Wednesday, February 25, 2009

SKETCHBOOK DROPPINGS: NEW STYLE

I have been adapting a style lately that more accurately reflects my personality and how I work. In the past, I have tried so hard to polish my style--to create works that are "gleaming" in their finished appearance. The ironic thing is that those pieces generate nowhere near the positive reaction that my looser, less polished pieces generate. I have shown my portfolio to people, watched them flip past all of the pieces that I was so proud of because of their polished finish only to have them stop at gaze at some sketch. I don't know what that says about me but I think I am going to explore this for awhile.
Here is another piece from my sketchbook...

3 comments:

Cory said...

Hear hear! These are looking awesome man! You're absolutely right about people pausing on a doodle and by-passing something you've poured yourself into, I know what you mean.

Cory said...

And, this is just a guess but would that be a caricature of Jim Broadbent?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-photohub/dims/MOVS/1/78/78/100/http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_celebrity/jim-broadbent-8575&imgrefurl=http://www.moviefone.com/movie/hot-fuzz/26460/credits&usg=__pYzwjPJDJyLgdI7me4X4YI2bFJw=&h=78&w=78&sz=10&hl=en&start=23&sig2=HTeT0tQrviO4u2C7dEDlFA&um=1&tbnid=uNwjxAO8zU1U6M:&tbnh=73&tbnw=73&ei=0pauSeHuGduImQeNrJj2BQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfrank%2Bbutterman%26start%3D21%26ndsp%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN


Wow, what a link.

James Palmer said...

Bwahhhahahah! Jim Broadbent! Funnily enough, no. It's not, but it might be that his wonderful face is somewhere in my subconscious. If there were ever a face that were screaming to be caricatured... I was watching Brazil the other day and didn't realize that he played the plastic surgeon in that movie. What a guy...