kid stuff

More quick sketches. Ball point pen again. Not an attempt at perfection, but an exercise in maintaining the right approach. It's very easy to get sucked into rendering features. Instead, I'm trying to model a solid structure in space. You have to build the frame of the house before you can put up the vinyl siding.
As Sargent said: "If you work on a head for a week without indicating the features you will have learnt something about the modeling of the head."

walkies!

We've got three of these guys in our neighborhood.

back to school

Been reviewing Andrew Loomis lately to get the proportions right on kids heads. Harder than you think, I keep having to add more forehead!

moving mountains

sketch

expectations

Everyone asks me to paint realistically, but sometimes I just like to have fun.

pencil mileage

Draw, draw, draw. Worked in ballpoint pen to force me to get the structure right before putting in the features, since there's no erasing. Sargent (the great master) used to work until he got the eye socket just right, and only then put the eye in "like an egg on a plate".

spark

Having a hard time getting started this morning.

end of summer

I'll miss these guys.

bad cow

Another illustration that never ran. For an article on irradiated beef sold in grocery stores.