Coloring Book Page #3: Hat's Off!

Hello my little Merry Maladies and welcome to the second week of April, 2013. Did anybody pull off any spectacular April fools jokes or get taken in by any? If so I'd love to hear about it! Please feel free to share in the comment section below. This post however is no prank; I am still giving away coloring book pages and will continue to do so this whole week, so stay tuned!

And once again if you'd like to share your coloring expertise, I'd love to see it. Email me a scan or photo at beardedmaladies@gmail.com or take an instagram photo of it and tag me in it @ischraer. 

Coloring Book Page #2

Followers of my old blog may recognize this gent from a drawing I did several years ago. Well now you have the opportunity to color him in any way you want! All you have to do is download this image, print it up, and break out the crayolas. This continues my giveaway of coloring book pages I have drawn that will never be used for anything else. 

If you DO end up coloring this guy in and want to share it with me send a scan or photo to beardedmaladies@gmail.com or instagram it and tag me in the picture @ischraer. I'd love to see your work and I'll even post it up on the blog. Do it!

Stay tuned for even more free coloring book pages to satisfy your artistic whimsy. 

Free Coloring Book Page!

Hey everybody! I've been hard at work on various projects and as you know I've been creating a lot of coloring book images lately. I've created so many infact, that we simply can't use all of them, so I decided to post the extras here and give them away for free!

Please feel free to download this image and color it in at your leisure, and if you find the time I'd love to see your work! You can email pictures or scans to me at beardedmaladies@gmail.com or take an instagram and tag me in it @ischraer. Also keep checking back here in the next few days because I have a handful more of these that I'm going to post.

Side Order of Fry Guy

For the second installment of colorful creatures from my childhood we have one of McDonald's Fry Guys. Thanks for the suggestion Lannice! I had pretty much forgotten about these dudes, but if you take the McDonald's association away from them they're actually pretty cool little characters. Amorphous googley eyed, glasses wearing pom pom creatures sporting socks and high tops? YES! I'd like to see a movie/tv show/comic strip about a whole society of these guys. And what do they have to do with french fries? Yeah I get it that their hair (fur?) resembles shoestring cut fries, but come on, that's a stretch. And even if that is all there is, that is totally weird. 

I probably won't do any more affiliated mascots after this one, but I'm still taking suggestions for other creatures to draw. My default is to just draw monsters that appeared in the background of Jabba's Palace so if you don't want to see that then let's hear those suggestions!

E.T.(ree's Lounge)

"I haven't phoned home in years. Don't think I have one to go back to."

Remember that ultra depressing Steve Buscemi movie from the 90s (Tree's Lounge) where he plays an alcoholic? As I sat down to draw E.T. last night, like I sometimes do, I realized that he started resembling a down on his luck Steve Buscemi, so I gave him a cigarette a blue background to complete the scene. 

It sure was a nice break to draw something quick and fun since the majority of the work I've been doing the past few months has been so precise and line based. Hoping to do more like this in the future of some of my other favorite creatures. Any suggestions?

"Eye'll have what he's having"

I've been interested in body parts and facial features lately and I'm still figuring out the best way to explore this interest.

 In the meantime here's a drawing of my brother eating a rather glaring portion of  eyeball cake. 

Walrus Murray

Recently there were some delightful pictures of Bill Murray floating around the internet and I was inspired to sketch one of them out. 

I realize it has been a month since my last post which is CRAZY, so I'm going to try and be better about posting new arts on here. Fortunately I have a good reason for my long absence. Last month I signed a contract with my friend Ari Cohen of Advanced Style fame to officially publish our Advanced Style Coloring Book with powerHouse Books. I've been hard at work on 10 new drawings for this edition (I've actually done 17 so we can have a bigger pot to choose from) but unfortunately I can't share them with you guys until the book is published!

So sit tight everyone because more art is coming your way.