April 24, 2012
Crazy busy. Working quite a bit on tracing paper. Allows me to work freely without pencil and if I screw it up I can put another piece of tracing paper over it and not lose the design. Here are a couple recent illustrations done in this manner. First up, the legendary Charlie Meadows:
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Done from a photograph. Next up Prescott Sheriff George Ruffner (who won a mortuary in a poker game and thus could offer taxpayers the luxury of being able to shoot 'em, groom 'em and entomb 'em.
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These are for upcoming True West Moments that will run in the Arizona Republic. Next up a set piece for the next Graphic Cinema:
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Very clean style, eh?
"Inspiration comes from working every day."
—Charles Pierre Baudelaire