Practicing inking over Wally Wood’s artwork from Mad using Frenden’s Flexible Nib brush for Manga Studio 5.

Doodling on the iPad while nodding off to SNL.

Ah yes, another “too tired to think of anything to draw” post. My new job hasn’t been difficult so far, but the adaptation to new surroundings and meeting new people seems to be enough to make me power down after work. Sure, I’m still up at 11pm posting this, but trust me, if you put your ear against mine right now, you could hear the ocean.

I realize I’ve been falling down on the drawing job, but a quick book review is better than nothing, right? As you probably know, I sometimes like to interrupt my regularly scheduled frugality to make late-night Internet shopping purchases. Usually it’s something that plugs into my computer, but this is something much more unique. Devoid of context, the book shown above may look like an ordinary reprint culled from Mad Magazine‘s early years, when it existed as a comic book.

For a change of pace, here’s some photo restoration, which in this case is mostly just digital painting and experimenting with texture overlays. Here are a couple of side-by-side comparisons: