Friday, October 1, 2010

A drawing

So I've been drawing more recently and since Emily and Danny have blogs where they post their stuff I thought I'd make one too. I think Emily actually suggested it, too.
Here's a little drawing I've made recently. A hot dog squirting himself with ketchup. The ketchup packet has exploded all over his face. He is not amused. I'm not sure what he was expecting; after all, he is squirting ketchup on his face out of his own free will. Perhaps he was hoping for a nice zig-zag pattern. That is not what you got, Mr. Hot Dog! Now you look quite foolish!
Anyway I'll start with the sketch I did in my sketchbook:
There's another unrelated drawing I did next to him, but just ignore that. I started to draw legs but my attention span was in its death throes at that point so they sort of disappeared.
An outline I later did on my computer.
The finished product with the outline removed. YAY!
The more I draw the more I realize how helpful models are. And my hands are two great models. I struggled to draw the hands on Mr. Hot Dog for a while, but eventually I gave up and just took a picture of my own hands in an appropriate position, and voila. HANDS.
In the final version I left out the ketchup packet, or at least the outline. The piece is now slightly more mysterious and open to the viewer's interpretation. We can assume that the missing object is a ketchup packet, but we also have the freedom to imagine other ketchup packet-shaped objects in its place. FAR OUT.