This book was a lot more fun....I was finally getting to take some illustration classes and drawing constantly, both for school and just for myself. I also broke up with my girlfriend of 2-plus years and became a lot more social. Some of the friends I made at this point still meet up every Friday night at a bar in Jamaica Plain for "Drink and Draw" sketchbook nights, it's a lot of fun. Fun counts for a lot with me.
Pencil and color sketches for what ended up being a punk rock mother and child painting I did with little kid tempera on gessoed black matteboard....I was really into Andrew Wyeth's egg tempera drybrush paintings, but I was (and still am) all about instant results. If I get all fired up with an idea, I just want to draw/ paint it out ASAP and not lose time prepping and customizing my surface. Wyeth's egg tempera method sounded like it took forever to prepare and the primary school color tempera paints I had were ready to roll. Plus I was thrifty....after the first semester reviews tons of students who did poorly threw all their assignments (mounted with rubber cement on nice black matteboard) in the trash. I reclaimed them, peeled off the crappy drawings, and ended up with a huge pile of good black matteboard to paint on. I hate plain white surfaces and preferred to work on black or dark blue colors for years:
Sketch of my friend Adam:
My friend Paul:
My friend Tom of Standard Design and the band No-Shadow Kick:
Creepy guy in long underwear (I'm actually scared of my own drawing):
My old friend Dave, who was in Tom's old band:
Sketch for my page of the "Jack" story a bunch of us collaborated on for FORTY-3:
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