Left to My Own Devices - John Casey Harris Week 13

I was at the Coffee Bean near Sunset Plaza with my friend Steven; we were out to draw dinosaurs and hopefully see Laura Dern (because, why not).

I started sketching a tyrannosaurus, when I added a rider and from there I added a triceratops. I started sketching a second rider when Steven commented that it sort of looked like Angela Lansbury. STROKE OF GENIUS. Literally rolling on the floor, foaming at the mouth, dreaming of the possibilities. Angela Lansbury + Dinosaurs?!? Somewhere, Einstein's ghost was racking his brain with the mathematics of this truly momentous occasion.

A few flicks of the pen and my second rider was officially Angela, but we got to musing and trying to create a story... could we one up Angela Lansbury? A tough order to be sure, but we came up with one better... but that's something I'll have to save for later... because its still a dream rattling around inside our heads and not yet ready for prying eyes :)

Its just a pen and ink sketch, but conceptually its one of my favorite things I've done this term.

O hai dinasur! - Casey Harris - Week 13

Remember "Where's the Wand," a piece I posted several weeks ago? Here are some small thumbnails of the same t-rex character in different scenarios. first he's found a balloon, then celebration Thanksgiving! Nom nom nom!

John Casey Harris - Where's the Wand?!?

This was an assignment from last term. We were asked, "if we could view any event or period in natural history, what would it be?" Naturally I responded "DINOSAURS! I WANNA SEE DINOSAURS!"

Then the twist. The same question had been given to a group of local first graders and each of us was given one of their responses written on a small piece of paper. Our assignment was to combine the two responses into a series of images.

Mine read "Where's the w**d?!"

Which wasn't that bad. My friend got "I wanna watch Jesus and RoboCop have sex," but REALLY?

Weren't these supposed to be first graders? As in 7 years old? How do they even know about these things. I'm pretty sure RoboCop was rated R... AND CAME OUT IN 1987!

Despite the obvious interpretation, I choose to believe (go denial!) that the kid had been a Harry Potter fan, thus this illustration was born!

The idea for the comic was that the young wizard performed a spell horribly wrong, thus catapulting his wand somewhere into the distant past, where it is found by a precocious juvenile tyrannosaurus!!!