Michael S. Dyer: New Drawings, Getting Organized, and Catching Up

It has been a long, tiring summer so packed with activity that I've let the house fall apart a bit. I'm putting the pieces back together now that the busy levels have gone down somewhat. The house is getting cleaned room by room. Paperwork is being organized. Even my stamp collection is finally getting into its album.

I have a few weeks with little Cub Scout responsibility beyond the norm so I'm taking this time to make sure the pack records are all up to date and setting in place systems so that I can give the Membership Chairman job to someone else.

I've also been invited to teach at the University of Scouting/Program and Training Conference in January. My Wood Badge patrol did an awesome presentation about recruitment and I would love to work with them to expand it and teach it to a different audience. It has also been heavily suggested that I teach a class about using music in Cub Scouts since I'm most often known outside my own pack as the music guy. Not bad for someone who can't play an instrument and can barely carry a tune.

My art is progressing rather well. I've been doing a lot of work with ballpoint pens and am thrilled that things are coming out so well. I started out with that media oh so many years ago and am returning to it.

I've also been participating in a weekly figure drawing workshop at Arts Umbrella in Bothell with live nude models. I think this, more than anything, has propelled my art forward. I've done a lot of artistic nude and a few erotic artist trading cards but drawing from life while surrounded by amazing artists to draw inspiration from has been invaluable. In order to keep them off my blog where kids and the morally outraged can see them I have put all of my NSFW drawings on their own tumblr. Please take a gander if you like. Comments are welcome. http://brassduckstudio.tumblr.com/

Here are some of the other drawings I've been working on.