Lunchtime Drawings: The Fanatical Doodler Series #3

This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting some of the drawings or doodlings (many of which are a series) that give you a peek into just how addicted to pen and pencil I am!

Lunchtime Drawings

As much as I love to draw, somehow I go through phases where I am not getting the opportunity or just not making time to draw. A lot of people don’t realize that even talented or career artists can atrophy in their abilities if they don’t keep practicing! I realized this at one point in 2012 when trying to draw something I should have been able to do with my eyes closed and having it turn out bad. I was taken by surprise that life just didn’t seem to be offering the hours of doodle time that I was used to.

So I decided, I need to MAKE time to keep my drawing muscles in shape! The only place my schedule offered any free time was during lunch. So that was that! I decided I’d spend about 15 minutes of my lunch drawing something -anything- in my sketchbook. When I started, someone was supplying a subscription to Time Magazine to our staff kitchen and this offered endless photo from which to draw. When that source ran out I had another almost endless source: The quarterly magazines sent to me by Compassion International, World Vision and Gospel for Asia. I had been collecting them in a stack in the garage as reference photo material for painting for years. Hey, I didn’t have internet or a smart phone for the longest time!

I continued this series through 2013. What you need to know about these is that they are fine liner drawings. I never did a pre-sketch in pencil to make sure proportions/etc. were right. I just started with a freehand, ink line, and once you lay down the black, you can’t go back. So this explains the crude line and sometimes awful proportions of many of the drawings. Anyway, it was fun and I think they improved over time. Without further ado, here they are:

August 2012

1-25-13

Tarzan & Jane, August 2012

August 2012

August 2012

August 2012

Sept. 2012

Tilda Swinton, 1-18-13

Rango, 1-28-13

The dog from the Artist, 2-1-13

Florence from Florence and the Machine, 2-4-13

Batman, 2-6-13

2-8-13

2-15-13

2-18-13 The nose got away from me on this one.

Dalmation, 2-19-13

Me in Japan, 2-22-13

2-25-13

3-4-13

3-6-13

3-11-13

3-12-13

3-13-13

3-13-13

3-20-13

3-25-13

Bee, 3-26-13

3-29-13

4-22-13

4-22-13

4-24-13

Me, 4-26-13

4-26-13

Abe Lincoln, 4-29-13

4-30-13

5-1-13

5-3-13

5-6-13

5-8-13

5-12-13

5-15-13

5-17-13

5-22-13

6-15-13

6-7-13

6-10-13

6-11-13

6-12-13

6-14-13

6-19-13

6-21-13

6-24-13

6-26-13

6-28-13

7-1-13

7-3-13

7-5-13

7-8-13

7-9-13

7-10-13

7-24-13

7-29-13

7-31-13

8-2-13

8-5-13

8-6,7,8-13

8-9-13

8-12-13

8-13-13

8-14-13

8-16-13

8-17-12

8-19-13

8-21-12

9-3-13

9-4-13

9-6-13

9-9&10-13

9-10&11-12

9-13-13

9-18-12

9-19-12

9-25-12

9-26-12

9-27-13

9-28-12

9-30-13

10-1-12

10-1-13

10-2-12

10-2-13

10-3-12

10-4-12

10-10-12

10-15-12

10-17-12

10-19-12

10-22-12 Kate Middleton

10-24-12

10-29-12

10-30-12 Paul Ryan

11-5-12

10-16-12

11-21-12

12-7-12 Ron Paul

12-7-12 Peter Falk

12-11-12

12-12-12

12-14-12

6-20-12 Rick Kenagy & a Haitian girl.

9-12-12

August 2012

September 2012

9-26-12

August 2012

8-20-12 Andy Griffith

9-12-12

May 2012 President Obama

August 2012

4-3-13 Lincoln

4-5-13

4-9-13

4-10-13

4-12-13 Annnd the teeth got away from me on this one.

4-15-13

4-17-13

4-19-13

8-27-12

8-28-12

9-11-12

9-12-12

10-12-12

11-7-12

August 2012

9-17-12

“What’s Going On?”: The Fanatical Doodler Series #2

This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting some of the drawings or doodlings (many of which are a series) that give you a peek into just how addicted to pen and pencil I am!

