Unlike Ellis's life drawing class, the North Park Drawing Group models insist on nudifying themselves. Pencil, white pencil on gray paper, 20 minute pose. The head may be too small, but if you turn the head to face forward in your mind the shoulder to butt is about 4 head lengths. The model was 6 feet tall.
Weekly figure drawing is about all the drawing I've done lately. No mood for self-deprecating caricatures. Lay-off identity crisis and such.
Here's a Thanksgiving themed sports page illustration I did for the North County Times in 2007. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Looks good Ben.
So very nice! Always looks so classy and Old-Master-y to do the toned paper with white and black. Which is to say it looks very "Montagian."
Don't let the lay-off get you too down...something good'll come up!
Great drawing, Ben. I've been there with the whole layoff thing. No fun at all. It's important to keep up friendships and such... sometimes people intestinally keep their distance because they don't know if you want to see people. It's kinda weird, but it happens. Call people, meet for coffee, make connections... you never know when a friend will know something about a job that could be right for you.
Yeah, look at where I ended up a year later after my layoff. No fun at least your still in SD. Makes things worse, A Powerball ticket was won just down the street from where I'm at. NOW That's depressing.
Nice work Ben. Great volume and rendering. The head is definitely not too big.
Goof off doing the avis job for awhile.
I'm about to go in on my day off. Shuttling cars to auction. 8 hours. 64 bucks. Slap me.
Thanks. I thought I had something with a studio manager who did printing for the Comic Fest, works with someone whom I worked with years ago, and is a close friend of Dave Fenderson (that last connection is a stretch, but I'm on my way to Kevin Bacon eventually). But after he requested to see my resume (which he was positive about), and after two follow-up calls, nothing. Do any of you know Phil Haxo?
I'm off to up state New York for Thanksgiving. My mother picked a retirement home with even more snow and cold than Long Island. My brother there drew the short straw I guess (there are two Montag offspring in sunny San Diego). All stereotypes are true and my ego is going to be badly beaten by next Sunday. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Phil has got a couple of TAG connections, I think. I don't know him myself, but you might check with Ranjo. Fenderson might know him, too, now that i think of it.
They Insist. There's a horror movie poster in there.
Phil Haxo was a big deal in early Malibu Comics. I think it was Malibu. Beata knows him I believe. He knew Shel Dorf and may have had something to do with Shel's cut and paste Dick Tracy comics. I guess it was Pacific Comics. Someone feel free to correct me.
I looked him up on one page. Blackthorne Comics seems to be what he was associated with. That sounds right now.
Thanks for the info. If I speak to him again I'll drop a few names.
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