31 Drawings of October, weeks 4 and 5

Day 22

“Beauty begins the moment you decide to become yourself.”

Drawn 10/19/2015


Day 23

“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented hell.” – Bertrand Russell

Drawn 10/23/2014


Day 24

“Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A Parable.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Drawn 10/8/2009


Day 25

I asked AI to make a drawing in my style and after 18 iterations with me correcting AI and having them edit it, this is what it came up with. The only thing accurate in the whole drawing is that it has a two-headed snake, something I actually do draw with some frequency. Otherwise, it’s not very good.


Day 26

“Great scientific discoveries have been made by men and women skeeing to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.” – Aldous Huxley

Drawn 10/17/2011


Day 27

Tired Jack O’Lantern – Halloween


Day 28

“The best thing about religion is that it produces heretics.” – Ernst Bloch

Drawn 10/24/2025


Day 29

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween!

Drawn 10/28/2009


Day 30

Eat, Drink and be Scary! – Halloween

Drawn 10/30/2012


Day 31

Halloween!!

Drawn 10/31/2012


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31 Drawings of October, week 3

Day 15

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”


Day 16

“The Judge Knot #5 – Don’t judge me because I sin differently from you.”

Drawn 10/12/2012


Day 17

“Beautiful people are not always good but good people are always beautiful.”

Drawn 10/21/2015


Day 18

How to Draw a Napkin – Step 1: Learn to Draw

Drawn 10/16/2012


Day 19

How to Draw A Napkin – Step 2: Become an artist

Drawn 10/17/2012


Day 20

How to Draw A Napkin – Step 3: Have a show


Day 21

How to Draw A Napkin – Step 4: Have babies


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31 Drawings of October, Week 2

Day 8

“Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the artist.” – Sylvie Guillem


Day 9

“The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.” – William Randolph Hearst

Drawn 10/19/2010


Day 10

“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.” – Kathleen Norris

Drawn 10/1/2010


Day 11

‘Reclining Student’

Watercolor on paper, 1974, Western College, Oxford, Ohio


Day 11

“Millions of common solutions do not exist for all the millions of private problems.” – anonymous


Day 12

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” – Bertrand Russell

Drawn 10/26/2010


Day 13

“Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”

Drawn 10/5/2009


Day 14

“Power is the ability not to have to please.”

Drawn 10/12/2016


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31 Drawings of October, week 1

Day 1

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

I drew and posted this a year ago along with the story of my mother’s brain hemorrhage and my extensive burns. Go here to read it.


Day 2

“Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant, author

And that’s why devout and scared people of any stripe don’t often intellectually venture outside their silo. They don’t want to be challenged when their well being is dependent on them knowing exactly how everything already is. Upset that and kaboom, up goes their world in flames.


Day 3

“If you analyze your happiness you become sad.” – Miguel Hernández


Day 4

“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.” – Molly Ringwald


Day 5

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.”

Drawn 10/10/2011


Day 6

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”

Drawn 10/14/2011


Day 7

“Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.”

Drawn 10/23/2018


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30 Drawings of September, week 4

Day 26

“Humans are wealthy in proportion to the things they can do without.”

Henry David Thoreau


Day 27

“The soul without imagination is an observatory without a telescope.”

Henry Ward Beecher


Day 28

“In order to love who you are you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.”

Andréa Dykstra

Drawn 9/6/2017


Day 29

Waiting at SFO

I drew this as I was waiting at the San Francisco airport to come back to Dallas. It was fun because a young girl sitting next to me was watching, mesmerized, the whole time. I asked her if I should show it to the woman and she said yes because it was really good. I think she liked it more than the woman did.
I painted it with Copic markers after I got home, finishing it this morning.


Day 30

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but all very lively debate within that spectrum.”

Drawn 9/6/2012


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