The “What’s Going On” Drawings

Probably sometime in the late 80’s my brother and I had this idea to draw a scene, usually centered around a house, packed with as much activity as we could possibly fit into the landscape. The first of these were drawn years before we ever heard of “Where’s Waldo?”. We would sit drawing on these for hours over the course of several days, laughing at each other and sharing ideas. We really enjoyed the Halloween theme in most of them. We did like two or three of them each year through the early 90’s and then they became less frequent after 1995. I wanted to revive the series by doing one on 2001, but it wasn’t until 2005 before I’d do another – this one was grand daddy of them all and done on 11″x14″ paper (all previous ones were only 8 1/2″x11″ paper).

In 2007, after going on a Homes of Hope house building mission trip with my church, I decided to do one themed after that trip. To date, I haven’t drawn one since, but this won’t be the last, my friends! Stay tuned for more!

This is, I think, the first one I ever drew although it’s not dated.

Also not dated, I think I determined this one to be the 2nd because of a slightly better drawing style.

I’m calling this number 3 though it is not dated.

The first one with a date: June 30, 1992

July 1, 1992

The first themed “What’s Going On?” drawing: Halloween! October 27, 1993

As you can see this was my writing folder. In 7th grade we kept all of our hand-written stories in these manila folders and over the course of the semester I covered mine in doodles. I finished on March 3, 1994. (Notice Martin Hanford drawing the scene)

This one was either Veterans or Memorial Day themed. 1994

Returning to the Halloween theme. October 17, 1994

Halloween again. October 28, 1995

The first “What’s Going On?” drawing in 6 years. May 21, 2001

I finally worked up another one 4 years later in 2005. This one was the biggest (11×14) and most packed to date.

Impressions of Ensenada. To date, this is the last one I did in 2007. It was inspired by a Mexico Mission trip I went on that year. Though it is poor quality, I made a video of this one being drawn: https://youtu.be/Zb4buxrt5Ek

Addendum!

I just finished up a new one!! Wow, it’s been 12 years since I drew one of these, I can’t believe it! This one is very special as it was created as a gift for Chris and Jeri Menzies. Jeri is the Children’s Pastor at my church and was my wife’s boss for a year. During that time her and my wife became very close friends and Jeri has been like a mom to Shelly. Jeri has also baby-sat our our kids many-a-time giving us breaks so we can go on dates. Her husband Chris volunteers on Sundays in the children’s ministry. Chris is an ex-marine and ex-cop who has owned and operated an auto-shop for a long time (I want to say 20 years?) Chris has saved my family hundreds and even thousands of dollars by doing favors and fixing our cars over the years. Chris and Jeri have helped us financially in other HUGE ways including giving extremely generously to support our adoption. I started this drawing as a way to say thank you to Chris back in summer of 2018 and just havn’t been able to finish it until October of 2019 and it just happens it is the week after Chris retired and sold his shop. Most of all Chris and Jeri have just been great friends and we love them!

What’s Going On? for Chris & Jeri Menzies, ink, 11×14, 7-22-18 to 10-1-19. The center piece is a ’72 Gremlin, Chris’ dream car. In the sky is an H46 Chinhook which Chris piloted in Vietnam.

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The Enormous Book O’ Aliens: The Fanatical Doodler Series #1

This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting some of the drawings or doodlings (many of which are a series) that give you a peek into just how addicted to pen and pencil I am!

The Enormous Book O’ Aliens

Although most of this collection isn’t dated I think it began in 1994. It was while on a trip to visit relatives in Georgia and Alabama. If I remember right, my Granny, knowing my love of drawing, gave my brother and I each a ream of notebook paper to use during our stay. I must have gotten the idea right away because the format remained the same throughout, but I decided to draw about 3 made-up aliens on each side of every single sheet in the pack. I’m not sure how many sheets were done by the end of our stay, but I did finish the entire ream within a few months. I scanned the entire 3-ring binder (including all the doodling on the covers). The book includes other alien drawings in addition to that entire ream of notebook paper. Grab a cup of coffee, get comfortable and enjoy!

