Actually, I did this drawing on December 4th, 2011, while tabling at the second annual Bent Con, at the Bonaventure Hotel, in Downtown Los Angeles, California. I had been scanning and prepping the drawings from my early 80’s sketchbooks for the upcoming Bruno Gmuender anthology: “Fur”, and thought I’d try my hand at doing the same kind of drawing 30 years on. This is what I came up with.
I just don’t have the patience anymore. I cheated, going in with a gray Tombo brush pen and punching up the shadows. I worked quicker, simpler. I dunno. I’ve been working, my whole adult career as an artist, to be simpler. I really admire simplicity. But something has been lost as well. Those early drawings really have a luminous glow to them that I can’t seem to match these days. Oh well…
2 replies on “PrismaColor Drawings of My Youth #10; Mother Trucker ’11”
I recently translated an interview Robert Crumb did for the Comics Journal in 1987 and he was complaining of the very same thing – having lost some some of the keenness he had in his twenties, the ability he had to concentrate for a long stretch of time, the patience…
He did say that was compensated by other qualities he'd developed over the years. So maybe it's inevitable. In any case, you're in good company.
Thank you for the comment. Sorry it took almost 10 years to see it and reply. I’ll try to be quicker next time. (LOL). I think my increasing simplicity is not a matter of complaint. It’s something I’ve been striving for, actually. My illustrations for my 2 adults only adult coloring books were actually painful to execute, because I had to inject detail (or shape) at every opportunity to give the patrons something to color. And I had to connect all the lines.