A common animal that many artists don’t draw well is the horse. I suspect that’s because it’s an animal most of us are familiar with because we’ve seen it on television many times but rarely encounter the critter in person. We see cats and dogs on a regular basis but horses are not a regular part of most American’s lives.
Horses are herbivores. They’ve evolved to walk on a single toe. Once I realized that I didn’t know how to draw a horse from memory I avoided drawing them for a long time.
A page of general practice sketches.
I’m pretty sure that the faces here with the big lips and the yarnish hair are my attempt at drawing golliwogs. I was picturing these as multicolored characters rather than the standard black skin and red lips. Really multicolored – blue, green, yellow, red, orange, white – with the hair, mouth and eyes one color and the body another. They’d be in every combination but black and red (unless the lips and such were black and the body red). The golliwogs have a nice simple cartoon design. It’s too bad that design is a racist sneer.
The overly muscled fellow at the bottom of the page is the Hulk. The Hulk was the second comic book character (after Spider-Man) whose series I read regularly. The version I read was the early seventies stupid Hulk. I’ve always been impressed by the artists who managed to draw that huge bulky physique and make it look, if not natural, at least real within the comic.
These are sketches of the protagonist of that early attempt at a webcomic. I don’t believe I ever gave her a name. The weird clown is just a bonus.
Well, it’s not really a new sketchbook. Just new as far as posting images here. But you knew that. I’m pretty sure that all the work in here was done in 2003.
Not much to say about this page. It’s primarily inking practice, playing with my Micron pens.
As I said yesterday, this is the last of the postcard series for now. I’ve done some since I finished this one but not enough to have a good run of them. Once I’ve at least a month’s worth I’ll put it out.
This card has Tom Lawson’s name on it. It’s sitting on the table until I hear back from him with an address.
This is also the last of this set of postcards. I’ll post the color version tomorrow and Saturday we’ll start reviewing another sketchbook.
All dressed up.
This one went to Kent Mannis.
The post title refers to the idea that many people find clowns frightening. I can’t remember if I thought they were scary when I was a kid. I don’t remember finding them very funny though.
Can you feel the love?
