Category Archives: Index Card Series

Portrait of the Artist as Homestar Runner

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Jesse Conlang

I bought pencil crayons! Here’s a very, very hasty self portrait. I feel like a portrait of me as strongbad would be fundamentally unsatisfying. I’ve got a fairly big thing in the works, and pencil crayons are involved. Stay tuned, … Continue reading →

Posted in Index Card Series, stalling for time | Tagged autorretrato, homestar, homestar runner, pencil crayons, self portrait, selfie, strongbad | Leave a comment

Is there a word for simultaneous disdain and admiration?

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Jesse Conlang

I think I have that for steampunks. Here is the coal powered laptop I’m running. It’s actually not much of an exaggeration. I have a ten year old macbook pro, and it runs hot enough that there might actually be a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Drawing, Index Card Series | Tagged black and white, coal, drawing, Laptop, pen and pencil, request, self-promotion, steam, steam powered, steampunk, steampunk computer, technology | 1 Comment

Kahkakiw Okisêpânêhkwêwin (The Raven’s Breakfast)

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Jesse Conlang

So, at my old job there was a huge raven that lived in the back alley by the shop. You would see it eating pigeons, and occasionally you could hear it singing and whistling to itself in that doddering old … Continue reading →

Posted in Drawing, Index Card Series | Tagged b&w, bird, caffeine, coffee, drawing, edmonton, paper cup, pen and pencil, pigeon, raven, tim hortons | Leave a comment

Armaments: part 2

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Jesse Conlang

More to come! here’s part 1

Posted in Armaments Series, Index Card Series | Tagged armaments, babushka, battleaxe, berzerker, black and white, old lady, pencil drawing, seniors, weaponry | Leave a comment

Faith

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Jesse Conlang

Based on a true story.

Posted in Drawing, Index Card Series, Nobody likes drawing feet | Tagged black and whyte, dog, door, drawing, nobody likes drawing feet., step, waiting | Leave a comment

The Date

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jesse Conlang

There’s a mismatch here. If you’re curious, I’m back in school, so the updates may not flow quite so freely as I ration out content created during the summer.

Posted in Drawing, Index Card Series | Tagged black and white, date, drawing, incompatible, nature, outdoors, Pencil, scraggly birch trees | Leave a comment

You’d be disappointed too

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Jesse Conlang

This is was drawn with absolutely zero research or reference. The year is probably wrong and the flag is backwards and wouldn’t have a no-atmosphere-on-the-moon rod to keep it up. However, they did train astronauts in the Sudbury area during … Continue reading →

Posted in Drawing, Index Card Series, Travel | Tagged acid rain, astronaut, canadian shield, desolation, disappointment, moon, nasa, northern ontario, space, sudbury, that's no moon | Leave a comment

Rocking Out

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jesse Conlang

inspired by seeing Beirut live. Not a particularly close portrait, though.

Posted in Drawing, Index Card Series, Music | Tagged beirut, rocking out, sousaphone | Leave a comment

Armaments: part 1

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Jesse Conlang

I hope you think this is as awesome as I think it is. More to come!

Posted in Armaments Series, Drawing, Index Card Series, Uncategorized | Tagged drawing, old ladies, pencil and ink, spears, weaponry, weapons | Leave a comment

Things Yet To Come

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Jesse Conlang

Three or four upcoming index cards are on preview here. See the figure in the upper left? I encourage you to make wild guesses about what it might be, but I seriously doubt you’ll get it.