Working Away

I was talking to M on the phone this weekend, laughing about how I ended up penning myself in with my illustrations. In trying to maintain continuity of style and color, I found it helpful to spread everything, everything out in front of me in a ring. I would do all skin tones first, then hop between this pic and that doing the rest of the colors. She thought this would make a great picture! So here it is:





The funny thing about being the artist is that, at least for me, I feel entitled to walk on top of my drawings if I feel like it. And this weekend, with my precious floor space given to drawing paper, it was sort of a necessity. Actually, I get kind of a kick out of walking on them. Like -- You're not the boss of me!

After the day of drawing was done, I felt like playing around a bit and whipped this drawing of Scott. Pretty good resemblance, if I do say so myself: