David-Wasting-Paper
Just a place for a forty-something year old to post sketches, monster movie memories, his frustrations with playing the guitar and a cornucopia of other boring stuff.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Recent Weather Journal Pages
Thursday, October 15, 2009
A REAL Chair!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Still Pressed For Time
Sunday, August 2, 2009
A Sad Day At David Wasting Paper
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Where The Hell Have I Been?
Last week I was at a store with my wife and we came across this book.
It is kind of geared to children but I've had a lot of fun doodling around with it. I sure wish I had it when I was a kid. Below are a few of them I tried.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Resophonics
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Put On Your PJ's and Pour a Bowl of Captain Crunch
Punkin Puss
Magilla Gorilla
The Impossibles
The Jetsons
Frankenstein Jr.
The Herculoids
Dino Boy
Space Ghost
Marine Boy (the only one I don't remember)
The Flintstones
Augie Dogie
Snooper and Blabber
Quick Draw McGraw & Baba Looey
The Porky Pig Show
Winsome Witch
Squiddley Diddly
Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey
Breezly and Sneezly
Peter Potamus and So-So
Hillbilly Bears
Precious Pupp
Atom Ant
Top Cat
Monday, May 11, 2009
How to Draw Stupid
Doing stuff wrong is how you learn to do it right.
Cartoons are all about using exaggeration in the service of communication.
It’s the characters personalities that people respond to.
The body is composed of three basic sections, head, rib-cage and pelvis. You should have all the sections oppose each other.
Two priorities in cartoon design: emotion and clarity.
In cartoons the eyes are where the characters live.
A good cartoon character should be easy for everyone to draw (i.e., Peanuts, Sponge Bob).
Simplify by eliminating details and also by exaggerating contrasts.
Leave nothing in the art that is not story information.
Streamline designs for clarity and easy repetition.
Every element of the cartoon should communicate.
Not using reference pictures is lazy.
Characters are defined by what they do.
People respond to characters not dialogue.
The purpose of entertainment is to manipulate emotions.
Antics are the moves that precede and anticipate a bigger move that follows. Antic is short for anticipation.
Avoid the “Hand of Death.” Most people don’t stand around talking with their hand just held out or floating in space. Have the characters hand doing something.
Stupid people are safe to ridicule, because they always think you are talking about someone else.
The eyes show what a character is thinking.
If you are drawing a strip with a stupid character, show the character thinking before doing something stupid. It makes them seem even more stupider.
Try to generate at least two conflicting emotions. Funny with a sad ending-romance with comedy-excitement with fear-depression with uplift.
Have your characters display a specific emotion state that’s specific to the situation and is played in character.
"How to Draw Stupid" is a great book packed with helpful tips for the cartoonist. If you are interested in drawing comics or cartoons you should definitely pick it up.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Drawing Monsters

Check out this new book by Randy Martinez, "Creature Features." It is chock full of how to instructions on drawing monsters of all shapes and sizes including the Classics.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Assignment For The Last Class
Now without further ado here is my comic strip. You kind of had to see Goodfellas to get it.
Monday, March 2, 2009
This Week's Cartooning Class Assignment
Monday, February 23, 2009
Play Me Some Art Supplies
I ordered a mess of Faber Castell Pitt artist pens with various nib sizes.
I also ordered a bunch of non-photo blue pencils. These are great because when you photocopy your inked drawing, the pencil lines don't show up which saves you from having to erase all of your sketching.
I ordered this neat spinney thing to hold all of the pens and pencils.
Speaking of cartooning, here are a couple of more drawings I've done for my class. This one I did of my instructor giving us some advice.

This one is an exercise showing motion. Not sure what he is running to or from, but whatever it is, he's in a hurry.

Monday, February 16, 2009
Cartooning Class Sketchbook
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Franken-Kitty and the Expressions
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Been Awhile
I had my first Cartooning class the other night and it was informative and well presented. I am looking forward to the remaining classes. It is being taught by Mat Brown http://www.matbrown.net/. After reading books and dreaming of doing something in the cartooning world it is nice to finally find a class that is taught by someone who not only does it for a living, but also has years of teaching under his belt.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Geekified Plain Wooden Pencil Boxes




Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Frankenstein Jr.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Recent Photos Of My "Work" Area
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Pig-Pen's Snowman
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Christmas Lights Journal Page

Sunday, November 23, 2008
Oldie But Goodie


Monday, November 17, 2008
Tagged?
Today I was tagged by Freebird over at http://freebirddrawing.blogspot.com/ . Due to the fact that this whole blogging thing is quite new to me, I had no idea what being tagged meant. For those of you who also don't know what "tagging" is, here are the rules;
1. Link to the person or persons who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
Here we go:
I have been playing the guitar for most of my life. I have never played in a band, however a couple of my buddies and I sometimes get together on Friday nights and jam. We can sound pretty good...after a couple of adult beverages. If we ever do become a band I'd like to call ourselves, "Shoes on the Highway." I always see lone shoes on the highway and wonder about the story of how they got there.
I am infatuated with old black and white Sci-Fi and Monster movies from the 30's through the 50's.
I will be married for 12 years on December 14th of this year and I couldn't be happier.
The first car that I ever owned was in 1978 and it was my grandfather's 1974 powder blue with black vinyl roof Dodge Dart. It was a four door and was quite the party mobile...sorry Grandpa.
I really miss going to Drive-in-Movies.
Hockey is and has always been my favorite sport. At one time I was a pretty good goalie. Alas, two years ago in a pickup game on one of the local ponds I busted up my shoulder pretty bad and my skates have been permanently retired to the back of the garage.
These are the six people that I in turn tagged. Sorry folks if you aren't into doing this but you were on my list.
1. Zeke at
2. Stephanie at http://deliberatelycreative.blogspot.com/
3. Sharon at http://kunstrxns.blogspot.com/
4. Starr at http://wistex1129.blogspot.com/
5. Brenda at http://amberridgedesert.blogspot.com/
6. Plo at http://forcryeye.blogspot.com/
































