Doctor Popular is a game designer, musician, illustrator, zinester, crafster, and DIY super nerd who lives in San Francisco.
I like to keep an eye out for cool shapes during my walks and use them as inspiration for my #SidewalkFriends drawings. It’s like my version of hunting for Pokémon. Inspired by a patch of white and blue paint on the sidewalk across the street from our house. I was wearing my skeleton sweater this day, so [ ] The post #SidewalkFriends: Portrait Of The Artist When No Beer appeared first on Doc Pop s…
I like to keep an eye out for cool shapes during my walks and use them as inspiration for my #SidewalkFriends drawings. It’s like my version of hunting for Pokémon. Some colorful oil on a wet street was the inspiration for today s SidewalkFriends sketch. This one-eyed runner seems to be having too much fun. The post #SidewalkFriends: Cyclopic Runner appeared first on Doc Pop s Weblog .
I m always on the hunt for new music and never use music-rental programs like Spotify/Qobuz, which means I spend most of my time surfing Bandcamp. Lately, I ve noticed a huge increase in band pages that don t actually sell music. Instead, they feature a lengthy album review and a link to an external website where you [ ] The post Bandcamp Has A Spam Problem appeared first on Doc Pop s Weblog .
Apologies in advance for a gross (and kind of dumb) subject. San Francisco has its fair share of oddball characters. One of my favorites is the artist who plants tiny American flags into piles of feces they find along Valencia Street. Are these tiny flags a clever way to draw attention to the copious amount [ ] The post Who s Planting American Flags in Piles of Shit on Valencia Street? appeared…
Chuck Tingle did a reading at the Internet Archive this week, and I had to write about it. Chuck writes erotica, horror, and comedy books with titles like Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Pounded in the Butt by My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly but in Reality Is Just a Natural Part of [ ] The post Chuck Tingle at the Internet Archive in SF appeared first on Doc Pop s Weblog .
Did you know that Comic Sans is heavily based on the lettering of dark, gritty comics like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. Given it s current reputation, I never would have guessed Comic Sans took inspiration back to two of the darkest and most influential comics of the 1980s, so I had to see it [ ] The post How The Watchmen Inspired Comic Sans appeared first on Doc Pop s Weblog .
I ve had the melody to Ian McConnell s Bangladesh floating in my head for weeks, so I decided to pull out my old Game Boy and record a chiptune version of the song: You can download my chiptune versions (including a version closer to the original BPM) on Bandwagon. Huge thanks to Tanner4105 for mastering these. [ ] The post Bangladesh (chiptune cover) appeared first on Doc Pop s Weblog .
I ll be selling art, comics, denim goods, and photo zines at @ape_sf (3386 18th St, San Francisco) this Sunday June 28th from noon till 6. I might even bring some old issues of Hamburger Eyes to sell too. Also vending at this event are: note: the featured image says June 21st, but the correct date [ ] The post Selling comics and crafts at A*PE this Sunday. appeared first on Doc Pop s Weblog .
I recently met up with my old friend Mike Hales to try out a new drawing exercise I call Character Telephone . The goal is for each artist to spend ten minutes drawing a new character, then swapping their pages and redrawing each others character in their own unique style. The timer isn t super important, but [ ] The post Character Telephone, a Drawing Game For Artists appeared first on Doc Pop s…
There s a pretty wild story unfolding about one of the world s most-followed artists, the New York Knicks, and an up-and-coming painter. At the center of this controversy are two Knicks paintings that are far too similar to ignore, so I m going to do my best to document what we know so far. The Knicks Commission [ ] The post The Knicks, the Watercolor Painter, and the World s Most-Popular Artist…