt

Here's a commission that's been some time coming: Medusa and Black Bolt, looking regal, as requested. So much hair, how does she wash it all? Does she use a separate conditioner? Does she repeat?

Monster Mini Sketches - batch 8

Monster Mini Sketches - batch 7

Another long awaited batch of monster sketches. They've been done for a while but I've been delayed in posting due to the aforementioned move. Enjoy!