UPDATED 10.13.2017

Friday the 13th 2017

Jeanna Voorhees

UPDATED 10.09.2017

Daaaamn

this one is coming straight from the heart

a comic boasting of my weakness

UPDATED 10.08.2017

Inktober

maybe

of course I made a video

that is all I am doing now a days

UPDATED 10.01.2017

I made a video about me drawing at

The WEEN show

San Francisco

UPDATED 09.03.2017

Two new videos

on my

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC08OCCoFofxs1fJTVDDNwfw

please subscribe

Art Drop Golden Gate Bridge

Sketching the MI6 Building in London

UPDATED 09.03.2017

a new video

New comic in the comic section

A Dance

UPDATED 08.27.2017

The NBA championship trophey

San Francisco

I am looking at a reflection of myself here

UPDATED 08.23.2017

a new video

narrated by me

UPDATED 08.15.2017

a new comic

UPDATED 08.13.2017

In CA with a head full

UPDATED 08.12.2017

I'm drawing Space Ships

UPDATED 08.11.2017

Judge Dredd

submission for

2000AD

if you wanna read the script

or try drawing a script

click the below link to go to the 2000AD site

http://2000ad.com/submissions/

UPDATED 08.05.2017

Here is a new video

about my travels in

Ireland

UPDATED 07.28.2017

I watched

Kim Jung Gi

draw

This is the second time I've seen him draw

San Francisco

I'm in the Bay Area again

Oakland be like . . .

UPDATED 07.24.2017

Here is a video of me

Kissing the Blarney Stone

and then drawing it

This is the drawing

see

inspired by real life

something I over heard

UPDATED 07.20.2017

Here is the video of my Whale encounters

Updated 06.29.2017

Today I am in San Francisco

Yesterday I saw a whale

After living in Seattle for 4 years

two of those by Alki Beach

I had written off never seeing a whale

This is exactly how it went down

Updated 06.27.2017

I'm uploading video of my Eueropean travels

Updated 06.23.2017

I created a video of me

SKETCHING STONEHENGE

Thanks to Zach Scott Pohl

for the music

www.ZachPohl.com

Updated 06.12.2017

A video of me sketching scenes from

Montmartre paris

Thanks to Zach Scott Pohl

www.ZachPohl.com

for the great music

Updated 05.19.2017 by Boulet

I've sketched so hard that I've already filled up an entire blackbook

say goodbye to BlackBook 42

and say Hello to BlackBook 43

Updated 05.18.2017 by Boulet

LANDED IN LONDON

It is late when I get to the check in point at Stansted airport in London.

At first I think I am going to be cleared, but then the Border Guard squawks his walkie.

I have got a Stop-Check. Someone needs to come relieve me. he says.

Fuck. This again.

He grills me and I provide answers. What is you purpose for visiting London? How long are you staying? How much money do you have? Do you have a job? Have you had trouble with Border Control before?

I provide my printed out itinerary, and he asks to see proof of my departing flights. My phone is dead, so I have to use my laptop.

That is okay- take your time He says, I am still waiting for someone to cover me.

I connect to the free airport wifi, as he hands me this form

He says I bet this looks familiar. I think, maybe, but it has been awhile. I already know what comes next.

By now I have pulled up the proof of flight and all the places I am staying at while visiting London.

After looking at everything he directs me to the holding area.

Now this does looks familiar.

I quickly pull out my sketchbook and begin to draw.

This might be the only thing I get to sketch in London.

It will be a quick drawing.

Several minutes later he comes back.

Wow, you just drew that?! he asks.

That is what I do. I say.

I let him show the others guards. He takes the sketchbook to show them.

One of the girls asks- Did you draw me? Yes.

I look like a man, says the other.

(sorry hon, it is the uniform. It is never flattering).

Then the gentleman who has been grilling me asks his supervisor- Wait, are drawings of the border Control okay?

The Supervisor just silently nods her head.

Back to the business at hand.

He informs me that he has read the last report where I was denied entrance.

Things have not changed.- he says. I am still a freelance artist without a steady income.

So I log back into my laptop and access my online banking.

I also show him the confirm bookings for the hostels.

