Hi!
I'm happy to be able to post my first sketchbook drawings of the new year.
There are eleven in all so I'll break this up into two posts.
In no particular order—and without further ado.....
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| That's What I Thought - Copyright 2019 - Jephyr - All Rights Reserved |
^ ^ ^ More frequent visitors to this blog will know that I love creating wacky portraits—and have been focusing on those for quite awhile.
You'll find recent examples of them in Part One and Two—but you'll also see that I've been feeling like drawing more complete characters lately as well.
Although I've done a lot of them over the years—this was one of the first of several recent drawings that opened up that door again.
I've also allowed myself to embrace more of a straight cartooning approach over the last month or so—and have enjoyed that a lot too.
It's been a very refreshing change of pace.
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| Rikkie Raatt - Copyright 2019 - Jephyr - All Rights Reserved |
^ ^ ^ This was the drawing I created right after the one above—again going with more complete character design and a cartooning approach.
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| Haywire High-Wire - Copyright 2019 - Jephyr - All Rights Reserved |
^ ^ ^ I still begin a LOT of my sketches by lighting scribbling on the page and looking for ideas to spring from those unconscious lines.
After beginning this sketch using that method—I saw the face on this guy jump out on me from those scribbles—and thought it looked like a whale.
After that—the rest of this po' character in a precarious position began to take shape.
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| John Willy Bob - Copyright 2019 - Jephyr - All Rights Reserved |
^ ^ ^ John Willy Bob is the kind of "portrait" I've been enjoying creating for ages—and is one of the older drawings in this group—before the more complete characters of late.
Although it wasn't intentional on my part—this character reminds me of older rockers like Neil Young or David Lindley.
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| Do You Feel Lucky, Punk? - Copyright 2019 - Jephyr - All Rights Reserved |
^ ^ ^ In Part Two I'll post several more complete characters—but I'll close out today's update with another screwy "portrait."
Begun as a scribble sketch—I initially saw the lines that led me to creating this character's head.
Later I used an art anatomy book as a reference to add the cartoonish neck and shoulder bones.
The title, "Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?" came from thinking his expression resembled the face Clint Eastwood made while saying (nearly) the same line in a Dirty Harry movie:
"I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?"
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Thanks for stopping by.
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See you again soon!
