I've Been Using My Phone as a Sketchpad
As an undergrad, I took the helm of a friend’s cartoon for about two weeks. It was one of the highlights of my highlights of my life. I love to draw, though I can’t say my work is very polished. But Jorge Colombo’s amazing work with the Brushes app for the iPhone inspired me to start sketching on the Metro, while walking around my neighborhood, and while waiting on long lines. Below you’ll find some of my mini-cartoons.
This guy is frightened and disturbed by something.
She’s loosely based on a black-and-white photo of my mother that I conjured up from memory.
This is a rough-hewn guy with a comb-over.
This is my crude rendering of a Smog concert.
This is a youngish guy with a wispy beard.
This is a handsome, but tired, Asian American couple.
This is a tree that grows “people fruit.”
Wow…those are lovely.
Is there nothing that you cannot do?
— matoko_chan · Jun 17, 02:02 AM · #
Not bloody bad.
— E.D. Kain · Jun 17, 02:19 PM · #
The Smog Concert is strangely affecting. Very nice.
— Sargent · Jun 17, 02:49 PM · #
Very good. The last one is creepy though…the first thing that popped into my mind was “Strange Fruit”, that’s just not right.
— Gary · Jun 17, 03:36 PM · #
re: the people fruit, the first thing I thought of was this tree, in season.
— Sargent · Jun 17, 03:56 PM · #
Yeah, the Smog concert one is really clever. I keep staring at it. I’d pay cash money for that!
— Haarball · Jun 17, 04:31 PM · #
Anyone who can make such charming little sketches on an iPhone surely has what it takes to wear a sarong!
— Tony Comstock · Jun 17, 07:31 PM · #
You guys have seriously made my day.
— Reihan · Jun 17, 09:37 PM · #
Wow, these are quite good. I especially like the rendering of a Smog concert.
— Conor Friedersdorf · Jun 18, 12:43 AM · #
I think these are lovely Reihan. Making a little piece of art everyday is good for the soul. I sometimes wish that bloggers at TAS would illustrate their posts with an image more often if for nothing else but to help me find posts more easily.
You might enjoy the book by Betty Edwards – Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain.
— ell · Jun 18, 02:39 PM · #
An absent-minded person was standing in the middle of a busy intersection where a policeman was directing traffic, and he kept bugging the policeman because he was confused.
“Excuse me, Officer! Can you tell me how to get to the hospital?”
The officer was very busy and said, “Just stand here and you’ll get there!”
— air jordans · Jun 19, 03:36 AM · #
These are nice! My husband is an artist and some of his friends like that book (Drawing on the Rt. Side/Brain).
— Joules · Jun 19, 03:55 AM · #
I believe that last one is a nut tree, not a fruit tree…
— wk · Jun 28, 07:43 AM · #