This is the first time I drew someone I've never met in person, and I was shocked it came through without my usual process which is incubating the idea of drawing the person, looking through or asking for pictures to find what I like that'd work, and sleeping on the images working in my brain, and then looking at the picture and trying out on paper and pencil again and again. This process can take years even with someone I know, just like my previous post with Julia Parker.
And last night I humored myself by directly going to pencil and paper because I haven't drawn anybody in a year, but I want to draw Drew to give him as a thank-you gift for freely sharing tabs of ukulele for me to learn and always gotten back to me through email in a timely manner. So I paused one of Drew's youtube videos where I learned his rendition and I liked his funny expression, and there I started to sketch, and of course, the first try was funnily way off, so I erased until one eye left and restart. And voila, the face outline came through, I was ecstatic!
And continue on, I went to his most current (just the other week) instructional video of a song I was learning to draw his clothing because I liked the colors, and his current look with white beard and glasses. His funny expression's from a video 10 years ago. And then, went to another video of his which is the first video I learned from him last year, to draw the beer he had in the shot, as my memory of him.
There, the outline's finished and I was eager to ink the outline to seal the look so I could sleep with happiness, and leaving the color for today. And just like my previous post with Julia, I wanted to do something new. So this morning I colored it with the unforgiving alcohol based COPIC ciao brush markers I bought last year. And since my paper is not marker paper, it's more deadly because you can't blend to smooth out mistakes. So I did few mistakes, but I started with fairly light colors and work my way in and the drawing's saved at the end.
