Sunday, June 13, 2010

The Moonlight Roller Boys

Over the past few months my wife and I have begun going to this local rollerskating rink in Burbank know as "The Moonlight Roller Rink" and while I can say roller skating to a bunch of random music with your friends is fun, what clearly makes the night is getting to check out all the local talent polishing up their skating skills. So with every trip to the rink, I'm gonna start chronicling the trips with a few sketches of some of the awesome skaters we've encountered the night before.



"The Ref"
This guy is the police of the roller rink hardwood. He doesn't mess around with making sure people obey moonlight protocol and keep it clean and fun in the rink. His attire includes an xx small ref jersey, extra tight jeans featuring his bulging crotch, two cell phones and a blue tooth head phone devise to keep it hands free on the hardwood. He provided us with the quote of the night which my wife over heard him saying to one of his buddies (no joke):

"People think my job isn't serious, but guess what, I take is very seriously, if there is a dropped sweatshirt or a spilt beverage in the rink, that could be a death on the floor!"



"The Punisher"
Dressed in all black and red in the face and covered in bulging veins, this guy skates with the heat intensity of a thousand hells. He never smiles, never laughs, doesn't enjoy the music, only punishes him self to get better by skating until his soul bleeds and forces him to stop. No quote from this guy, because he doesn't speak, he just skates and creeps everyone out.

More to come following the next trip to the rink...

14 comments:

Sam Gwilym said...

Looking forward to the next batch, already enjoying these illustrations, not to even mention the stories, a lot.

James C. said...

Nate these are great! Not only are the illustrations masterfully hilarious but also the little descriptions.

Keep up the awesomeness dude!

Jeanie W said...

Your artwork always makes me smile. :)

TREVOR Simonsen said...

I love your story telling here. Makes me want to go skating!

XAV said...

The best designs are in the real life! I've done the same with the guys at the gym, there's always a lot of incredibles characters in those kind of places :)

Jason Scheier said...

amazing

Munchanka said...

These two seem like not-so-distant cousins of Hollywood Horner.

Gerald Guerlais said...

I suggest you to do this one :
http://www.pari-roller.com/
next time you visit PAris. Incontrovertible !

Tel Coelho said...

that's GREAT!!!!!!!!!!

Nate said...

Sam - Cool, thanks! I'll post more after the next trip.

James - Thanks dude

Jeanie - Thanks, I'll post more creeps soon!

Trevor - You should go skating, it's a great place to check out some real characters

XAV - Yeah, the gym would be a great place as well.

Jason - Thanks man

Austin - Were gonna try and get horner out there sometime, not sure if he'll go though

Gerald - That would be awesome, my wife and I will be in Paris in December, might have to check it out.

Tel - Thanks

Nate

Phil said...

Nate these are awesome they remind me of the geometery class.

Phil

Phil said...

Nate these are pretty sweet they remind me of geometery class characters

Krishna Chavda said...

I can't wait to see more of these lovely specimens of the roller rink. i especially love the wonderfully, excessively, albeit kinda gross, hairy arms.

maura said...

haha! these are great! fun idea for a project, too.