He goes back up the stairs, behind the black glass. At this point I am thinking FUCK THE BRITISH. I will act proper, but they are going to get a piece of my mind- about how they got the wrong person. I just want to draw your shitty country!

Then he comes back, and says- Okay, gather your things, and meet me at desk 18.

I take my time, shutting down my laptop.

Too long, and I rush over to the desk as a few things fall out of my bag.

Okay- he begins - We are going to LAND you, but I am giving you this stamp that will be a red flag to every time you try to enter the UK.-

I’m going to be landed! Yes!

I ask - Well, may I ask what these concerns are?

Without a family or a typical real job back in the U.S.A they are worried that I will try to start a new life in London…. We will not penalize you for being different. I am going to LAND you.

He stamps the passport, and tells me to go.

I walk past the border check with a smile on my face.

This time I made it!

I walk thru customs where there is no one waiting.

I’m squeaky clean so I was never worried, but when I realize that they never once searched my bag. I think:

Shit, I could have snuck in some of that Eindhoven Hash

LANDED IN LONDON 05/17/2017 10pmish as Lived by Joshua Boulet.

Updated 05.04.2017 by Boulet

I'm in Paris

and I visited

Pere Lachasie Cemetery

where Jim Morrison rests

now check this video I made about

drawing the tombe

Sketch the World

Updated 05.01.2017 by Boulet

Art Drop

La Cite De La Bande Dessinee

The City of Comics

Glorify the ninth art

I'm in France, and finally found an adapter

so here is a long over due upadate

waiting in a train station

in Toulouse France

We are all the same

Here is what I sketched in

Barcelona

I drew this in the rain

La Sagrada Familia

I have video to prove it

on my YouTube Channel

Ran ruins blackblooks

this ink was not waterproof

Trump D Arc

Barcelona

I find a cannabis club

in wonderful sweet sweet Barcelona

and I get high for the first time in over a month

and I write a full review

updated later

Casa Mila

I was tried from a full day of drawing and travel

I messed up the details on this one

before all that

I ride a plane

from Jerez

to Barcelona

The plane is full

I am stuck in the middle

this is nothing to do but draw

So I draw from take off to touch down

Updated 04.25.2017 by Boulet

Art Drop

Rota Spain

I'll be doing one of these for each spot I visit in Europe

Check it out!

Updated 04.23.2017 by Boulet

I walked into the castle,

Castillo de Luna

and wedding music started playing.

Pictures were being snapped as I tried to get out of the way.

No one told me to leave, so I stayed and did this quick

Rota Spain

Someone call the Cute Police. . . . There is about to be an arrest!

UPDATED 04/18/2017

I TRY TO BUY WEED IN A PET STORE

While walking in Rota last night,

I notice a small shop that has a pot poster in the window.

I make a mental note of where this shop is at, and vow to return tomorrow, when they are open.

It takes me awhile to find the store again.

Although I wander around for awhile I would not say I was ever truly lost,

and I realize that I have become comfortable navigating this small beach town.

Finally I see round about with the giant hands- it is directly across from that

Yes! It is open! Wait a minute this is a. . . . a pet store?

I see the poster that I saw last night, so I go in.

It is a very small pet store.

I look around.

Pet stuff.

Pet stuff.

More pet stuff, and then I see it.

In a small standing glass case I see grow products with weed leaves on them. . . and seeds.

There are about five packages each containing cannabis seeds.

They are priced around Euro26.00

I hope.

I hope.

There is a book on top of the display and I thumb thru it

It is a catalog of what seeds are available.

I would buy some, but I do not have the time or a spot to grow a plant

(I will be in France in two weeks.

In a desperate attempt I decide I am going to ask the guy working if he has anything to sell.

Maybe out of his personal stash,

or the secret garden I hope is in the back.

maybe next to the dog food

He is talking to a customer,

and If this is gonna work it has to just be me and him in the store when I ask.

So I leave.

I walk around for about ten minutes, making notes of places I might like to eat at later.

I arrive back at the store but there is someone else inside.

This is a very small store so I know I will have a chance to be by myself but not right now.

I walk around a little more.

This time when I come back there is no one

I go back inside.

Hola! I say

Hola he answers.

Maybe he recognizes me from before

(I am sure it is weird to walk in and out of a place like I did)

he immediately comes over to help.

