I love when I get the opportunity to make someone’s idea come to life, especially when that idea is a character. This guy is a bit of a double challenge. I believe this is the first time I have ever characterized a muskrat before, let alone a clairvoyant one.
When doing a character study, I try to imagine the demeanor of the character. Is he proud and standing tall, or is he shy and withdrawn? Body language speaks volumes.
A bit of color and now, football.
“As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.”
– Khalil Gibran, fromThe Prophet
How neat that we can find someone with common interests and love them for also being different. I had a client who is Catholic and whose husband is Methodist. Every weekend they would go to their seperate churches.
This is a pretty ambitious piece. For starters, it’s bigger than most of my pieces and a lot more detailed. Overall, I like the direction it took.
What is the coolest thing you’ve ever owned? How about what’s the coolest thing you’ve ever touched?
I had a college professor who worked on the restoration of the terracotta army from China in the late seventies. He told this story about repairing an arm on a warrior. He had a piece in his hands and on the back was a perfect thumb print from the artisan who had first constructed the piece over two thousand years prior. He said his thumb fit the print perfectly.
This time, I darkened the outlines a bit more. I think I may adopt this technique as well. I am enjoying my experiments a lot and feel like I am growing as an artist and it feels wonderful.
“Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.”
For some reason, the word morsel sounds really cool to me. The verse has little to do with the image, in fact, it has more to do with the previous post. It’s my friend, Lee’s daily contribution. How it relates to this image is complicated. I call it my train-wreck-of-a-thought syndrome. Okay, the train begins with the word “morsel” from Lee’s post. I was thinking about what a morsel would look like, like “What is a morsel?” At this point, the word doesn’t even look like a word, you know what I mean, kind of like vacuum? Anyhoo, then I thought about the Morsel of the future and how it could revolutionize fast food, kind of like the bonless chicken wing. Now, fast forward to the far, far future where morsels are everywhere and everyone is selling them. That’s what you see here.
So, there you have it. Thank you, Lee. You sparked a fun drawing for me to do.
Ever since I drew The Old Merchant, there’s been a desire to develop this world. Its the world of the dead. The Mexicans celebrate their dead relatives in a festival dating back over 3000 years. What better way to honor them than to talk about them. Stories that endure the test of time – and may even get better with age. There’s a lot of awesome art generated for this festival. Here’s an example.
The second paragraph is usually for the technique I use, or something worth pointing out. This drawing came together Fairly quickly and there’s not really anything of note in it. Just a really fun drawing to do and I hope you enjoy it.
Thank God for the return of football. If you think about sport, besides the side bet, there’s no positive or constructive outcome. So, why do we pay athletes millions for the privelidge of watching them do the very thing they love? I think that’s it.
Love.
We love watching the best athletes in the game compete against one another. We love the bragging rights we have for at least one whole year when our team barely pulls out a victory in the last seconds of the game. We love watching the highlight reel from every single game before we turn in at night. We love the underdog. What a great game and thank God it’s back.
I drew this in honor of my good buddy, Mike Lunsford. He’s a huge Tech fan. He’s always running around his house yelling, “Go Jackets!”. Go Tech, Beat Georgia! Don’t worry buddy, I said it for you.
I am really happy with the texture of the grass. All it is is a bunch of random pencil strokes close together. I was going to get a little more detailed with the fans, but decided it would take away from the main focus, in this case it’s the eyes of the robot catching the ball.