This is a scan of a sketch from 1994. Seems to be a police officer from some future utopia.
For the next month or so, most of the DAILY DERRIERE drawings will be taken from my dedicated DAILY DERRIERE sketchbook, done in 2013. Each days post will be taken from a drawing I did exactly 3 years ago on any given day. As with THE DAILY DICK series I executed and posted in 2012, I did the drawings in a re-purposed American Express Appointment Book from 2012. This appealed to my sense of perversity. Also, the shitty quality of the paper stock kept me from being too precious, too perfectionist, which I found artistically liberating. In the DAILY DICK series, it took me a couple of months to realize I could interact with the printed material in the book instead of trying to ignore it.
This drawing is copied from a old photo from the mid ’80’s. The drawing is a cropped version of the photo, as I recall. I purposefully allowed the partially sketched object in the lower right BG to be mysterious.
After a break of several months, from the death of my domestic partner, John Callahan in February 2013, to my stroke in April 2013 and my protracted recuperation therefrom, I resumed drawing in my “Daily Derrier” sketchbook (a repurposed American Express Appointment Book from 2012). This drawing was executed with Prismacolor colored pencils over a double page spread photo of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
Drawn with a blue ball point pen.
File this under “no accounting for taste”. This homoerotic drawing is based off of the villain from Robin’s (as in “Batman and Robin”) origin story in Batman #1 from the late 30’s I believe. I’ve included a panel from that story (scanned from the reprint in “Batman: From the 30’s to the 70’s, published in 1971) so y’all can see my source material.
I’d say this drawing was done in the last 10 years, as my drawing has tended to simplify as time goes on. It may be from life or my imagination; it’s hard to tell, which is a good thing as far as I’m concerned, since achieving that very thing as been one of my goals since I started drawing.