The Chad Frye - Illustration GuySometimes taking your dog for a walk doesn’t always translate into much exercise for the dog.
Ink and watercolor in a brown paper sketchbook.
With a week that began with the United States’ Independence Day, I thought I’d close this patriotic week with a pun.
Having worked up this fowl sketch in my sketchbook recently, it just sort of reminded me of the way some of our nation’s founding fathers looked with their big bushy hair and formal coats. So, consider this as one of our Founding Feathers. (rimshot)
Am I right? You be the judge….
His was the gift of music and an uninhibited personality.
If you live here in the States, I hope you are able to get out there to celebrate Independence Day today by going to a parade! Even if that means it’s a one-man horn player marching down the street to his own tune.
And yes, I mean today. When the 4th falls on a Sunday, the holiday is generally recognized in most areas on the Monday after.
I really liked how this one turned out. It’s a traditionally inked drawing from my sketchbook that was colored in Photoshop. Below are a few close-ups so you can enjoy some of the texture of the piece!
Spent some time the other day doing some exploratory sketches of facial expressions for Mickey Mouse in my sketchbook, one of my favorite characters to draw.
Back in the mid-aughts, I worked for a few years on a Mickey TV show drawing him and other members of his world such as Minnie, Daisy, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Chip ‘n’ Dale, Willie the Giant, Pete, Ludwig von Drake, Clarabelle, Horace Horsecollar, and so on and so forth. Having grown up reading Disney comic books, it was such a blast to get to draw those characters every day for a while.
So, while I do sketches like these from time to time for my own pleasure, I look forward to the next legitimate purpose to work on them again one day!
Elephant Umbrella – say THAT five times fast!
Oh, that Chauncey.
Of all the characters I’ve drawn from Disney’s Winnie the Pooh world, Eeyore seems to get the most love from folks. It’s strange, but his depression seems to give everyone a lot of joy. Maybe his “Debbie Downer” look on life calls attention to our own doom & gloom attitudes about things, and causes us to realize things really aren’t as bad as they seem.
Now if only members of the news media would latch onto this, we’d have more positive takes on things happening in the world to lift us up instead of tear us down. They need to watch more Winnie the Pooh for better life perspective!
– (1918 – 2002)
An inked sketch from my sketchbook, later colored digitally.