Sketch book music video

I just found this via moleskinerie. Very inspiring. Makes me want to draw something in my sketch book!

NOITES DE UM VERÃO QUALQUER - MUSIC VIDEO from CONRADO ALMADA on Vimeo.

The Rappin' Mathematician

I'm not sure why this is the third post recently of someone standing in front of an audience with a microphone. Coincidence, I suppose.

Anyway, this was at a PTA meeting I attended with my daughter this evening. The guest speaker was Alex Kajitani, aka the "Rappin' Mathematician". He was very inspiring, talking about reaching middle school kids using rap to teach algebra. Here's a YouTube video from a CBS newscast that explains it pretty well. He was showing us his student - produced music videos about parallel lines and negative and positive numbers. I got the room pretty well, and his physical attitude, but I was not so good with his likeness. So, when he sat down after the presentation, I got to remedy that:


These were both line drawings done in my sketch book at the event, then brought home, scanned and value added in Photoshop.

Sketches from the public education meeting

These were some quick line drawings that I did during the meeting last night and then added value in Photoshop.


It was an important meeting. Letting us know about layoffs of teachers and options they were considering. Pretty depressing, actually.

Joan Teaching

This sketch was done just minutes ago. My wife teaching kids art. We had lunch together at the school. Now, back to work!

7 Elements of an Effective Portfolio Website

I just found this on Thomas James' site: 7 Elements of an Effective Portfolio Website. Excellent information there. I found it via Leif Peng's Today's Inspiration -- a site I visit nearly every day.

Karaoke singer

Banana and Foot

So far the new sketch book is working out wonderfully.

Kids at the grandparents' house

Just a quick sketch of the kids watching TV at their grandparents' house.

End of the year / sketchbook roundup #3

Very satisfying getting these uploaded finally!


A typical scene from work...


At the Moonlight Roller Rink


The kids and their cousins after a sleep-over.


I don't know why these two drawings are put together, but they are.




Another one with the Ackerman Pump pen. More on that later...




Anotha cuppa java.

End of the year / sketchbook roundup #2

"Purging" these drawings from my old sketchbook before putting it up on the shelf. I have got to learn to post more often, as I draw them, to prevent the inevitable backlog...


Sketches from a meeting








I finally got one of these and I'm hooked, despite myself. I can't imagine life without it :)