I like old comic strips; they’re a favorite source of models for drawing practice. This was a truly obnoxious character from 1900 called Mischievous Willie. He makes Dennis the Menace look well-behaved. At least most of the mischief caused by Dennis seem inadvertent rather that premeditated.
Doodling again….micron, gelly roll & pitt pens with colored pencils.
A while back I found this book Sci-Fi Western, which is a collection of art depicting things like cowboys in outer space, UFOs in the desert, and so on. I love it. It seems perfectly logical to me. Contributors include some artists I’ve only recently discovered, including Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, and the Clayton Brothers. […]
I had a medical checkup a few weeks ago and did a little sketching practice while waiting in the exam room. These are some excerpts from a poster on the anatomy of the ear. I thought the individual parts strongly resembled interesting alien creatures. My favorite new word was “otoliths”. I think they’re ballast for […]