A fun project kicked off in the Christmas crunch last month with a mail order asking for some Wacky drawings.
You may have noticed that page on this site: I do some odd and interesting drawings here and there, usually as surprise gifts from photos. Normally the client has no idea what I will do. They just provide a list of interests the person has and I work up something off the wall and – we hope – amusing.
But FIRST here is my revamped drawing of poor old victimized Tiger baby, who is being abused without mercy in the media. Hey, this is media, too, isn’t it?? Sure, and let me throw in a bit of silliness of my own while we are kicking him around…

Ho ho.
And back to something I know more about: the Christmas Crunch was less than usual, predictably enough with the worldwide financial crisis. But we did okay, thank God, and one order was notable in its novelty.
A lovely couple had the idea of Wacky Drawings for their college kids. They told me that the young lady is a psychology major and loves tennis. So:

… with apologies to Psychology Today magazine, of course.
Detail text reads: YOU’RE A SHRINK… HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT?
Below, she is identified as a psychologist and Wimbledon champion, interviewed on the subjects of SECRET AGGRESSION OF THE SERVE and DEVIOUSNESS OF THE BACKHAND and UNDERSPIN: WHAT’S IT MEAN?? Her blouse has a button reading: SHRINKS R US.COM.
Silly but fun.
Her brother, I was told, is majoring in Biochemistry and is a national contender in running track. So here is what resulted from his interests:

The sneakers are a takeoff on the classic Keds look, of course, with his face in the side disc and this text: The BIOMEDS KEDS TRACK TEAM and PATENTED DNA SPRING STEP®.
(It is likely illegal for me to place a legal Registered Trademark symbol on such a frivolous image. Ah well.)
Finally the sole has a bouncing-step device built in and this one has the DNA double-helix spiral as its functioning spring under the heel. Or at least as close as my drawing limits will allow; that is a complex image!
I do realize his major was not Biomed, but that rhymed with Keds, so I took the liberty.
Again, silly but fun.
I do hope the subjects here liked their drawings; their parents have been very nice in every respect. Thanks to them for the OK to post these!
More soon on the blog front. I am getting back into the swing of posting now.
Best,
Dennis

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