From the Vault #9: Larry David

This Larry David drawing was done in the same vein as the John Lennon one. I did this back in 2003 or so when Curb Your Enthusiasm was really just starting to pick up steam to being a hugely popular show. The colored version of this is lying around here somewhere. I always enjoy the sketch version much more than the final though. With the sketch you get to see all the bones to the drawing. I'm not a big fan of this piece, to me there just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of personality to it. Just kind of boring. In the Lennon piece, his smugness almost seemed to seep out of the paper. Now I'm not saying Lennon was normally a smug person, in fact just the opposite from what I've read and heard. But you could tell at times that he knew how to be a bitch. The Larry David drawing seen above doesn't capture any of that. David is pretty much a self-professed douchebag, and I'm not feeling it. Just a drawing...

From the Vault #6: John Lennon

Here's another blast from the past. This ink/colored pencil combo was done in either late 2004 or early 2005. It was cold out, that's all I really remember. This John Lennon piece was initially done as a test to just hone my skills a little bit more with colored pencil (still my favorite medium besides the computer). It came out pretty good with some obvious tweaks that would need to be made: his wonked glasses, cigarette positioning and his ginormous sausage fingers on his right hand. Overall I do like how the coloration came out on this guy. At one point I wanted to make prints of this to sell but in the end deemed it not strong enough. My problem is I always think to big, not so much in grandiose ideas but more so in size. I planned to do this as a 16x20 inch (or thereabouts). In retrospect these would probably have made pretty kick-ass 5x7 or 5x8's.