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The background photo was taken by Larry E. Meredith in Phoenix, Arizona 1982

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The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist. ~Robert Brault

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Developing a Cartoon

This is one of the cartoons The Kid drew for Hector's Hectic Life in 1959. The first is an initial sketch of the idea and then it is followed by some detail and filling in work.




This is another example of development. (Keep in mind it was done in 1959 when homosexuality was still something seldom spoken of. In fact, The Kid was not even consciously addressing the issue. The Kid just thought it would be funny to have two priests acting like school girls in love. In 1958, Pope Pius XII died and Pope John XXIII came Pontiff. Pope John began making a number changes and at the time the Catholic Church was questioning and changing their stand on a number of issues, which is why the cartoon was drawn with the caption, "Look's like another problem for the Pope.)





Sketching Out Hector

The Kid was just trying to come up with how Hector should look. See Hector's Hectic Life for the cartoons The Kid did of Hector.

Developing a Cartoon

This is one of the cartoons The Kid drew for Hector's Hectic Life in 1959. The first is an initial sketch of the idea and then it is followed by some detail and filling in work.




This is another example of development. (Keep in mind it was done in 1959 when homosexuality was still something seldom spoken of. In fact, The Kid was not even consciously addressing the issue. The Kid just thought it would be funny to have two priests acting like school girls in love. At the time the Catholic Church had been questioning and changing their stand on a number of issues, which is why the cartoon was drawn with the caption, "Look's like another problem for the Pope.)





Ghost Story

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Early Cartoon

Skinny

Wishing Won't Do it

















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Awakening (Charcoal Sketch) Age 15

New Blog of Newly Found Sketches


I had recently found in an old tub buried in the back of a storage closet some youthful sketches. I originally began adding them to Tatters, but since then I found several more of my childhood and teen drawing, so I decided to create a separate blog for these call Charcoal and Pen Lines.

The sketches in this blog were done from the age of 7 to 19, such as the detail from "Awakening" on the left. This was done in charcoal when I was 15.

Train Spraying Ash (Age 9)

Night Blooms (Age 7)

Fish (Age 7)

Friday, September 3, 2010

Reassuring Hobo Joe

Now that the Kerouac the Kitten is here, we have to let Hobo Joe know he isn't forgotten.