pencil drawing, glendale, 1977
I used to drink entirely too much. Not something I'm particularly proud of but it's just the truth.
I used to go out carousing with my friends on weekend nights terrorizing the Los Angeles metropolis in drunken drugged out all night insanities.
It was fun, actually. Later in life, it stopped being fun. But when we were young, going out at night and being crazy was great fun.
I made the above drawing after one such night with my comrade Johnny. We had left a string of terror down Sunset Blvd. that night, and after we got back to my place, in the wee small hours of the morning, Johnny passed out on my couch. There he sat like an angel, but trust me, behind that gentle face slept a maniac.
And me? I was never too drunk to draw.
A few minutes after I drew the above drawing I felt a bit looser so I drew another one that better captured the spirit.
pencil drawing, glendale, 1977
Oh, for the record, I stopped drinking in 1995.
I had an appointment one morning with a judge who gave me a chilling ultimatum that scared the shit out of me and that I wisely heeded.
Cold turkey.
Thirty years now.
Sometimes I can't believe I survived my youth.
Thank you Judge Sawyer.
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colored pencil & ballpoint pen, calbayog city, 2025
You see Doc, I tell myself that I'm not going to draw another one, and then, I just... do it.
Red, lavender, pink and tangerine.
C0l03 - Tezeta
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Wicked game - Chris Isaak
ballpoint pen and alcohol
Calbayog City 2024
Today's drawing.
When I finished this drawing I had ink all over my hands and rubbing alcohol all over my lap... and a new face staring at me.
Art is magic.
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in no particular order. The Soundtrack of my Life continues…
Sunday mornings
Ballpoint pen on an envelope
Los Angeles 2015
Today is our 10th wedding anniversary.
What a trip.
I drew this about a year after we got married.
I still love hanging out in bed on Sunday mornings cept now we have two little kids sleeping with us.
Filipino style.
This one
black sharpie on poster board
Rosemead 2012
This drawing exists, somewhere.
I did this drawing a few years back. After I finished the drawing I took this picture of it with my cell phone and then I gave the drawing to my brother. Never a good idea but I love him and he liked it so why not. He actually had it framed and he put it up in his office at work. Prominently displayed. For a few years and then he left that job and had to clear out his office so he took it home. My brother owns a big house with a lot of piles of stuff in the attic and in the basement and in the garage and in closets and last year when I asked him if I could borrow the drawing so I could get a better picture of it he said he'd look for it and then after a day or so he told me he couldn't find it. It's buried in one of the piles somewhere he said and well, he can't find it.
So it goes my friends.
I know it's there somewhere.
Drives me nutz.
I'm glad I took the picture.
Nothing else matters - Metallica
Pencil drawing
Calbayog City 2024
I know I used this song just two posts ago but seriously folks, this song talks to me.
About this drawing.
I tinkered with this drawing all day today and it's not finished, but I am, so here's where it ends.
Not unlike a couple of relationships I've had.
Lather - Jefferson Airplane
Black sharpie on paper
Hollywood 2018
I have this idea for a science fiction story.
In the story during an unborn child's nine months in the womb, the child's entire life is slowly played out for them like in a movie so that by the time they are born they know everything that is going happen to them in their life.
In the story then when the mother is about to give birth, the unborn child faces the opening cervix and looks out to their inevitable future with dread.
Being born then wipes away all memory of this.
But each person then leads their lives with the uneasy feeling that everything is a forgone conclusion.
Second thoughts
Black sharpie on paper
Hollywood 2018
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Go to your local county hospital. If your glucose level is high they will adjust it and admit you if necessary. Once they learn of your financial situation they will set you up with a social worker who will arrange for your insulin. I've worked in many county hospitals and I've never seen anyone in need of insulin turned down.
pencil and watercolor
Calbayog City 2024
Daily drawing.
The masters make it all look so easy. Drives me nuts. 🤣
6B pencil in my Moleskin
Calbayog City 2024
As usual, listen to both songs before voting, and define "better" any way you wish! (Although by now, you've probably heard all these songs many times over.)
We fall astray when we deny nature. 74. Living on a small island in the Philippines.
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