the humanespresso sketchblog!

I’m Only Happy When It Rains

humanespresso — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:23:47 +0000

Just fooling around. For once in my life I actually like the inks, so I might be onto something here.

More One-Shots

humanespresso — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:34:07 +0000

Yes, tons of these have been unleashed on the unsuspecting public, mwahaha.

Networking

Excel

Resume Building

Education

Job Skills

Dress to Impress

Unfettered

humanespresso — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:20:48 +0000

An old friend of mine (actually, the one who dubbed me “the human espresso”) has these things at her house where everyone shows up with art supplies and we all just sit around chatting and creating. I don’t get to go often, but yesterday I made a point to go because I’m feeling hemmed-in by all the art I have to do right now; my muse needed to go run around the yard a few times before I chained her to the desk again.

And this (linked because boobies) is what I doodled. No, I have no idea why she’s wearing fur on her butt. She needs more ornamentation, and since I let myself draw on watercolor paper I feel obligated to actually paint the piece at some point. But I’m posting now just in case I completely ruin it later.

Stand-Up Comic

humanespresso — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:47:40 +0000

These suckers just keep coming.

Photoshop Class

Job Skills

More One-Shots

humanespresso — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:54:58 +0000

QRs

Interviewing

Healthcare

The Funny Pages

humanespresso — Wed, 25 May 2011 03:44:09 +0000

Yeah, I sorta dropped off the face of the earth for a while there. My bad.

Recently I got a freelance gig with the local college doing one-shot comics to promote their continuing education programs. They give me a scenario and a punchline; I make the drawing as funny as I can. It’s probably the coolest job I’ve ever had!

Here are the ones I’ve done so far:

Wordpress

Project Management

Windows

Bookkeeper Professional

Silly Holiday = Silly Art

humanespresso — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:47:37 +0000

Valentine’s Day is becoming a kind of poisonous day for adults. Kids, though, have the right idea: silly cards and candy for all your friends and family! A bunch of people were posting hilarious geeky versions of kiddie cards online today, and I was dying with laughter. So I decided to draw some of my for my family! (Mom really likes the holiday, and it just isn’t right to disappoint your mother.)

Yes, my dad and brother are big “Ravin Rabbids” fans.

New Toy = LOVE!

humanespresso — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:46:56 +0000

I’ve been resisting Manga Studio for years. I mean, I already have Photoshop, why would I need another program? They work the same, right?

Boy, was I wrong. Manga Studio is THE SHIT.

Guest Stripping…is not what you think it is.

humanespresso — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:57:28 +0000

I’ve been a big fan of Angels 2200 since…well, I made them a piece of fanart in 2003, so at least that long! (Yet somehow I always forget to put their URL on my links page…wah.) So, much to my delight, every once in a while the artist, Peter Haynes, asks me to do a guest page. (And no two of them are drawn in exactly the same style, bwahaha.)

Anyway, here’s the page with dialogue added by Pete! Read. Enjoy. And then go read the rest.

Why I Haven’t Run Screaming (Yet)

humanespresso — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:03:30 +0000

My day job, like all day jobs, has its share of drudgery and hair-pulling frustration. (Oh, does it ever.) But every once in a while I get to do something really freaking cool, and that makes it all worth it!

For instance, the other day our department head asked all the centers to create baskets for another facility to raffle off as a fundraiser. My coworkers and I were at a loss because we don’t have a lot of spiffy semi-valuable items hanging around the classrooms; if we have it, it gets used, baby. Really all we had to offer was a gift certificate and a small number of art supplies. And a gift certificate tied to a pack of markers doesn’t exactly look flashy and attractive on the raffle table.

Our solution? Make an awesome re-usable gift box to put everything in.

Our evil solution? Make the gift box look like the Mad Hatter’s hat and call it “A Rainy Day in Wonderland”.

Needless to say, I had WAY too much fun building this thing!

A kooky hat suits a kooky guy

"Surprise! We're all mad here."