Enormous Book O’ Aliens

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#inktober2016

“Every October, artists all over the world take on the InkTober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month.” -Jake Parker @ inktober.com

This is the first year I have taken the InkTober challenge. Each day artists post their drawings to Instagram when finished (& from there to Twitter &/or Facebook) with the hashtag #inktober, #inktober2016 and then a hashtag of that day’s prompt word. It was extremely hard to squeeze an entire drawing into one day, but I am happy to say I completed all 31 days this year! Here are my drawings (most with the pre-sketch included)

Day 1, October 1st, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Fast”.

From what I have seen of Usain Bolt in the Olympics, he seems like a humble guy and, being the current fastest man in the world, he is the perfect representation of “Fast”. I added the subtle hint of cheetah spots on his back along with a lightning bolt from his back and fire from his shoes.

Presketch of Usain Bolt

Final inked with India Ink and Uniball Fine. #fast

Day 2, October 2nd, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Noisy”.

I challenged myself each day to to look at only that day’s word and so I would need to think of the drawing that day. In addition to that challenge was to think of something fun to draw, find reference photos, do the pre-sketch and get it all inked. Some days I had more time, as with this one which is of my 2003 Kawasaki Vulcan Meanstreak. I wanted to emphasize its Cobra Straight pipes for “Noisy”, although “Loud” is more appropriate.

2003 Kawasaki Vulcan Meanstreak with Cobra Straight Pipes. Inked with Prisma Color 08 and “C”. #noisy

Day 3, October 3rd, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Collect”.

Most days, to stir up my brainstorming, I would Google search the day’s word. I tried to put a unique twist on each day’s prompt, but being constrained by time I sometimes settled for something kind of obvious. I chose a squirrel collecting nuts.

Final inked with my trusty Uniball Fine. #collect

Day 4, October 4, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Hungry”.

This drawing turned out to have the most impact of any of my InkTober drawings. I decided to use this day’s word for a purpose. I Google searched “Starving Child”. I’ve seen poverty first hand in 3rd world countries and I sponsor a Compassion child in Haiti; still a simple image search like this had the power to wreck me. I fought back tears as I saw pictures of emaciated children (this kind of thing impacts me twice as much now that I have my own child). It made me want to stop everything I was doing and find out how to feed these starving children in the world. I started the drawing with hope that I could inspire others the same way. It worked with at least one friend who saw my post on Facebook. She bought the drawing, telling me it made her cry and she paid twice what I asked for it.

Presketch of the emaciated Ethiopian child.

Final, inked with my Uniball Fine. #hungry

Day 5, October 5, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Sad”.

Each day I vacillated between doing a profound  or a light-hearted interpretation of the word. “Sad” could easily have been a grave sort of drawing, but I decided to do this sad puppy.

Final inked with my Uniball Fine, larger areas covered with Sharpie. #sad

Day 6, October 6, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Hidden”.

Noticing my drawings up to this point were pretty straight-forward, I wanted to start pushing my imagination. I took this day’s word to do my own sort of rendering of the “castle in the sky” idea which seems to have originated in Gulliver’s Travels with Laputa and more recently popularized by Studio Ghibli and Hyao Myazaki’s “Castle in the Shy”(1986).

Presketch and beginning ink.

Final inked with my Uniball Fine, some of the larger areas covered with Sharpie. #hidden

Day 7, October 7, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Lost”.

A lot of days, while trying to come up with some clever interpretation, I would watch the time slip through my hands and just have to settle on something. I felt like this one was kind of a silly take on the word, but I just had to start drawing. Its a bag of marbles…get it? Ha ha.

Final inked with my Uniball Fine. #lost

Day 8, October 8, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Rock”.

Scanning Google images of “rock” I saw an engagement ring and decided it would be fun to do a drawing of my wife showing off her engagement ring. A couple of “InkTober” specific challenges I want to note here: One is because of the pressure of getting the sketch done in one day (technically inside of one hour or less) I made mistakes that I didn’t catch until the drawing was done. Usually I would take breaks on such a drawing and when coming back after a day or so, problems in the pre-sketches present themselves. Another is that, these are, by nature, ink sketches which makes the lines all but permanent.  On this particular sketch, when I pulled the pen around to define my bald cranium, the arc got out of hand giving me a more globular head. With more time, I would have corrected this. Also, with ink, mid-tones prove to be exceptionally difficult. You can do a wash by watering the ink down like a watercolor, or use cross hatching. Cross hatching is less effective the smaller the drawing is.

