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<\/p>\nYes…this week’s cartoon is…uhm…a tad late, isn’t it? Sorry…but my paying job took precidence this weekend. It’s been a hectic rush to get stuff done before our mid February deadline, but it looks like we’ll be fine. I have the cartoon for the week nearly done, it just needs the charcoaling, and a bit of ink wash.<\/p>\n
Perhaps in the meantime, can I bribe you with something from my sketchbook…?<\/p>\n
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The graying out in the lower left hand corner is from the way my sketch book bulged out from the scanner plate. I’m using a thread bound sketch book lately, instead of wire bound and it won’t lay flat on the scanner. The smudges are because it’s a pencil sketch, and I like to work in a very soft lead. I used a .5mm technical pencil and a wad of kneaded rubber for this one, which is the same as I use for the roughs of my political cartoons.<\/p>\n
I wish I could draw more from life. I’m at that point now where I know I can improve vastly if I could do that on a regular basis. But for now I have to make do with photos, and a little imagination. This one came from a photo that I found in some forgotten corner of the internet, that I printed out and tacked to the wall in front of my drafting table as an exercise. I adjusted the body proportions and hair style to taste, and made the guy’s jeans resemble something more like I was used to seeing, back in the 1970s, when guys, even straight guys were allowed to be sexy below the waist. I don’t think anybody, anybody male that is, wears hip huggers and flared jeans anymore. Or wide belts. That’s all strictly 70s stuff. As a nod to the present, I resisted the temptation to make his hair longer. Actually, not every guy wore his hair long back when I was a twenty-something either, and some of them still managed to look sexy.<\/p>\n
I need to do this sort of thing more often. Just sketch for the sake of it, instead of to produce anything specific. And I need to practice from life, instead of from pictures, and my anatomy books. But I haven’t the nerve to actually ask someone to pose. So I reckon I’ll just have to make due with magazine clippings and the random internet photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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