...then you may have what it takes to be an artist.

Lesson One:

No silly...not that Pirate.   This Pirate... 

This is a work in progress.  I'm trying desperately to get my drawing groove back.  I took a sick day off today because my insomnia came roaring back last night for some reason and I felt utterly miserable this morning.  I stumbled down to the basement to do a laundry and laid eyes on the little pirate statuette I'd bought in Catalina a couple of summer's ago.  My brother probably remembers it.  The subject is female but I took one look at it and knew I could draw a really sexy male pirate from it.  So I bought it and took it home and it's been sitting on one of my art room shelves ever since.  This morning I picked it up and plopped it on my drafting table, taped some Strathmore to one of my drawing boards and somehow, even though I could barely think straight, managed to wrest out a pretty good pencil sketch of what I had in mind when I first set eyes on it.

A few slight adjustments to the body here and there...somewhat broader shoulders, a slightly different curve on the backside, a somewhat sharper jawline...and there was my beautiful and dangerous young pirate.  I think I'll leave him blond.

I've some more work to do on this, mostly background stuff now.  I need to work on the monkey a bit too.  Then I'll ink it up.  Stay tuned.