Its now or never

Its now or never. This should have been posted about two years ago but it just get pushed back again and again, so I give up. I know its not Christmas anymore but I assure you they're really not that Christmassy but kind of. The following images were sort of Christmas/doodle gifts for a friend that I drew on an envelope. They're not highly developed but they do have some nice shading and are great drawings to see how I go though the process of drawing characters, loosely at least. Normally I like to paint these up or other est but as is are still really nice to look at. Besides I was going for fun and spontaneity. BTW she really enjoyed the drawings too. 😊
Because these are loose character drawings in the raw they will not be featured in my personal site as is,  but I am contemplating on adding a link to them in my personal site in the future.  
In the mean time enjoy. 

 Drooling happy dog drawing 2017

 Drawn with ordinary black pen and loosely coloured with coloured pencil. Drawings on a envelope as a gift or Christmas greeting for a friend. 

 A little sleeping bear in a Santa cap. 2017

Drawn with ordinary black pen and loosely coloured with coloured pencil. Drawings on a envelope as a gift or Christmas greeting for a friend.
 

 Two goofy and curious penguins take a peak.  2017

 Drawn with ordinary black pen and loosely coloured with coloured pencil. Drawings on a envelope as a gift or Christmas greeting for a friend.

Neon Lights Barber Shop Set 4

Now out Neon lights Barber Shop set 4. Now with beards. 😁

The unusual home made light box

Darn I think I deleted the original copies of my home fries pics before I could save them to permanent storage. Oh well. No biggy. Technically still have a copy in one of my bloggs for future projects of something. 

Anyways as promised here are pics of my unusual home made light box. (finally shown after several years) Made with lots of recycled stuff such as cardboard and styrofoam sandwiched together with home made white glue. Recipe found here. Then covered or wallpapered with more recycled paper that I saved long ago from my school days. In those days we used lots and lots of paper. We also did a lot of useless homework too, hence the crazy amount of paper. Then I sealed it with some shellac I guess, then painted it all up. I chose red and covered it with some goofy fun labels to make it all sciency but spoofy Otherwise I wouldn't have cared so long as it did its job. Earlier I had purchased a string of nearly pure white Christmas lights LED's of course. Since I couldn't find those string tube lights I used those and secured them on to a removable platform just in case they ever needed to removed. I already had a nice acrylic piece of plastic on hand to use as a surface for things that require tracing.  
Why didn't I just purchase one at the store? Because I already had plenty of materials and plus its environmentally sound. Plus those light box/tables you purchase at the store cost more then they should. Especially around here. So its a win, win, win situation. 

 A fly got into the shot. 🔺

  Close up of the fly. 🔺

 Side shot. 🔺

 Front shot. 🔺

The other side shot. 🔺

What it looks like when plugged in with the plastic cover on. 🔺

Again lit up. 🔺

 What it looks like when not plugged in with cover on. Paper is placed on top for tracing when plugged in. Its easy to see the object underneath for tracing.🔺

  What it looks like when not plugged in another angle and without cover. 🔺

Just another shot of it. 🔺

 What it looks like on my work surface. Although because its pretty tall, I have to use it on the floor. I could not make it any less shorter to accommodate because of the lights I used. 🔺

Neon Lights Barber Shop Set 3

New year with some almost new stuff. Actually finished these months ago. None the less another lovely and handy set of barber shop related signage in the style of my neon lights series. 
Also viewable on my personal web site soon.  😊