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Early mornings
black sharpie and water color
Westwood 1986
Let me try to explain myself.
When I was a young man I loved illustration.
Perhaps the two illustrators who had the greatest influence on me were Aubrey Beardsley and Jean Giraud aka Moebius. Both artist drew with a fine line and I tried to emulate that.
Here's an old drawing of mine.
pencil drawing
Venice CA 1978
So back then I saw myself as an illustrator.
Then sometime around 1980 I was introduced to Abstract Expressionism and I had an epiphany...
Could I approach Abstract Expressionism with an illustrator's line?
A new world opened up to me and I started having fun with my drawing.
And then, for about 35 years I never drew an identifiable object.
No joke.
Still Life
black sharpie
Westwood 1985
Attitude Adjustment
pen, colored pencil and watercolor
Duarte CA 1996
Time never began
black sharpie on bond paper
San Francisco 2003
Dan's drawing
black sharpie
Rosemead 2011
i did a lot of these drawings. And I really enjoyed making them. For over thirty years I completely liberated myself from the rigors of drawing something that had to look like something. And I loved it. But then...
Sometime around 2015 I returned to illustration. Why? I'll be honest with you, I started to miss it.
Call it full circle but that's where I'm at now.
I still treasure my line though.
little boxes
black sharpie on paper
Los Angeles 2019
Thank you Aubrey and Jean.
Aubrey Beardsley
Jean Giraud aka Moebius
Doing the Six Fan-arts Challenge :)
And testing digital painting on my phone :)
1 - Old Thor (Marvel)
2 - The Gronk (Starlord / 2000 AD)
3 - San/Princess Mononoke (Ghibli)
4 - Jad & Yula (from Time Masters by René Laloux & Moebius)
5 - Joker (DC Comics)
Only One left !