I had some fun combining my drawing interests of the last few weeks into a little sketch of me and the dogs who star in my graphic memoir, but in mid century modern style.
I've been scribbling a lot lately with depicting myself and my dogs in the woods, since we are there during so much of my graphic memoir.
And over Thanksgiving I spent some time playing with another on-going interest, my love of mid-century modern style cartoons. Is there anything better than Gerald McBoing Boing? NO!!
Anyhow, I spent some more time looking at mid century modern illustrations of people and dogs, and of wooded areas and then, inspired by those, did a little sketch on my iPad pro of myself and my dogs. Highly stylized of course.
One piece of inspiration I found on the web:
My own take on it:
This would be an example of me learning by "stealing like an artist." Copying, making it my own, learning and learning how to do it.
And I also practiced rough textures, half tones, and offsetting the layers of line, color, and shade to get what seems to be elements of that mid century modern look.
What I love most about this little sketch is the dogs. I think they are terrific. I might do more with my dogs and cats in this style.
And I wish I were that tall and skinny. Whoo!