Pre-sketch of Josh & Shelly’s engagement.

Before erasing pencil lines.

Final sketch inked with uniball fine, Prisma Color 08 and India Ink. #rock

Day 9, October 9, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Broken”.

In October of 2008, the word broken was forever primarily associated with breaking my neck one quiet Sunday afternoon. (I blogged the full story on MySpace & re-posted it on my WordPress blog here) I decided one of my X Rays was the best depiction of the aftermath and tackled it with ink. In case you didn’t know, trying to draw an X Ray with just black ink is really hard. I ended up watering down my India Ink like watercolor to achieve the multitude of mid-tones I needed.

Inked with Uniball Fine and India Ink. #broken

Day 10, October 10, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Jump”.

One of the most exciting things about art, to me, is bringing something new into the world. I place a high value on originality. While it can help improve drawing skill to simply draw what I see, I would rather add some flair, “cartoonerize”, or stylize a drawing. So when I decided to try a cliche concept, the cow jumping over the moon, you won’t see me simply drawing someone else’s illustration. My process is to look up reference photos, combine them and then add my own style. I was able to find a picture of a cow jumping (some girl somewhere taught her cow to jump like a horse). I use the reference photo to build the basic structure of the cow and then caricature and exaggerate body parts to make it a cartoon cow. This one was a lot of fun.

Rough pencil sketch.

Finalized with the Uniball Fine. #jump

Day 11, October 11, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Transport”.

Sometimes I immediately had a mental picture appear when I read the day’s word. For Transport, I first imagined a semi carrying some giant dragon or fantasy beast. I can’t remember exactly what changed my mind to make it a UFO, but again, I wanted the opportunity to bring something imagined into the picture.

Presketch.

Outlines inked.

Final inked with Uniball Fine. #transport

Day 12, October 12, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Worried”.

I’m fairly sure the majority of Americans this year, regardless of who we actually voted for, were worried about who might win and are worried about who did win the presidential election. I have some pretty strong feelings about political issues, but I really hate arguing about them. So I did an illustration I feel like we mostly all agree on.

Presketch.

Final before eraasing the pencil.

Final inked in Uniball Fine. #worried

Day 13, October 13, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Scared”.

I’ve always loved fall and most parts of Halloween. For some reason I like to be scared and enjoy scary movies (to an extent – I really don’t like the gorey type) Even when I was a kid I loved drawing jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, skeletons and haunted houses. I figured a black cat in a graveyard goes good with the 13th and this time of year.

Presketch plus the inked night sky using a brush and Higgins ink.

Final inked with Uniball Fine, sharpie, and Higgins ink. #scared

Day 14, October 14, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Tree”.

Trees are harder to draw than one might think. If you don’t use a reference photo and try to actually draw a lot of the branches you see (its nearly impossible to draw them all), it is evident in the final drawing. I was pretty excited to draw a gnarly old tree and put a spooky face on it Lord of the Rings “Treebeard” style. However, feeling confined by my 9.5″x6″ sketchbook, I was a little disappointed in the final –  mainly because I had to run most of the branches off the page.

Final inked in Uniball Fine and Sharpie. #tree

Day 15, October 15, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Relax”.

I told my wife I was searching my brain for ideas to illustrate “relax” and she said “How about one of the hundreds pictures we have of our baby sleeping”. I thought that’d be a great idea and decided to put baby Jedidiah in a fantasy slumber land; floating on a cloud in the night sky, piloted by one of the sheep you count to fall asleep. I had fun with the cartoon moon but was a little disappointed in the way the baby came out: it doesn’t look like him (my wife and I are probably the only ones who would even notice that).

Day 16, October 16, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Wet”.

Drawing something to be wet is a real challenge. After thinking for way too long, I just decided to use the idiom “Wet Your Whistle” which brought a mental image of a cowboy having a drink in a saloon and for some reason it was Sam Elliot in my mind. What’s crazy is that I actually found this image of him having a beer, as a cowboy. I wasn’t really out to draw Sam Elliot per se, so I was going to sort of caricaturize him. In the end, it really turned out being more of just an illustration of him.

