Well, at least a small sample of the artwork I've produced this year.
If you follow my blog regularly, or we're connected via a social network or two, you may have seen some of these. But I thought it'd be nice to share the variety of work I did, and the various reasons for creating them.
Some of these are commissions, either sketch cards or larger pieces. There are several fliers I created this past year for various events, as well as a random sample of sketches and doodles. The rest were created for other purposes, sometimes on a whim, sometimes for publication or an art show.
Regardless the reason, what I see in the work is a desire to express something, an idea or a memory or a feeling....
I'm already looking ahead and trying to coordinate the various print projects I want to produce, balancing that with my increased teaching schedule and other events on the horizon for 2013.
Thanks for following along with me this past year. To those of you who supported through purchasing my work, I very much appreciate that. And to my fellow artists, your enthusiasm, encouragement and inspiration has been a tremendous help, thanks!
Here's a sketch I did last week. Drawn with a plain old Bic pen.
I drew this after listening to a live podcast, The Mini Comics Dumptruck. The subject matter are from the 1970s SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN tv series. Drawing on the left is from a screen capture of the Bionic Bigfoot, played by wrestling legend Andre the Giant. The sketch on the right is the Robot (or Maskatron, as the action figure was called). The Robot was drawn with no reference.
Both characters were recently drawn by a fellow artist, Mark Rudolph, so I was inspired to take my own crack at drawing them. It's interesting for me to see the difference in a drawing I've done from looking at a reference image vs. one that I created only by my memory of the character. (Helps being such a geek for this stuff!)
Drawing with a ballpoint point offers a different experience, and final result, versus drawing with a marker, pencil or ink & brush. The way the pen point literally rolls over the surface of the paper is unique to the construction of the pen. I really like the idea that a simple pen and sheet of paper allows you to create some art. Total price about, I don't know, .65¢ ??
