Jun 13, 2007

I'm no Superman...




Not bad. Judy (Carla) came out a little rough, but Zach and Sarah seem to have me drawing in the same style, and it's a style that I don't hate, which is good. Judy's jaw and cheekbones need to be more square, and her overall line quality needs to be softer. I'll have to redraw her and then try the rest of the gang.

Jun 10, 2007

Jungle name


This lady wanted a jungle theme and it HAD to have a giraffe and a monkey. I'd seen giraffes done in Santa Monica before, so I was able to pull one of those out of my bum.

It's painting monkeys into letters that I still don't like. Someday I'll find an effective way to keep all four limbs plus a tail contained in a letter shape without sacrificing a monkey's personality. Until then, painting one for a guest is nothing more than selling out.

HEEEEEELLLLPP!!!

Back into caricatures, and dyin' for some advice, whether you're spotting one-time mistakes or consistently bad habits. Thanks.

The drawing of this guy reminds me of Borat.













Luiz on break.

















Should she even have a face behind those glasses?
(I do like how I drew her eyes.)














First one.















SIX FLAGS TEXAS
About a month ago I was flown to San Antonio to teach Brush Art at Sea World. I missed my return flight, and so I spent the rest of my day drawing caricatures for Bugs Bunny.

This kid wanted to be riding a skateboard, but his mom said just the color face. Then when they came to pick up, she asked me why he wasn't riding a skateboard. Since I couldn't turn his torso into a kid on a board, I redrew it for them. See how nice I am?













I don't know WHAT is going on here. First of all, his name's not really Anthony. Second, the face sucks. Third, I started drawing a Taz body, but then accidentally gave him a Road Runner background, so I added Wile E. Coyote trying to trap him with Nerd Seed. THEN, I decided since he wasn't Taz anymore, that I'd just color him with flesh tone, and there you have it: a jacked-up, poorly-drawn caricature of an unidentified man running naked through Arizona.