Presketch.

Final inked with Prisma Color Brush Pen. #wet

Day 17, October 17, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Battle”.

A couple of years ago I discovered the the production team of composers known as Two Steps from Hell. Many times I listen to “SkyWorld” and “The Classics Vol. 1” while running and my imagination goes wild. I think I’ve written a couple of novels while on my runs and have imagined all of these epic battle scenes to the music. I sort of used that train of thought to come up with this sketch. This is the first Inktober sketch I did without using any reference photo- just pure imagination. The war vehicle is loosely based on the many similar drawings I used to do as a kid.

Presketch.

Final inked in Uniball Fine and Sharpie. #battle

Day 18, October 18, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Escape”.

I decided the best direction to take this word is with the “escape” you get when you read a good book. I wanted a kid reading a book and in his thought balloon you could see his imagination going wild. First I googled “kid reading a book” and then did cartoon version of the image I picked. I wanted his imagination to show a fantasy scene from the book he was reading and rather than make up the whole scene (there wasn’t time) I tried to quickly illustrate a scene from the last fantasy I read: Phantastes by George Macdonald. This was a part where the main character is walking through a fantasy forest and comes upon all kinds of forest trolls hiding in flowers and through the woods. The shack and the castle are from other parts of the story. Lastly, I wanted to incorporate a dirigible which is not any part of Phantastes, so I just added that part. These InkTober sketches have to be quick and so I’m never sure about how much I will get done. I was very happy with how this turned out and I surprised myself  at how much detail I was able to get into it.

Presketch.

Final inked in Uniball Fine and Sharpie. #escape

Day 19, October 19, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Flight”.

I challenged myself to only look at the day’s word the day of that sketch. So I wouldn’t allow myself to use any of the previous days’ content upon learning what I was to draw that day. For instance, this day I kind of wanted to draw a dirigible, however, I had one in the day before’s sketch. So, much like the cow jumping over the moon, I decided to illustrate the old adage “When pigs fly”. I Google image searched pig and bird in flight, combined the image and cartoonerized it.

Presketch

Final inked with the Uniball fine. #flight

Day 20, October 20, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Squeeze”.

Google searching “squeeze” turned up an awful lot of photos of a lemon being squeezed. A lot of days, in addition to a Google search, I would search the day’s hashtag on Instagram to see what other InkTober participants were doing for that word. I usually did this so that I could try and draw something different than everyone else. But sometimes this is what gave me my idea. For squeeze, someone had drawn a couple which made me think of “Main Squeeze”. My Main Squeeze is my wife Shelly. Of thousands of pictures of each other I had to use one I could find quickly and online (I was at work and therefore didn’t have access to all of our pictures at home) The picture I chose is one of my favorites from our wedding day. Just as I had done with our engagement sketch on day 8, I inked my own head waaaaay too big. I didn’t have time to fix it for my InkTober sketch, but I did go back later & white out the line of my head and redraw it where I meant it to be (maybe you can slightly see the pencil sketch in this picture). I think my drawing of Shelly turned out great!

Day 21, October 21, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Big”.

One of my favorite techniques in art is juxtaposition, especially in a surreal sort of way. What a more fun way to do this than draw something typically very small as if it were impossibly large? How about a Godzilla-sized mouse in city-scape?

Presketch.

Final inked in Uniball Fine. #big

Day 22, October 22, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Little”.

The littlest thing in my life right now is my 4 month (then 3 month) old son. As I mentioned on day 15, I wasn’t totally happy with how my drawing of him turned out. So I decided to try again. I drew from a recent, uber cute picture of him from the pumpkin patch just to show scale. Also, pumpkins are just so “October”.  I’m a little more happy about how this one turn out, although some important nuances in his character didn’t quite come through due to the scale of the small size drawing to the pen I used. Also, mid-tones are really difficult to do at this small size as cross-hatching is too heavy.

Presketch.

Final inked in Uniball Fine. #Little

Day 23, October 23, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Slow”.

The three animals you think of when the word slow is mentioned all hit me at once. Instead of picking one I decided to do a funny cartoon of the all three together. After it was too late, I wondered why I drew the snail first since that required him to be big enough for the turtle and the sloth. I was very happy with how this turned out. Like some of my other InkTober sketches, I think this single image could inspire a story (or at least a children’s book).

