Happy Friday! I made it through my first week of Elephants! Honestly, how many of you thought I’d make it all week?
Come back Monday for another week of goofy elephants!
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Daily Drawing: Elephant 4
Here’s a charming fellow to start your Thursday with.
Occasionally, I’ll have a potential client that wants to “audition” for a project by drawing a squirrel or swan or whatever it is that their project features. 90% of the time, the potential client will look at my drawing and decide that this squirrel (or whatever) doesn’t “fit the vision for the project” and then goes on to find a different artist. This has always frustrated me (and is part of the reason why I usually refuse to do audition drawings anymore) because it assumes that I only have 1 way to draw any given animal or object. Maybe these daily elephant drawings can help change that misconception just a little bit.
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Daily Drawing: Elephant 3
Daily Drawing: Elephant 2
Day 2 in my month of elephant drawings. I wouldn’t want to run into this guy in a dark alley. But then, I wouldn’t really want to run into any elephant in an alley no matter how well-lit the alley or how congenial the elephant.
So why am I drawing elephants? My lovely wife gave me a copy of The Art of Richard Thompson for Christmas, and I’ve been pouring through the pages– absolutely brilliant illustrations and comics. I discovered that Richard Thompson loved to draw elephants– he drew thousands of them and even began every sketch book with a drawing of one. I wanted a theme to draw all month, so I figured if an award-winning genius like Richard Thompson found enough to draw thousands of elephants, I should be able to come up with 20 or so.
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Daily Drawing: Elephant Month!
So, I’m going to try something new. For the rest of this month, every day Monday through Friday, I’m going to draw an elephant and post it here.
So why am I doing this? Last week, the software I use for this blog sent me an email with a bunch of statistics about this site. I learned a little about my regular viewers (there aren’t that many) and what content they liked best. And then it told me that I only posted 7 times in the past year. And that’s far, far too little. (That’s my take on things, not what the email told me. Overwise, that would seem overly aggressive. And who wants an overly aggressive blog software?) And I also realized that most of what I posted was (essentially) advertising for my various books and other projects.
So these elephants are going to be a (hopefully) fun way to get something new out there for you to see every day and to get me drawing something that’s not for a client. I hope you enjoy it and check back often.
