What's Arabic for "Flounder"?

Does anyone else think that Moqtada Sadr looks a little like Stephen Furst?

A guy with a hat

A vintage 1998 copy of O’Reilly’s Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference isn’t very definitive anymore, but it’s pretty handy for using as a weight to press my sketchbook down flat against the scanner glass.

This is just noodling around with Inktense pencils and a water brush. I just keep liking the Inktense pencils more and more. That’s “ink black” in the foreground, and “charcoal grey” in the back. The gray has a pretty strong greenish cast to it that makes me think of rainy city days drawn by Eisner. I’ve got a thing for moody, complex colors (after visiting Seattle I wanted to move there just for the local palette), and the Inktense are good for those, since they’re waterproof when dry, so you can layer ’em over each other without worrying about later layers disturbing earlier. I haven’t been doing that much, but clearly it’s time to start.

And I really like how the hat looks.