Fuck medication and self help books. All you need to cure depression is the following video

R.E.M. on Sesame Street performing Furry Happy Monsters.

and as an added bonus:

Richard Pryor on Sesame Street.

After the ADHD disaster that was my last attempt at drawing a portrait (the John Locke that was never finished) I decided to take on one that might be easier. Closer on the face, very little upper body and arms and on smaller paper. This one is 11X14 rather than 14X17. It’s going quite well. Worked on it for about two hours last night while watching the last couple episodes from the first season of The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
So far it’s entirely a 2B mechanical pencil and some paper towel for blending. As you can see, I’m no where near disciplined enough to start on one small piece and work my way around the picture until it’s finished. I go all over the place. I wish I could do that.
Like Pat McMichael does with his drawings
[link]
He focuses on one section and finishes that section and then moves onto the next and then the next and so on until it’s finished. My attention span is way too limited to do that. I tend to flitter all over the picture until hopefully it looks finished at some point.
Hopefully this won’t take much longer to finish. I’m maybe halfway there. Maybe a little farther.
here is the original photo: [link]
This one is challenging in it’s own way because the original photo is fairly small and it isn’t very clear when printed at full size for my reference. But I think I can pull it off.
The subject of this picture of my favorite modern horror film maker Eli Roth, who wrote and directed Cabin Fever and Hostel.

Have I posted this one yet?

It’s a combination of about seven or eight pictures. Can you tell the movie is set in Los Angeles?