Red Pencil Diaries

(May 05, 2010)

Quick entry this week… I drew a sketch of the following while re-watching this week’s DOCTOR WHO, and thought I’d do a cleaned up version:

I’ve been occasionally sketching with a spare red pencil for the last week or so. I like the look of it… perhaps I’ll make it a thing: Red pencil for sketching, Green or Non-photo Blue for laying out finished work… I’ll see how it goes.

Here’s another quick sketch, this time of Casey Jones of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE fame:

As well as being the anniversary of Mexico’s unlikely victory at the Battle of Puebla, today also happens to be National Cartoonist’s Day.  CUL DE SAC author Richard Thompson gives a few tips at his blog on how you can observe this most obscure of holidays.