I try to explain:

My Espanol is un poco, I say.

Meaning very little, but in realty my Spanish is very bad.

He nods.

So in broken Spanish I attempt to ask if he will sell me weed.

I point at the case with the seeds.

I make the smoking a joint gesture with two fingers to my mouth.

Do you have? I ask in english

He looks confused and points at the case

We are not understanding each other

He calls over the Older Gentleman.

My first thought is, No not the old dude!

But the older Gentleman is just as polite.

I explain again that my Spanish is horrible,

and he corrects me on how to properly say that.

It goes in one ear and out the other. I am trying to buy weed here.

I explain, in English, that I am a tourist. It has been weeks since fumar Marijuana

I gesture to the case with the seeds. Plant. Do you have?

The younger Guy says a few things in Spanish, and I say SI..SI... thinking I understand

but he begins to open the case to get me some seeds.

No.

No that is not what I am wanting.

Two months, he says in English.

Meaning in two months I will have the smoke I desire.

But I do not have two months.

I ask now. Do you have now?

OH, now they understand, and answer no.

They look at each other.

The mood is light, so I am not feeling worried.

They go back behind the counter, and I snap the above pictures.

I leave with a smile saying

luego (later),

and they return the polite goodbye.

Damn it.

Updated 04.13.2017 by Boulet

HOLY WEEK day 3

4/12/2017

I am in Rota Spain.

The noisy crowd goes silent

The Procession of Pasos has begun

I begin to sketch

I notice a few people watching me draw.

I am happy to show them.

They compliment me in Spanish, or at least that is what I think is going on.

I smile.

Do you not speak Espanola?, a younger man asks.

un poco, I answer (very little)

In broken English he asks how much for the sketch.

This is the second time someone has asked to buy the sketch while I am drawing Holy Week.

I try to tell him that it is not for sale, and show him the sketchbook with the other drawings.

An older man asks to take a photo. I agree.

These floats or Pasos are considered works of art, and I can see why.

They are giant life like wooden sculptures.

Depicting the Passion of the Christ

There must be about 20/30 people under each float, carrying it on their shoulders.

They do take breaks

As the Pasos is lowered I hear the wood creak and creak,

giving evidence to how heavy these things really are.

Two taps of a cane,

a signal to inside,

and the Pasos is raised in an upward thrust to continue the march.

believers touch it as it walks past

followed by a brass band follows.

I follow the procession, sketching.

I break off to try and get ahead so I can finish my drawing.

As I’m walking down narrow alleys ways I realize I have no idea where I am at.

But I’ll worry about that later.

Besides all I need to do is find the beach, and then I’ll know my way back.

I cut down this alley, and up another one.

I see a large crowd and I am able to finish the above drawing.

Updated 04.11.2017 by Boulet

Updated 04.09.2017 by Boulet

La Semana Santa

Holy Week

Day one

Rota Spain

Updated 04.07.2017 by Boulet

Seville Spain

Sketch Alcazar

A tour group walks past as I'm drawing

photos by Nick Waters

We arrived late, and only have an hour to sketch

We draw to the end

and are eventually escorted out by security

So here are some photos I took of the place

My buddy Nick, and I

in Seville Spain

And then back to Rota

Where a special message awaits you

Updated 04.05.2017 by Boulet

I'm really digging on this Spanish dish

so much that I decided to draw it my third time eating it.

Carrillada Iberica

This half portion of Tapas costs 3,00 Euro

and comes with olives.

and olives

Updated 04.04.2017 by Boulet

Sketch the World

ROTA SPAIN

La buena vida

Rota Library

Graffiti

SKETCH THE WORLD

CADIZ SPAIN

This building has been around since 70 B.C

Sketching Viacrucis

SKETCH THE WORLD-

THE ROCK OF GIBRALTER

Let the Adventure begin!

Updated 03.25.2017 by Boulet

The Moment Before

Updated 03.23.2017 by Boulet

L.C.A. Daze

Good things happens when you visit the L.C.A Starbase

Updated 03.16.2017 by Boulet

New Seattle Weekly Cover

Updated 03.15.2017 by Boulet

I visited NASA

Sketching Mission Control