Man, I hate to be posting so late but it always seems to happen this way on the weekends.  This creative thing was friday night.  It has been busy and a small monkey-wrench was thrown into my weekend plans.

Directly after work I drove home to drop off my stuff and give June a goodnight kiss, then I left her with grandma and met up with Jenny and friends out on the town for a grand re-opening of a local art gallery in Fullerton called The Hibbleton.

I have talked a bit about Jesse La Tour on this blog before.  I interviewed him on Day 117 and I also did a MAD Magazine-style last-page-fold-in, which related to his current run for Fullerton City Council.  He’s an interesting guy and he’s also part owner of The Hibbleton art gallery.  Fullerton is full to the brim with bars nowadays and there are plenty of meatheads roaming the streets.  But, the truth is there is a great underground art and music scene here and I was happily surprised to see that the new location consisted of not just the Hibbleton but three separate galleries all connected together.  Art doesn’t sell like liquor around here so it’s good to see the galleries joining arms in support of each other.

I planned on heading home around 10pm to get to my parents garage early enough to work on my Harmonograph table.  This whole weekend was supposed to be about the Harmonograph.  Unfortunately, I was also called to work on Saturday evening to cover a shoot (ie. The Monkey-Wrench).  So, the Harmonograph was out for this weekend.

Instead of getting home by ten Jenny and I joined friends for drinks and didn’t get home until midnight.  I had to figure out a new creative thing on the spot and I was feeling a little tipsy.  I perused my blog a bit wondering what to do and I remembered a very early post that I did on Day 010 / Characters In The Concrete.  In that I mentioned how the splotches and pockmarks in the concrete at my work could be inspiration for a little character design.  So, that is what I decided to do.

I imported the picture of concrete into Inkscape and then freehand drew over top of them with the Wacom tablet.  I colored them in Photoshop because I am still a novice in Inkscape.  Plus, hitting any obstacle when you’re tired and tipsy seems bigger than it actually is.  I think they came out pretty cool.