NEW gum wrapper drawings

Here's some of my newer gum wrappers, from late 2009. As always, you can click for a larger image, but these won't be SO huge like the earlier ones, as I had to scan at a lower resolution. Which is probably better. Any questions?

First wrapper I drew after taking a month
or so off - sketchers block, as it were. I like this deer.

This is of a painting I've been slowly working on
for months - this sketch shows what I want
the final colors to be, so I've been using it as a guide.

It seemed like I should have thought of this
one a long time ago, seeing as these are Orbit wrappers

I like lamp(s).

This is a modified version of a Koch Snowflake, and
is also the 2nd longest I've spent ever doing one of
these drawings - I tried to make it as precise as possible
using only a college rule notebook and some pens. The
smallest triangles should be exactly 3mm on each side.

This is UC-Denver Medical School's seal -
I drew a couple of these to send off as thank you
letters to my interviewers there.

I like cross-stitch type designs, so I doodled one.
Good story, huh!

Twelve More Wrappers!

A whole bunch of the 'lost' gum wrappers I had on my laptop, including several of my favorites:

"The Tree"

Probably my favorite colored-pencil design,
and the one I spent the most time coloring.

"Mislabel Original"
An exact copy of a fox design I had in
my little notebook. This is my favorite
of my designs to sketch.

"Mislabel - clean"
What the name says.

"Mislabel - 1"
This is the first of the truly mislabels -
I still really like the idea.

"Mislabel - 2"
I prefer both the lettering and the fox
in this one over the "Mislabel - 1"

"Lighthouse"
The first design I colored in. Also, a very rough
and early example of the wave-pattern I use for
other, non-gum wrapper seascapes.

"Telephone"
My family has a rotary phone like this set up
in our sitting room, that I use whenever I'm there.

"Piggy"
So, it turns out that the cinnamon Orbit gum
stains the wrapper pink, letting you only draw
pink things on it. Hence, a pig.

"Hands Recursion"
Based on a sketch I did in physics several years ago.
It looked a bit cooler when I was actually drawing it,
what with the 3rd hand and all.

"Lava Lamp"
I like the shading on the wax. No other comments.

"Jimmy the St. Pat's Eggplant"
I wanted to draw an eggplant, and I wanted
to try and draw a vest. Together, they're better.

"Gamboy Original"
I think this was the 3rd sketch I did on
gum wrappers. I also still have my Gamboy,
in working condition!

MORE GUM WRAPPERS!

WOW. I completely forgot to get these gum wrappers correctly saved on my computer. I was wondering why it seemed like I had missed a few in my earlier posts ... Anyway, here's about 1/2 of the "missing" gum wrappers, I'll put the other ones up Monday sometime.

"Emoticon-Man"
This one makes me :D

"ZOMBIES!"
I only regret not adding more green to the skin.

"The Brain"
Based off a sketch in my anatomy notebook.

"Control Board"
Little sketch of the KMNR control board

"Mini - rough"
This was a practice sketch for another drawing
that I never actually got started on.

"Desktop"
I drew the book, felt really good about it,
and then quickly added the background to flesh
it out a bit more.

"Lexography - 1"
Turns out 'Lexographic' isn't a word, it's a portmanteau
that the author of the book I read it in had made up. Damn.

"Lexography - 2"
I like the first one more.

"The Dancers"
Other people have told me they really like this one,
but I spent so much time on it that I just see
all the bits I think I could do better.

"The Sprite"
I have no explination.

Scorpicat, Smiley Robber-Baron, Snapman, Sperm Whale, Worm

I forgot I had these last 5 gum wrappers to post - which is sad, because of them 4 are some of my favorites! Thesse are the last group from the Spring of 2009. I have a few from the summer I'm still editing, and a bunch more from the Fall and now, which will be posted ... IN THE FUTURE!

I love scorpicat. And so do you.
You know you do.

Smiley robber baron makes me happy
to have had all my money scammed
in that newfangled train scandal!

KMNR's mascot. Kinda.

^My favorite. But you probably could have guessed that.

I don't know why, but I really like this worm.

4 patterns

Sorry, I got swamped today with emails - 14,781 to be exact. I hate it when technology doesn't work. Anyway, here's a series of four patterns I did. Some of them have stories behind them, but I'm late for a meeting, so you just get these.

Enjoy!

KMNR 1 and 2, Outmode of Transportation, and Puffs

Again, the gum wrappers I use (Orbit) can't be erased on, so all these were done in one shot. I think it's obvious on some of the wrappers I've posted in the past ....

I know it's simple, but I like this KMNR.

Almost bought one of these. But it was $1050, and
did not work. So I didn't.

I hated this when I finished it, but
it's grown on me since.

H.S.S. Misnomer, Hourglass, Primion, Lightbulb

Gum wrappers today and tomorrow while I get stuff organized.

One of my favorites - probably the wrapper
I spent the most time on. Actually, 2nd most.

I was REALLY bored in class -
felt like it was taking forever.

I spent a lot of time making the word-
frames look sufficiently '60's, then blew
through the car's drawing.

Based off the lightbulb for 'Rusty's Day Camp'

Elemental Man and the Crumpled Wrappers

Elemental Man even has goggles, the lanthanides, AND the actinides!

The other ones (with the exception of Sputnik) were made first by crumpling up the gum wrapper, then coloring the outside of the resultant ball with black ink, unfolding it, and sketching the first thing I see outlined on the wrapper. These were a lot of fun, and nice to do when I didn't know what to draw.

Sputnik was planned, unlike the other crumpled wrappers. I just liked the idea, and thought crumpling would look good with it.

These are in order of when I drew them, first to last.

'Mouse'

'Rabbit'

'Dragonfly'

'Sputnik'
Silver Sharpie used on the hull, except
for the dull gray 'sheen'