Artwork

During this "down time" when I don't have much time to be creative here on the blog, due to juggling of my time between work, the twins, and alienating my family with the dvd I'm working on, I decided to post some of my amusing artwork for your enjoyment.

These are crude drawings I did with only my mouse and Paint program.

This is a sample of a comic strip I would draw when I was in Junior High and High School. For some strange reason, I found it funny to draw Sesame Street characters with murderous tendancies. And not simply killing people, but going so far as drawing muppets involved in dismemberment, cannibalism, bludgeoning, etc. The typical comic strip would go as follows: Grover & Bert would be minding their own business, only to have Mr. Hooper anger or annoy them in some form or fashion, and then the mayhem would ensue. This photo depicts Manny as our victim to Grover & Bert's maniacal tendencies. ( Manny's ears are red because I always drew him with sunburned ears - another story for another time) Later, my classmates caught on and strangely, they liked it too. Next thing you know, I'm drawing flip-book style action sequences of Grover punching off the head of someone into Bert's mouth, who eats it and then vomits it back into Grover's mouth. And I'm talking, girls would ask me to draw this. No, I'm not kidding. The more violent I could make it, the funnier it would be to me that people actually requested it.

This is a drawing of what it might look like if the Playaz' became Larry Holmes's corner men in his inevitable return to the ring to fight George Foreman.

This is my drawing depicting the time Manny's father appeared before the enitre high school dressed as Willie Nelson, unbeknownst to Manny, to sing a song he had written as the theme to our annual Fall Festival, "Frog Hollow". It still ranks as one of the greatest moments of my life.

This drawing was my idea for a Playaz Christmas card, which spawned many of the holiday photos you have seen on this blog.

This is a drawing I made as a rough idea of what our website would be like (before this blog came about and I realized I had no idea about anything to do with HTML). Here is a sneak peek at what our website will actually look like (just the first draft) www.playazball.com .

I'm not sure how to explain this one, except that it always made me laugh. Somehow we got on the discussion about how we are all worried about the well-being of our kids, and how do you know who is and who isn't a pedophile. I think I mentioned that clowns in the children's entertainment field would be suspect with me, but how would you know? I'm sure there are plenty of good guys who don't deserve that kind of scrutiny. So I drew this business card, that would include a pledge that would help ease the parents' minds when hiring for their kid's next birthday.