100 Themes: Seeking Wisdom

If you had told me twenty-years ago that I would rarely play video games when I grew up, I'd have called you a liar. The thing is, games have changed over the years. There's still a couple a year that I pick up and enjoy playing, but rarely with the rabid fervor that I did when I was a kid. I'm just not that into driving and shooting games.

The last 4 game systems that I actually bought though, were for "The Legend of Zelda". The classic tale of the young man, facing impossible odds to save the princess and the world? Who couldn't love that? I don't remember what the wise woman that lived beyond the lost woods had to say to young Link anymore, but I do remember being frustrated with learning the pattern to get through them.

Next up is "Break Away". Until then, take care and be good!
Your friend,
Jeffrey

100 Themes: Dark

There are definitely mornings when I'm sleepier than I would like to be. Ha-ha-ha!

Next up is "Seeking Wisdom". Until then, take care and be good!

Your friend,
Jeffrey

100 Themes: Light

Trying something new with the eyes today... didn't quite hit it like I wanted, as they look a little like "crazy eyes" but maybe it's going in the direction I want. Also, moving forward with the hand lettering. It's better than yesterday, but I think I've still got a ways to go, ha-ha-ha!

Next up is "Dark". Until then, take care and be good!
Your friend,
Jeffrey

100 Themes: Love

Wow! Two in two days... I am on fire! I'm glad that love is one of the early themes, so that we can just get it out of the way. It's one of those that's both easy and hard... It's easy to make a drawing about love, but hard to make one that's not the same ol', same ol'. I spent a lot of the day thinking about what love is to me, and came up with a lot of ideas, but this is the one that stayed with me. The sheer joy on that girls face when I go to get her out of bed is simply heartwarming.

As a side note, I'm attempting to hand letter these, but so far my lettering is terrible. So I typed this one in photoshop.

The next theme is "light". Until then, take care and be good!
Your friend,
Jeffrey

100 Themes: Introduction

I've seen this meme floating around the interweb a bit lately, and it really caught my fancy. I know I've tried to do stuff like this before, with little success. 100 of anything just seems like such a commitment. I'm not setting a time line for this or a deadline, though. Maybe falling behind on the schedule in the past is what made me give up hope. We're just going to enjoy this, and see where it goes!

The first theme is "Introduction".

Until next time, take care and be good!
Your friend,
Jeffrey

Daily Life 025: Ice Skating

The other day, we watched the movie "Ice Princess" starring Joan Cusack and Michelle Trachtenberg. The movie is about a physics student who begins a project based on ice skating for a scholarship competition, and as she learns more about skating by applying what she learns, finds that she really loves skating.
About half-way through the movie as I'm making dinner in the kitchen, I check on the girls and Abby is spinning in the living room. She say's "Look daddy! I'm ice 'kating!" Ha-ha-ha! So I help her with some more spins, and then we pretend to do some other of the other tricks (is that the right word?) from the skating portions of the movie. Now, any time she's posing with one food behind her, she tells me to "look at her ice 'kating moves."

Awkward Super Heroes! Yay!

It's pretty super-hectic here, lately. Between work on my 'zine (which is due at the beginning of next month), work on lapel pins, work on covers for my friends at hex, and finally transitioning Abby into her 3's and Olive into her first year... like I said, hectic. Ha-ha-ha!

Still, I am getting stuff done, and there's developing a backlog of stuff to show you all. These guys are mostly just quick and dirty little drawings I did the other night, and then slapped some color on this afternoon. I kind of wanted them to look like awkward kids dressed up as super-heroes.
Abby is obsessed with Captain America, and we don't know why. She got a toy of him in a happy meal, last fall and just couldn't stop talking about him. Who knows why some things strike kids fancy.
I think pigeon-toed Wolverine is very funny.

Until next time, take care and be good!
Your friend,
Jeffrey