Cylons is Golden
Sorry. I can’t resist a pun, and I’ve been itching to use this since the late 1970s. When ABC rushed Battlestar Galactica into production in the wake of the phenomenal success of Star Wars, it was...
View ArticleYECCH!!! Looks, Feels Real!
The Finger Factory? Was it a cottage industry or was there a brick and mortar building where workers punched a time clock to crank out life-like severed fingers? I have so many questions: How many...
View ArticleFaster than a Speeding Primate
I was stumped for an idea for a Valentine this year so I sat with a sketchbook and hoped my pencil would do my thinking for me. My favorite mechanical pencil with the fabulous 0.9mm indigo blue leads...
View ArticleIt was either Art School or This…
Back when I was pondering what I wanted to do with my life, the fast growing/big money world of van customization beckoned to me like a siren singing a sweet song from the rocks. I could have been...
View ArticleA Missed Opportunity
With the remakes and reboots of Planet of the Apes that have been playing out in cinemas in recent years I’m surprised nobody has decided to put these swinging medallions back on the market. Back...
View ArticleInstant Arsenal of Power
I chuckle at how crude the ads were in comic books with their utter lack of finesse and marketing acumen, but when I think about it, I realize that these advertisers didn’t have to rely on focus groups...
View ArticleChicks Will Dig You!
Is it the mod haircut, the happening turtleneck or the aloof attitude? Or could it be that you pack a punch like DYNAMITE! It’s a scientific fact that the ability to cripple a man with your bare hands...
View ArticleWhich One is Pink?
This post is sort of an addendum to my earlier post. It’s the digital cherry on my analog sundae. This morning I was playing with a hand-drawn doodle featured in Rumble in the Record Store. I always...
View ArticleSunday Funnies
Now you can enjoy the adventures of Mickey the Monkey and Sylvia the Bird in a mobile device friendly format right here at Willceau Illo News! Read it HERE! Like what you see? Let us know about it in...
View ArticleThere are those who believe…
Lately, I’ve been watching trash and sketching, and I certainly watched some trash while completing the doodles in today’s post, but nothing really stood out as worth mentioning. There may have been...
View ArticleExhuming Dead & Buried while Drawing
I returned to my Roku’s Amazon Video channel in order to bask in trash that I can halfway ignore while sketching. The great thing about Amazon’s Prime besides the expedited shipping is the addition of...
View ArticleSwing and a Miss
Here is another doodle with Derwent Dark Wash pencils. This one was done in a Canson XL Mix Media pad which I will be using regularly just as soon as the Sketchbook from Heaven is exhausted which I’m...
View ArticleThe Brotherhood of Post-Apocalyptic Mutant Dinosaurs
Father Rex of The Brotherhood of Post-Apocalyptic Mutant Dinosaurs. I’m not sure where this guy came from or why he exists, but he wound up in what remains in the dwindling Sketchbook from Heaven...
View ArticleGoing…going…
The Sketchbook from Heaven is fading fast. I only have a couple of blank pages left as of this writing. I’ll soon be moving on to the sketchbook I cleaved in two in order to approximate the aspect...
View ArticleAsk Your Father
Ma, it says right here that they’ll send ya ‘ONE PREGNANT MALE who will give birth to as many as 25 babies!’ How can that be, Ma? How can that be? This was an advertisement that regularly appeared in...
View ArticleJust Like Heaven
A year ago I was polishing off what turned out to be one of my all-time favorite sketchbooks which I referred to as The Sketchbook from Heaven. I tried to find or, in some cases, make a replacement,...
View ArticleDick Blick Licked
I’ve put another sketchbook to rest. I’ve had this one for a while. I bought it from Dick Blick back in 2012. I think I bought it because I thought an 8 inch by 10 inch pad would be a … Continue reading →
View ArticleFat Sacks of CASH
Apparently, some time around the middle of the twentieth century this fellow was making FAT SACKS OF CASH selling America’s Greatest Family Newspaper GRIT. At least that was the potential promise to...
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