Inktober Illustrations E-book

Hello dear readers. As part of the whole Facebook experience and one of the other reasons this part of my digital empire has gotten a little out of date, I wanted to offer you a fun piece of my mind.

The whole month of October, I did a drawing a day ... some illustrations, some cartoons and all fun and creative. There was such a flow of comments and positive feedback I thought it would be fun to compile them in an e-book.


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Just so we're clear, there's a method to the madness. Inktober was a way to expand my daily norm to include hand drawn line art. Originally shared on Facebook, the collection took on a following and as more friends and family enjoyed it, I wanted a way to show and share it in a more organized manner.

So in the following pages, you'll see what I have done on a daily basis to keep the creative wheels greased. Thank you for the kind comments which can still be seen on the Facebook album 'Inktober' on my page. If you aren't online or in the list, Some are cartoons from my ever-evolving series "The Irony is Devastating".

Share with your friends, laugh, ponder and have fun like I did making these drawings. Printed book copies, art prints and originals will be available for sale very soon. Thanks and enjoy!

In the creative median with my blinker on

Hello dear readers...

I'm enjoying growing in my skills and learning new technologies and staying on the cusp of existing ones, all that being said... I miss painting and illustration.

I'm putting on a developer hat (more like a hardhat) and knocking out custom solutions and having a blast. I'm crafting solutions and value added solutions and positioning Kingdom Graphics as a multifaceted solution for the progressive businessperson.

Also I get the chance to create designs and corporate identity for our clients so that lets me stretch the ol cerebellum with artistic expression.

CurvyGirl got me oil paints for Christmas and a Japanese sumi-e painting and calligraphy brush set a few years ago. I'm going to dip some bristles very soon and hope to parlay that into a gallery presence.

Whatever your creative expression, painting, drawing, music, sewing, writing... share it and be proud of it because when you don't get a chance to put it out there it's easy to feel creatively constipated.

I am going to show my sweet blue-eyed muse the power she has over me.

To quote Staind, 'It's been a while'

Hello dear readers, with the advent of broader communication on LinkedIn and Facebook, plus a bevy of development projects on my drawing board, I've been pulled away from the Because Things Should Look Good blog.

Kingdom Graphics is about to roll out an exciting new self-promotion service that's going to serve as a value added service to out clients and strategic business partners. I'll share more as soon as the curtain is ready to open on that project. But also we have had the chance to help our long-standing clients develop new e-commerce catalogs, and some new avenues into the stone and tile care markets all over the north bay.

So in short, we're clickin along and appreciate the attention the Steelers Groundhog cartoon has given us as well.

Thanks and we'll talk to you again soon. *waving happily*

Groundhog Day and Steelers' Victory

I was inspired this morning and though I'd do up a nifty cartoon honoring the Pittsburgh Steelers' victory in Super Bowl XLIII (or 43 for you non-Romans out there). So Punxsutawney Phil poked out of his hollow, feelin' good from last night and made this declaration.

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I also tried to get this in to the Pittsburgh area newspapers but they stonewalled me so I thought I'd share it here!

Bears over Packers! Yeaaaah!

Watch the highlights. It wasn't pretty but a win is a win and we're hopeful for some momentum into the post season!

Merry Christmas dear readers and the Monsters of the Midway have given us an early present!

Hannity and Dr Pepper are free

You heard it readers, Dr Pepper has no period after the Dr ... watch 'Unwrapped' with Marc Summers on Food Network about that.

But Sean Hannity is free of Colmes.

I don't know of Hannity or Colmes individually but they were always a fixture on our channel lineup as CurvyGirl and I would flip through the channels.

The free Dr Pepper was attached to the buyers of the new Guns 'n Roses Chinese Democracy CD.

From what I heard, the folks at one of our most popular soft drink companies vowed to offer a free soda of some size or value to those who purchased the new the new Guns 'n Roses Chinese Democracy CD.

And basically the overwhelming demand for the new Guns 'n Roses Chinese Democracy CD crashed the servers at Dr Pepper.

They have a public relations nightmare on their hands if Dr Pepper doesn't make good on the pledge of a free soda for each purchased copy of the new Guns 'n Roses Chinese Democracy CD.

I heard there were millions of listens of the Guns 'n Roses Chinese Democracy CD at BestBuy and other electronics retailers. Let's see if Guns 'n Roses Chinese Democracy CD becomes a hot seller this Christmas season. I know for sure I'm not getting it for CurvyGirl or LadyBug.

I may send a copy to Sean Hannity though, just for the reason he and the Guns 'n Roses Chinese Democracy CD shared a news day.

$0.55 a gallon... Hey man, that's BOSS!

CurvyGirl and I went to gas up our Big Blue yesterday and we knew that there were a handful of Safeway gas rewards stored up, however we couldn't have guessed just how low it would go!

We filled up our Pathfinder for only $10.60!

When was the last time that gas was that cheap? I'll tell ya.. Back before CurvyGirl was even born! According to some research, 1974-1975 was the last time average gas prices were that low.

So we went back in time yesterday, and I'm not sure if the gas pump, the Pathfinder or the cash register at Safeway was our dimensional portal but things looked the same and Led Zeppelin played on someone's car radio. AM no doubt, with an 8-track deck.

Speaking of that, I have a sweet receiver at home that I need to get some speakers for so I can rock out to 8 tracks again. When I do, I promise to share my experiences in the land of large tapes with at least 3 clicky program song breaks.

Fitness, carbon footprints and leaf blowers

I'm looking out of my office window and watching a leaf blower 'literally' blow stuff around. I wonder just how many calories sweeping leaves burns ... versus the carbon footprint of an environmental services company investing in good brooms and fast workers. Also the consider the wasted labor to chase the leaves that are blown here and there.

If we utilized two workers for each leaf blower in America, how much better-off would the economy be, our global warming situation and the general productivity of the workforce be?

How many times have you been on the phone when someone with the gas-powered leaf blower walked by, and they said "hold on, the freakin leaf blower is going by, wait a sec"? It breaks the flow of a sales call.

How quiet would it be if two people with brooms were walking by your window? I think the effort and emissions of leaf blowers is wasteful. The employees would be better off, the landscaping company would safe lots of dough and the offices they serve would maintain their calls.

The employees may take 30 minutes or just a bit more to do their jobs but think of the impact! No need for a gym or cholesterol medicine, daily action means wellness.

I am going to work on the initiative to make landscaping companies responsible, quieter and more environmentally conscious.

What do you think?