It’s not just my mom who celebrates a February birthday; there’s also this guy! He’s brought me great joy over the years, and yet I couldn’t caricature him for the life of me.

The niece’s toys line up for a class sketch.

I needed to bust out a quick sketch, so I came up with another exercise: Open up a movie, jump to a random frame with my eyes closed, then do a 5-minute gesture drawing of whatever I land on.

I got lucky and ended up with this fun and challenging image of W.C. fields shooting billiards in “The Big Broadcast of 1938.”

Some quick gesture sketches I made while looking out the window of the Coffee Bean this morning. I was especially fascinated by the worker who made several trips with very long boxes perched on his shoulder, and the old guy with a cane who literally turned his left foot 90 degrees as he ambled forward.