Presketch.

Inked with Prisma Color brush pen. #slow

Day 24, October 24, 2016. The day’s prompt was “One Dozen”.

Eggs is all I could think of, even though you could just draw 12 of anything. I searched and searched and wracked my brain and finally decided to do a scene from the “Dirty Dozen”. Hmm, I will have to watch it sometime.

Presketch.

Final inked with Uniball Fine. #Onedozen

Day 25, October 25, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Tired”.

My poor wife is the epitome of tired right now. Our little infant, Jedidiah, has been a colicky and needy preemie. Shelly already had sleep apnea pretty bad, and now with a baby that feeds sometimes up to every 2 hours, she never gets a break! I actually teared up while drawing this because I based it off of a real photo of her trying, once again, to rock him to sleep and dozing off herself. I can’t even explain how much I admire her for the incredible amount of love she has poured into our baby, especially when she’s almost deliriously tired. I wanted to do a Guntra Graudins  style caricature of Shelly, but it turned out not really looking like her at all.

Presketch

Outlines inked with Uniball Fine.

Final with sculpted lines and cross-hatching. #tired

Day 26, October 26, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Box”.

I thought of the phrase “Think Outside the Box” and as a cartoonist, this i where my mind inevitably goes.

Presketch.

Final inked with Uniball Fine. #box

Day 27, October 27, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Creepy”.

As I mentioned on day 13, I’m intrigued by all things spooky and creepy. I think my favorite of all things scary is the “Haunted House”. Not only do I just love Victorian style houses, but I am just so drawn to abandoned places or the chill of a supposedly haunted house.

Presketch.

Final inked with Uniball Fine and brushed with Higgins ink. #creepy

Day 28, October 28, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Burn”.

Most days I was in a mad rush to brainstorm the day’s image, look up reference photos, do a rough sketch and finally ink the drawing. On week days I would try and cram this into my lunch hour and some days I was more busy with work than usual and so I would be even more crunched for time. This day was one of those and its too bad, because I think this day’s subject is the most important one I did all month. It’s also very difficult to draw flames using only black ink without stylizing them.

I chose to draw the burning bush from which God spoke to Moses in Exodus 3:14. This is probably my favorite phrase spoken by God in the Bible because it is so pithy, absolute and superior. Moses asks God “Who shall I tell [the Israelites] sen me?” and God answers “Say to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.” I think the statement is so powerful because it not only speaks to God’s omnipotence, but to his eternity. I think we commonly misunderstand the word eternal to mean “a really really long time from here on out”, but the definition is “existing forever; without end or beginning.” God created time and therefore He is outside of it. He has no beginning or end, is just is.

Day 29, October 29, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Surprise”.

I took this day’s word as a chance to draw that fantasy beast I was sort of thinking about for day 11. The idea began when I was winterizing my sprinklers that day and trying to think of what to draw. I was thinking about how hard it is to know how much water is potentially left in the pipes after blowing them out and what other “surprises” might be in there. Add a healthy dose of imagination and you have a farmer pulling what he thinks to be a weed and it turns out to be the tail of giant subterranean monster.

Presketch.

Final inked with Prisma Color brush pen. #surprise

Day 30, October 30, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Wreck”.

Like the word broken (day 9), the word wreck will forever be associated with my worst car wreck that actually took place earlier that same year. (I blogged the full story that year here) I was at a dead-stop on the shoulder of Interstate 70 when I was rear-ended by a guy who fell asleep at the wheel. It crushed my Honda Passport into a Suzuki Sidekick.

Presketch.

Final inked in Uniball Fine and India ink. #wreck

Day 31, October 31, 2016. The day’s prompt was “Friend”.

One final offering for InkTober 2016 and so it needed to be a good one. Once again I employed the method of inserting imagination into a real situation: a boy hanging out with his imaginary friend. I also love the innocence of children’s type illustrations and trying to bring that world to life for kids.

Presketch.

Outlines inked with Uniball Fine.

The final with sculpted lines and cross-hatching. #friend

If you would like to purchase any of these original ink drawings, please contact me! holyspiritdriven@hotmail.com

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