Throwback Thursday #3 – The “new” F18 Cougar

 

The “new” F18 Cougar, pencil, 1987

 

In 1987, I was 8 years old and my love of fighter jets was still aflame, no doubt, from the movie Top Gun which had only been out for a few years at this point. My brother and I were learning a lot about different models of fighter jets because of Top Gun and our collections of die-cast toys made by Ertl. So what would be more natural to a little budding artist than to invent his own fighter jet model? We were very familiar with the F14 Tomcat,  the F15 Eagle, the F16 Falcon and several others, but apparently at this point I had not yet known of one of the most popular in the American arsenal: the F18 Hornet. Oh well, maybe the Air Force scrapped the F18 Cougar because it was more expensive than the Hornet? I love the detail in this drawing; note the enemies in my drawings were almost always Nazis!

 

 

Throwback Thursday #2 – Biology Notes Doodles

This is just one of literally thousands of school note sheets I covered in doodles in my school years. This was from a college science class sometime between probably 1999 and 2001. Sometimes the doodles illustrated the notes, other times they had nothing to do with the notes. Many times they were sketches of the the back of the head of the person who sat in front of me in class and a lot of times they were just patterns. Some of my teachers in grade school hated me doodling on my worksheets, some encouraged it. No matter what I was doodling, keeping my pen in constant motion kept me awake and somewhat engaged, contrary to what many teachers thought.

Throwback Thursday #1 – Dad Working on Our House, 1986

 

Dad Working on Our House, pencil, March 1986

 

The first ever Throwback Thursday at Josh Anderson Art Blog comes from March, 1986 when I was 7 years old. In 1984, my dad began building a huge addition to our double-wide manufactured home. The addition was a garage with a huge vaulted ceiling living room above that and a 3rd story loft in the top. This was only the beginning of dad’s almost continual remodeling and adding to that house. When my brother compared our house to the plain, normal split-level homes all around us, we felt like our house was mansion and we were proud of all the work dad did. Our house inspired many future drawings of houses that always had to include bay-windows, several stories, chimneys, decks and privacy fences like our home.