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After four hardcore days of sketching - which, for better of for worse, represents my longest period of sustained drawing since grade school - I'm now preparing for something bigger. Something not drawn on a legal pad. A drawing with COLOR.

As I was drawing the eye in the lower-left corner - something I did to prove to myself that I could draw proper eyes, even if I couldn't seat them properly in faces - I was thinking about drawing as a kid.

I was NEVER good at this, nor do I think I ever will be. I simply hope to be able to refine my particular lack of style into something pleasingly cartoonish. But as I drew that eye, I remembered a TV program I used to watch as a kid that was called "Pappy Drewitt." The pretext of the show was that a man - Pappy - would draw a picture over the course of the show, doing so slowly so that those of us at home could keep pace with our crayons. Pappy would talk to us (or in reality, himself) as a camera mounted overhead would show us his drawing. A decade later, an identical setup would be used to teach me pre-calculus math via videotape.

It is, I think, precisely because I will never be anything greater than a cartoonist that I keep returning to art. It is, has always been, a channel for me to test things I can't allow myself to admit I'm invested in, things too serious to take seriously...

This isn't a direct manifestation of that. But when it comes time make the things that are, I want to be the best sketch bastard I can be.

Description
After four hardcore days of sketching - which, for better of for worse, represents my longest period of sustained drawing since grade school - I'm now preparing for something bigger. Something not drawn on a legal pad. A drawing with COLOR.

As I was drawing the eye in the lower-left corner - something I did to prove to myself that I could draw proper eyes, even if I couldn't seat them properly in faces - I was thinking about drawing as a kid.

I was NEVER good at this, nor do I think I ever will be. I simply hope to be able to refine my particular lack of style into something pleasingly cartoonish. But as I drew that eye, I remembered a TV program I used to watch as a kid that was called "Pappy Drewitt." The pretext of the show was that a man - Pappy - would draw a picture over the course of the show, doing so slowly so that those of us at home could keep pace with our crayons. Pappy would talk to us (or in reality, himself) as a camera mounted overhead would show us his drawing. A decade later, an identical setup would be used to teach me pre-calculus math via videotape.

It is, I think, precisely because I will never be anything greater than a cartoonist that I keep returning to art. It is, has always been, a channel for me to test things I can't allow myself to admit I'm invested in, things too serious to take seriously...

This isn't a direct manifestation of that. But when it comes time make the things that are, I want to be the best sketch bastard I can be.