Flaming Artist
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.
This drawing, I realized after scanning, was part of a series of drawings about this fantasy character. As near as I can tell they were done in the late 80’s. The drawings are all on the backs of a Richie Rich animated TV series episode that I did storyboards for in the summer of ’83, but the drawing skill level is higher than the work I was doing at that point, so I’d put them at least a couple years later. I’m posting all 3 drawings I can find from the series.
These drawings seem to be of a slightly later vintage that yesterday’s posting, mid-80’s I’d say. I base that estimation on the evidence of somewhat improved drawing chops, the greater realism in the looseness and paunchiness of the flesh of the subjects (indicating that I’d actually had direct contact with said flesh, starting shortly after my 21st birthday in late ’81) and the subject matter on the front side of the photocopies which is, in these drawings, scripts from various animated TV series I was employed on during the mid 80’s.
I would judge these drawings to be done sometime in the late 70’s, when I was in my late teens, perhaps around the time I graduated from high school, certainly while I was still a virgin. I judge that partially from the skill level of the drawing (they look to have been done before I started taking life drawing in my first year of college, and these middle aged men have the bodies of 20 year olds, which would indicate that I hadn’t had sex yet) and from the text on the front side of these photocopies (on which I executed the drawings on the back side) This text (I won’t bore you with posting the fronts, so take my word for it) seem to be minutes from some medical meetings my father was involved with, which would put the artist (me) in the house of my growing-up. I’m posting them because they’re rare; I destroyed most of my erotic drawings done at my family home for fear of discovery.
