RECENT DOODLES AND SKETCHES 7-10

I haven't been working on any big art projects lately but I'm usually doodling one thing or another so I thought I'd share some of the little stuff.

I was messing around with a lot of 80s characters and drawing up these little sketches to put in an 80sville type of small town that I had drawn up. I figured I'd just draw the town first and just plant them in later with photoshop but I ended up finding out a little too late that I added too much detail and the characters didn't look good shrunk-down and squeezed into the streets and windows.

The drawings are still pretty fun though by themselves.



Starting from top left and working our way down we have Monchichi the thumb/banana sucking fuzzy monkey. I was thinking it might be funny to have him sticking his thumb in another monchichi's butt. (childish but funny).
There is vomiting Odie or "Grodie". The gag is supposed to be a long gush of puke instead of the tongue.
A "Poochie" dog ripping apart a Cabbage Patch Kid.
Q-Bert and PacMan, a couple Smurfs and Strawberry Deathcake? A goth version that smells like clove cigarettes?





Care Bears bearing 80s logos I planned on scattering around town (too small to see the logos on their bellies).



Alphie II the reading robot helping kids learn to spell "FART" and other various 4-letter words.
More Strawberry Deathcake ideas with little pets and names like "Moonberry Gloom" smelling like formaldehyde.
Charlie Brown who was supposed to be exiting a building shaped like the Snoopy Sno-cone maker from the early 80s.
Garfield, Gloworms, Q-Bert, and Fisher Price Little People (rabid dog that bit little boy).



HeMan VS the Shirttales



A few Tomy robot sketches



Snoopy sitting on his shithouse



Cabbage Patch Kids "Koosas" the animal versions that were supposed to be pets.



Rainbow Not-So Brite picking on star sprites.

Here's another random drawing I did on the back of an old book.



And a couple of recent Garbage Pail Kids drawings (Shown with the original cards).













That's all for now.

SPRING GARAGE SALE HUNTING 2010

So far, spring garage sale hunting can be summed up in three words: CHILLY, WINDY, RAINY.
I haven't had much luck finding treasures so far but I thought I'd share the few things I found.

I found this Care Bears suitcase at a neighborhood garage sale. The lady gave it to me for free. I always wonder why people do that. The point of a garage sale is to make money right? Anyway, I figured this would be great to put all my Care Bears in when I'm going to grandma's house. Right now I have them up on shelves in my studio with Wuzzles and Godzilla.









I also found this clown doll for a dollar which I thought was a Cooky the cook doll from the Bozo Show, but after I took a better look at it I figured out it was just a dumb clown.




Bozo and Cooky

I found this Noah's Ark Playset for 75 cents and pretty much bought it for the plastic animals.









I have hundreds of plastic animals in a bin in my basement but in this set I found one I'd never seen before. A baby kangaroo that fits inside a pouch on the mom kangaroo's belly? I guess I'm easily amused.





Yesterday I stopped by an old man's garage sale in the rain and was excited to find some smelly markers and a couple diener erasers in a huge box of pens and pencils. I already had two of the fire engine erasers red/yellow but I didn't have the frog. Once again the old man sitting on his porch in the rain said I could have them for free but I made him take my 75 cents.



I'm hoping the garage sales will pick up this spring and I'll have more exciting finds to share next time.

PVC MADNESS PT. 2

More PVC figures from the toy shelves in my studio.


CARE BEARS AND CARE BEAR COUSINS


GNOME FAMILY

These are also known as "Empire Elves" and are rather rare. These four are from 1978. They are a total Smurfs rip-off.




KOOL-AID MAN FIGURES


POUND PUPPIES


SHIRT TALES



STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

The coolest thing about these is that they still smell after 20+ years.
More to come!!