Illustrations
You’ll find collections of images from my childhood (“Long Ago”) to more current work including both digital and traditional mediums. I’m always looking for the time to practice, to refine, to grow, to develop my own style.
Pencil Sketches
Traditional pencil and paper sketches done during and post college.
Cass & Pepsi
Description.
My sketch of a photo I took of my sister Cass and her adopted cat, Pepsi, in Dornholzhausen, Germany. Probably around 1980. I shot the photo from my second-floor bedroom window looking down into our Hof.
Not sure if it’s cheating or not, but I started by laying out a grid on the paper and overlaying a grid on a digital copy of the photo in Photoshop. I used a grid because I couldn’t find a way to start the photo. I keep staring at the image trying to find any horizontal or vertical lines – trying to layout the proportions and wasn’t having any luck. So, cheating, or not, grid it was.
The entire illustration was done with a regular #2 pencil, a smudge stick, and a couple of erasers. Maybe this is cheating also, but a tacky eraser is a great way to create texture on the cobblestones.
Information.
- Title : Cass & Pepsi
- Inspiration : Based on my photograph of the same
- Year : 2018
- Medium : Paper and pencil