I wonder what would happen if, during my painting class in Florence, I decided to go rogue and just start painting cartoon cows. “You got my tuition, I’ll paint what I want! You don’t know me! You don’t know me!”

Twice a week, Matt Kohr of CtrlPaint.com posts short tutorials and tips that are helpful for both analog and digital artists. Today’s sketch is based on one of his recent videos, in whic he suggests doing gesture drawings from movie freeze frames. You can use these gestures as practice, or as future reference for your own characters. Here I used Charles Foster Kane going bananas over a girl or a sled or something.

I don’t know why I’m such a couch potato lately. Conserving energy for the big trip in 2 weeks? Here’s what my hand did while I concentrated on Captain Spaulding.

A couple of my typical “slightly off” caricature sketches while watching TV.

This is me after several hours of trying to set up a WordPress blog. My current blogging platform, Posterous, is probably going away at some point (they were bought out by Twitter and seem to be coasting), so I’m gearing up to make a switch. I’ve had a few WordPress blogs, and I see myself falling into the same trap as always. Because WordPress is so configurable, I end up spending more time under the hood than actually creating content.