LATEST ART: Something traditional and 4 chess cartoons
July 5, 2008
I was worried that after half a year of working with nothing but Photoshop, I'd have forgotten how to move a pencil in real life, but happily that turned out not to be the case. I actually feel more comfortable overall drawing with pens than I did at the beginning of the year, so I guess all the tablet work hasn't been useless. A friend had a babyshower, so I made a drawing to give her an idea of what her son might look like before he's born! Notice the white Knight in the details, and also a judo-gi. The Knight is because I want to enforce chess on everything, and the gi is because his father is a top-level Danish martial artist. The rest of the stuff is just flowers, trains (?) and hearts.
In the Miscellaneous gallery!
I've had some development in my chess cartoon style. It's interesting to compare the first ones (drawn nearly a year ago) with the last ones. Maybe one day they'll even look good!
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Next up in the chess portrait series is good old Vlad. Vladimir Kramnik! I began the drawing today, so lets see when it's finished. I've taken up some new hobbies for summer entertainment: gardening and yoga, and feel guilty about drawing when the sun is shining, but right now there's coverage of the Dortmund tournament which INVITES comp-time. And weather forecasts next week say there'll be a bit of rain, so who knows...
For those of you who've read the book "The Chess Artist" by J. C. Hallman, I might be doing an illustration from that in the coming months. How interesting!
