Pirate Map

Having grown up watching Goonies a billion times, who doesn't dream of hunting for treasure?

Crooked Bookcase & Diagonal Desk

A couple of designs for some odd furniture. On the bookcase, it is wider at one end and has shelves that are slanted. The desk has a top that is more narrow at one end, and has a hole cut in the wood with a glass top.

Jenga

                 

I thought it would be cool to try to draw a Jenga game in progress, then decided afterwards that I would make one in Paint on the computer. Here are both of them.

Evil Bacon

A lame little comic that I made

McDowell Bag

I drew my last name on a bag

The Girls in Ambigrams

I just love ambigrams. I think that they are so cool, and an interesting challenge to try designing them. Here I did all the girls' names. Each one is the same upside-down as rightside-up. Isabella, Olivia, and Emily.

Graffiti Inspired Writing

I really like art and drawing, and with my Netflix subscription over the past few months(it's a shame I am gonna cancel it this month when the price goes up by like 60%!), I have watched several documentaries on street art and graffiti. This has inspired me to try my hand at some graffiti style writing. I drew a couple others too, but these two turned out the best. I started my viewing with the movie Exit Through the Gift Shop. It was by far the most interesting of the documentaries I watched. It was more focused on street art, and stencils. The others I watched were Infamy and Bomb It, which were more of different takes on the history of graffiti.




I like how this one the M goes through the hole in the P.



I may try doing some sort of street art inspired stencil next. Maybe something like the amazing work of Banksy.

Sudokubunny

After I completed this sudoku I drew a bunny on it.

Lucky Number 5

 Since my birthday is June 5th, I always have kind of considered 5 to be my lucky number. I have never noticed anything particularly lucky about it, but still it feels lucky to me. I sketched this out with pencil, inked it in with a pen, and then filled all the colors using GIMP.

Sudokucat

Upon completing this sudoku I was inspired to draw a big cat on it. Here it is.

Stars and Triangles

                                             
I drew these out on some Post-It notes. I amazed myself with how straight most of my lines ended up even though I did them freehand.

Cream Soda

Just a quick sketch I made from memory of a couple of cream soda cans. It was lightly drawn with pencil, so it didn't scan very well.

Algebra & Geometry

                              

Ever since I read Dan Brown's Angels & Demons in 2004(?) I have loved ambigrams. Ambigrams are illustrations of words that from a different perspective appear to be the same word or a different word. They can be made to read as a mirror image or as I have done using rotational symmetry. For each of these you can tilt your head 90 degrees left or right and each will read the same. My favorite part of these two ambigrams is the M in geometry. That M just turned out awesomely.

Einstein and the Zombies

A quick Einstein sketch drawn completely from my brain. Didn't even look at a picture to help.


                              
A couple zombies inspired from playing too much Plants Vs. Zombies.



This one I finished up in Gimp (Free and open-source Photoshop replacement).

Drawing on a Placemat

This started as me drawing a couple animals for the girls. Then the girls wanted me to draw portraits of them. The one on the left was supposed to be Isabella but looks like a 14 year old, and the one on the right is Olivia and I think that one turned out pretty good.

New England Drawings

While in New England for a couple weeks of vacation in June, here are a couple sketches I drew of where we went.



Newport, Rhode Island




Wakefield, Massachusetts (Just outside Boston)




Niagara Falls, New York

Graphic Designers

Another original drawing by Kevin.

Slightly Obsessive Driving

In February of 2009, as a mental activity, I decided to take a different route each day of the week when dropping my kids off at my in-laws before I go to work. After a couple weeks I decided to figure out how many routes there actually were between my house (A) and my in-laws house (B). Then I decided to drive each of those routes. To keep it still a mental activity I kept no record of which routes I had taken, but systematically drove each path. In any case where I was not sure that I had driven a route, I drove it, possibly for a second time. It took me 13 months, but at the beginning of the month of April I drove the last possible route that does not involve backtracking (except in the case of roads that curve). The sketch above is not drawn to scale, but does demonstrate all 258 different routes.

An Offer on a House

I made this quick MSPaint drawing that shows the floorplan of a house that we put an offer on. We aren't too optimistic that we will get it, but if we do that would be cool.

Fireman, I mean Fire Fighter

I drew this the other day for my friend to use for a Powerpoint presentation.