This is the final sketch from the 1997 sketchbook. This guy looks like a character from The Cauldron, a cops-versus-magic series that I’ve tried to get off the ground a couple of times. Neither time was in ’97 so either he’s not the guy I’m thinking of or I did this sketch quite awhile after I’d filled the rest of the sketchbook. That happens. I’ll think I’ve filled a sketchbook, start working in another one and later discover a couple of blank pages in the older book.

This is the last sketch of the client and her kids club gang. If anyone out there has seen a give away comic featuring the adventures of a friendly pharmacist and her preteen sidekicks then you’ve got a collector’s item! (But then, belly button lint is a collector’s item for the right person.) It’s also, despite the number of sketches here, not a project that Nizzibet or I had any input on after that first meeting. No regrets on that. I figure that if you aren’t syncing with a client early on in the process you’re not likely to start syncing better later.

This is the second to last of the sketches I did for the for the pharmacy kids club project. Then there’s only one more sketch left from this sketchbook and we’ll move on to something else.

It’s my brother Glenn‘s birthday today. I will spare you all the horror of me singing “Happy Birthday” to him.

Yes. It’s her.

I don’t know if the client’s kids club is still active. We never met with her after the big meeting in California. About five years later I did see a kids club publication in one of the supermarket’s pharmacies. I think I took a copy home with me but danged if I know where it is now.

As I remember it, the client had some sort of show down in Southern California. As part of the art she would play different characters besides the friendly pharmacist. I don’t remember if we were shown any photos from the actual show. I know that we definitely didn’t see any footage of her in action. If we had I would have had a better sense of how to portray her. In person she was very buttoned down. She didn’t come across as someone who enjoyed performing or being creative or spending time with kids. Not that she disliked any of that, necessarily, it just took some imagination to see her being imaginative.

Did I mention that I did a lot of sketches of this woman?

At some point we asked the client what she thought of the caricaturing I was doing of her. She was mostly noncommital. Except. She thought her cartoon self wasn’t smiling enough. Didn’t look friendly enough.

Hmmm.

I wanted to point out that if she wanted her cartoon to smile it would help if she gave me a real life example to follow. Oh well.

Barely awake at the moment. Is this the client? Yup. It’s the client.