Five months since my last post? Inconceivable!

(Maybe that's why - I don't want to be another hack blogger with non-stop pop culture references.)

Moving on ... I thought I would highlight my love of the ballpoint pen for anything from doodles to halfway-decent sketches. The ballpoint pen is a very forgiving instrument when used carefully. Of course, I don't doodle much. Why jot off a simple doodle when you can waste hours trying to bend the laws of perspective (see right) and work on your hatching? Ah, yes, hatching. The blessing and curse of all hack artists. Today's drawing is actually Tuesday's drawing and yes, I did it at work. Okay, mostly on my lunch hour but whatever. I'm going to go ahead and blame my scanner for any faults in the textures. Technical note: this scanned much better in grayscale than in color, which saves a lot of memory. The paper also turns pale yellow/ochre in a color scan. That's probably a consequence of owning a $99 scanner (also a printer/copier but it gave up the printing ghost years ago - thanks for the cheap, expendable crap, Lexmark!).

Feel free to point out the deficiencies of today's drawing - I'm not that proud of it and I can name several myself. Oh, wait - I forgot that no one reads this.

Note to non-existent readers: in an effort to nurture this blog and maybe up the readership into the realm of non-imaginary numbers, I think the current direction will be to start posting things I like. There may not be anything more cohesive to this theme, just things that appeal to me. Like pomegranates. Pomegranates freakin' rock.