Direct-ink sketches from tonight’s Sketch Charlotte meetup. At left, customer with bigass awesome beard. Right, my buddy Henry, making funny faces as he drew, knowing that I was drawing him. Tonight I rediscovered the joys of direct-ink sketching. Forced my mind to tune in as it turned off and let my eyes and pen do the rest. As always, wonderful to see everyone, laugh, and try to figure out what the hell kind of movies or TV shows they were talking about.
A 5-minute sketch I did yesterday to see how drawing fast might work for me (or not).
Here’s the pencils to a cover I’m working on for Comicopia. Now onto inks! 
Tom is a self-published cartoonist and artist/writer of Circle City Tales. He is a proud member of Comicopia and Sketch Charlotte, and also works as a fashion retail art director in Charlotte, NC. When not drawing you might find Tom on the yoga mat, vegetable gardening, drinking a cold one, or snapping a few Polaroids with his vintage camera ... or just daydreaming about mysterious things that go bump in the night. He is married to yoga instructor Yvonne Brown, and they have two cats, Tabla and Maizie, who actually own the house they live in.
