The much anticipated post for the dates July 23-28

Since I started drawing three days a week, I have less time to update the images on my blog. I know that I have an excess of fans that anxiously await my quips and incredulous statements, so I will try to update it more often.

July 23

I drew this kid's head really large. I decided that I was going to start with the eyes on a few sketches and see if I had more luck getting good exaggerations if I started from the inside of the face instead of the face shape.

This couple was pretty cool. They got their kids drawn earlier in the day and they decided that they were going to get one as well. I started with the guy and then drew the girl. They loved the nose that I drew on him and she loved how big that I made her teeth.

July 25

This kid was probably the coolest person that I ever drew. We talked about Disneyland and Universal Studios and he told me about how he races super cross dirt bikes across the country and that he is the Southwest Champion. He loved the caricature and as he walked away, he gave me a $3 tip. Mad Props.

T. hustled these people pretty well. He got them in the chair, drew their faces, and sold himself a frame...They came back a little later and watched me draw the snowboard girl and heard me say that I could draw bodies for $5 and wanted me to re-draw their sketches. I didn't really like the way it turned out, but I think that I had a decent likeness on the little girl.

I don't draw cars very often, but when I do, they never turn out the way that they are supposed to. I figure that I would be better off just drawing a wedge with wheels like a boy scout pinewood derby car or a dune-buggy like Ned Flanders at the Super Bowl.

July 28

I started drawing on this day with the intention of getting some absolutely killer likenesses...I'm not sure where I was going with these next two, but her grandmother loved them.

I thought this girl turned out looking really cute. I'm not that good at drawing babies, but I think that this one was alright.

I liked the drawing of the kid on the right a little more than the one on the left.

M. drew her daughter like a mother pushing around some monkeys in stroller and then she decided that she wanted to get a caricature as well. She was really nice and later in the day she gave me her business card and told me to call her if I ever make it up to SF... ;)

Scottish people are the best. There is just something about the accent that makes me think about the toughest, rowdiest, group of people that you'll ever meet. These girls sounded a bit more Americanized than their father (who happened to think that the caricatures was great.)

The parents stood behind me and had a discussion in Spanish the whole time I drew his face and just as I started to put on color, they leaned over to me and whispered, "He looks so sad." I looked over and the kid and saw him with a frown and I said "Uh huh." They said, "In the picture, he looks sad." I sort of looked at the kid and looked back at the parents and thought, "Well, I didn't make him sad, he was sad when he sat down."

Corn rows...will I ever be able to draw corn rows?

July 30

I just wasn't in the mood for drawing on Monday. I just sort of wanted to stand there and stare out into space. I started talking to B. about people that we've drawn over the weekend and demos. I ranted and raved about how he didn't have any of my demos up and that I needed to be able to tell the kiddies that I could draw well enough to have art on the wall of the stand. He said that he hated hockey players, so as a prank, I drew this bearded man as a hockey player.

Not that I don't love drawing people during the day, but the last people that roll up and double your sales, just hit the spot and make you glad that you came in for 3 hours on a Monday night, instead of laying on the couch. These kids were a riot. I thought it was funny about the hockey jersey, baseball cap, and soccer...I think that I rocked it...the family did too, they bought a matte and frame.

Peace out...