Yeah book!

My special lady friend brought over her third grade year book the other weekend for us to draw children out of. I'm currently working on a comic book with an eleven year old as the main chracter. I totally forgot how awkward that year was, but seeing her yearbook brought the whole thing flooding back to me.

Things aren't really good in sixth grade, really. You've got the hormones, the girls are taller and bigger than the boys. Some of them are DONE with puberty! There's always one or two girls who go from looking like 9 year olds to looking like they're 18 in the span of two months. What does that even do to a girls bones, I wonder? You must ache every day for MONTHS after that. Mostly 11 and 12 year olds look like people in mid-morph from the Michael Jackson "Black or White" video.



Here's some doodles from the bus. They're mixed up with some concepty stuff, like a RGE Reader which looks strangely like a PKE meter, and the MANOTAUR which I cannot remember how that came about. I think someone said it during a kung fu film.
Here's some TRAIN PEOPLE. I've been catching the train at odd times recently, so there haven't been a whole lot of people to draw.

ANGERATURE

The other day the casino I work at had a company picnic, and they hired a caricature artist. After the picnic had ended they sent her to the Employee Dining Room which, sadly, I work in. While watching her I couldn't help but get upset about how she went about doing a caricature. It felt like she was belaboring it a little bit, and there was something that really bothered me about her drawings. She has high cheekbones, and she gave EVERYONE high cheekbones unless their face was REALLY round. I've got a pill-shaped head, and she'd have given ME high cheekbones.

During my lunch break, I sat down next to her and started drawing her subjects. Only since she took ten minutes a picture, I was outpacing 10 to 1. All these caricatures are minute sketches of people sitting around. They were facing her dead on, so I got MOST of the people actually posing in a quarter view, which I'm happy about, as that's my favorite view to draw in.

The problem came from the other 9 minutes where I wasn't drawing the subject, and decided to look around and draw other casinites. She's probably a better artist in a situation unlike where she was, so I'm not TOO down on her. I mean she's paid to compliment people, but it still bothers me that she starts the drawing with the tip of the nose.
These two pictures are SUPER CLUTTERED drawings from the train. I HAD more than 2 sheets of paper with me, but it's hard to tell. Since the pages are largely unaltered they have some doodles from my comic on them.