Well, it’s a new year. Yup, another stupid useless 365 days is before us. Did you make any resolutions?  I sure as hell did. So far I haven’t been able to make the “not drinking myself outta house and home”stick, but I am ahead of the  bell curve on the “Draw more pictures of Red Skull in Nazi garb.” Face front, true believers-

I kinda liked the last one!

Just like storytelling, lovemaking or driving, I get better at drawing with every drink.

According to google analytics, my sketchbook pages get the most views over all my other crap (?!?)

Looks like I did a little more Drinking than drawing at the last “Drink And Draw.”

Oh well, there’s always next month.

Chinita is a few sheets to the wind.

“The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.”

(In order of least to the most cool: Josh Latta, Brad McGinty and Shane Morton.)

Sorry, I always get a little poetic the morning after Atlanta’s ONLY
FREE Drink N’ Draw.

Brad and I sharped our pencils and hitched our horses at the
Mellow Mushroom in Decatur last night for the  legendary event
all the artists are talking about, that is to say, if by “all the artist”, you mean
Brad n’ Josh.

Just kidding.

After drinking my dinner, the fabulous Chinita from the famed
Blast-Off Burlesque took to the stage, by which I mean, bar, and reminded
us what sexy looks like as the poses poured out of
her like sugar into my gas tank.

Wanna see the results?

(click on the sexy sketches to see them LIFE SIZED!)

Special thanks for Buddy and Dave from Mellow Mushroom for making this event possible.

Two posts in one day? Yowsa! I’m on fire!

Last night my main man Brad and I went to Atlanta’s first free Drink & Draw at the Mellow Mushroom in Decatur. No, the drinking part wasn’t free, but the drawing part sure was.

The model, Sadie Hawkins from the famed Blast Off Burlesque, was terrific. Usually at these things, the models like to keeps their limbs close to their bodies  which makes for a dull composition. Sadie understood that tension in body and contrast in limbs make for a good pose and all o’that.

Apparently there was trivia with prizes too, but I couldn’t really understand much of anything that was being said. Ah well.

One little complaint though, the lighting wasn’t very good in the Mellow Mushroom so a lotta the black in Sadie’s clothes kinda melded together and I couldn’t really see well enough to- Blah blah blee, excuses excuses etc.

I always approach figure drawing with a tiny bit of dread. I mean, I like looking at hot babes being all hot n’stuff, but man, drawing them is humbling.

Great times were had, though, I assure you of that!

So, here they are. Click on my humble drawings.

Kudos to Buddy and Dave from Mellow Mushroom for making drinking and drawing scantily clad women possible in a pizza place without being arrested!