REPAIR

SocMo has a plan to REPAIR our country. It is the only plan that will really FIX IT! But first you have to elect him president. So when you go to the polls, remember to write in SocMo! That Tiger Woods guy and Yosemite Sam both have plans, but they won't FIX IT like SocMo's plan will FIX IT. SocMo's plan will FIX IT and FIX IT good! And it will stay FIXED! So vote for the FIX IT guy... vote SocMo!

Must see TV!

Here is a sketch I made while watching the final presidential debate last night. I think it could be a new TV series... what do you think?

STRING

During a campaign speech, SocMo noticed a loose STRING... pulled it... and his tail fell off.
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My personal challenge is to take the Illustration Friday word, combine it with SocMo, throw in his presidential campaign and see if I can squeeze an idea out of it. Sometimes it is easy... but usually it isn't. When I am having trouble coming up with an idea, I have to remind myself of the advice that Charles Schulz would give. He said after all, cartooning is just drawing funny pictures. So I defaulted back to just drawing a funny picture... and got my idea.

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It's Funny Fishy Friday! This is another very old sketch from way back. This reminds me, there was a time when frozen fish sticks were a staple in my diet. Those days are long gone now. No more frozen Burritos either. But I do pop in a frozen DiGiorno pizza once in a while....ummmm good!

Star Wars

I know what you are thinking. What is Star Wars all about? I need help understanding it all. Well, here is help. Star Wars explained by a 3 year old. Watch this... it will be the best one and a half minutes you spend today!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO

Sugary/Packed

Running a presidential campaign requires a lot of energy. That is why front runner SocMo starts each day with a great big SUGARY bowl of Sugar Frosted Chocolate Coated Wing Nuts. His bag is PACKED, and he is confident that the American people will be sending him to the White House very soon. I mean... just look at the other two candidates... this is NO contest!
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Since I missed last week on Illustration Friday, I combined the word for last week with this week. A two for one deal!

This month JONESAPALOOZA is THREE years old! In October 2005 I found Illustration Friday and wanted to play along. I created this blog as a place to put my entries. If you would like to see my very first entry just CLICK HERE. I needed a character to use for the word FLOAT, so I used a character based on an old sock monkey I had when I was small. SocMo's looks have changed some since then, but he has appeared in a lot of IF challenges and is now running for President of the U.S. of A.! WOo.

The quality of my Illustration Friday entries is all over the board. Some were well thought out and carefully executed, while others were dashed out in minutes. I have also learned a lot about Photoshop over the last 3 years here. This is where I do some experimenting with Photoshop to see what happens if I do THIS. Some expeirments work out OK, others don't... but I post them all. Even this week I was trying to figure out how to add the letters behind SocMo as an add on after I had finished the illustration. A good little challenge, but I did it!

As a special bonus for SocMo fans, I have now painstakingly gone through 3 years of posts and added some labels. If you go to the side bar and look under LABELS, you will find ALL SocMo postings grouped by years. Click on a year and take a walk down memory lane. Please... SOMEbody do it... or else I have just wasted my entire Sunday afternoon.

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It's a secret agent kind of guy. I think he can listen in on other people's conversations with his special iPod. It is special because it has that little antenna, see? There are little marks coming from the antenna that indicate he is listening to classified government secrets... or MIchael Buble...

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Here is a very old sketch from the bottom of a pile. I think the final version of this probably appeared as an Illustration Friday post. I was hoping meat loafers would catch on. If you get hungry you can eat a shoe... and later have the other one for lunch. But then you have to walk home barefoot. Oh, well.... back to the drawing board...

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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush"

I had to illustrate a few proverbs and wise sayings recently. While I was sketching on this one, I thought of this twist on the saying. It has probably been done before... by someone else... but I thought of it all by myself. So there. The sketch was such a mess that I decided to clean it up a bit and add some color. This could be our whole problem... too many birds in the Bush.

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A sly wink of the eye causes grief. (Proverbs 10:10)

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Another day... another doodle. Do all bakers wear checked pants?

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What's black and white and red all over? This is a pencil sketch on tracing paper. After it was scanned, I did a little Colorize trick with Photoshop... just to make it a bit more snazzy. Have a snazzy weekend!

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It's old Nebuchadnezzer or Neb as his buddies call him. And he seems upset at something doesn't he? Must be cuz I put a silly hat on him.

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A pig doing Karate... nothing unusual about that! I think this was done for a joke whos punchline was... "pork chop"

CLIQUE

As SocMo's presidential campaign travels around the country, he is often mobbed by autograph seekers. SocMo is happy to to sign autographs using his fancy French ball-point pen which makes a nice "CLIQUE" when he pushes the button.... which he does a lot... maybe too much...

NOTE: I have started posting a small doodle each day now. If you have missed out, just CLICK HERE to catch up.

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It's Monday... and we continue on our quest to post a doodle a day. Here is Mr. Laptop... man of the year.

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I draw a lot of kids. Here is a very loose girl... er make that a loose SKETCH of a girl... who is 2 heads tall. I like the way figures look when they are 2 heads tall. This was drawn with a Col-Erase Carmine Red pencil.

Doodle two sounds like toodle loo...

doodle

I'm not one of those people who can draw something the first time. I'm more the one who draws something the fiftieth time. Which means a lot of doodles happen between my initial sketch and what I am eventually satisfied with. And more often than not, I like the loose doodles more than the finished piece.

For example... I went to Google Images and found pictures of the Fantasy Island guys. (see post under this one) After many attempts, I wasn't really getting anywhere with my idea of doing a funny drawing of the characters. I went on to other things. I did some more drawings from the photos later. Still nothing. Then, while I was working on something else, I picked up a Micron pen and down in the extreme corner of my page dashed off this little doodle. I liked it! It resembled the guys but in the cartoony way that I was after. Everything perking in my noggin, came together and flowed out my pen. This doodle became the basis for my Fantasy Island drawing.

So here is what I am thinking. I have lots of random little doodles laying around, and lots of Blogger space to fill. I think I will start posting doodles between the other things here. Let me know what you think of them. Now you have a reason to come back and see what's NEW here!

Enjoy, as they say... :0)

ISLAND

My friends, welcome... to FANTASY ISLAND!

Way back in the late 70's and early 80's Fantasy Island was broadcast by ABC. Each week several people would arrive by plane to experience their ultimate fantasy. They had paid $50,000 for the experience. Each episode began with Mr. Roarke and his diminutive sidekick, Tattoo waiting for the guests to arrive. Tattoo would announce "Da Plane! Da Plane!" The plane would land and the guest stars of the week would be revealed. The highlight of the program for me was hearing Tattoo shout "Da Plane! Da Plane!" TV was kinder and gentler back then.

CLUTTER

After you sort through all the visual CLUTTER, your choice for president will be crystal clear.

SocMo amazed America last week when he announced his running mate. Well, actually he announced that he does not NEED a running mate. Sock monkeys never die, they just get repaired. Sew on an arm... attach a new eye... add a bit of stuffing. You're good to go! If only it were that simple for us!

As SocMo campaigns across the country on his tour bus (a converted garbage truck, but tricked out really nice) he is often asked what party he belongs to. He always answers... "the Pizza Party, who's buying?" This has provided many meals for him and is what keeps his fledgling campaign afloat.

His campaign has suffered a few setbacks in recent weeks. Last month his finance manager disappeared along with all of the profits from the sales of "I GO SOCMO" items. He just took that bag of nickels and vanished! SocMo learned a valuable lesson from this... you just can't trust relatives.