I’m trying to catch up with the big guns on Shambot (23 posts! Jeeze, Patrick. That “jeeze” also goes to anyone over 20) Anyway here is a piece from my Illustrated Portrait class. Guess who it is!

I tried to do something different with this, first of all using charcoal instead of paint or markers, and focusing on drawing legs because I don’t do that often. I still kept a few bits of my usual imagery (the hands, speech bubbles, and text); they look so much different in charcoal! I think one might call this style “bad on purpose”, maybe not “bad”, but nothing is really in proportion. I think a good example of an artist who is “bad on purpose” is Mark Todd. It’s definitely the worst way to explain it, because Mark Todd is incredible and his artwork is amazing and pretty much the epitome of what I want to be able to do (him and the Clayton Brothers which I will write a post about later). He just has so many layers in his work! Number 3 and 12 are my favorites on the page which I gave you a link to. Check him out! And also, don’t ever relate the phrase “bad on purpose” to anyone.

ALSO: I call dibs on writing posts dedicated to contemporary illustrators, where I will both inform and explain the artist’s work, and give you my thoughts. I’ll also link to some cool artwork. NEATO.