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…