When I was a teenager, I wanted to be an artist almost as much as I wanted to be a writer. I kept writing, and I got better at it; I didn't really stick with the art to the extent that would have been necessary, so those skills never improved.
Doesn't mean I stopped.
Back in this post, I mentioned my ongoing predilection for scribbling random little drawings on scrap paper. That post was about my li'l dashed-off portrait of Joey Ramone. You remember that one, right?
Of course you do! So let's join our Joey with a few other gems from my Scrap Paper Gallery.
The truth is I scratch out so many of these things, pretty much every day, and the vast majority of them are immediately consigned to the recycling bin. The SUPERCATE! picture is a portrait of a coworker, and it has survived years, maybe even longer. As you can see, it's tacked on a bulletin board at work. It's one of my rare color works, though we've remixed a black and white version for contrast. Um...no pun intended.
Nor accomplished.
Batman is my favorite scribbling sketch subject. To wit:
The original Captain Marvel has turned up in a couple of scrap paper renderings:
And Superman made a holiday appearance, decked out in a Santa Claus hat and beard:
I also imagined Groucho Marx as a power pop musician:
But sometimes I just start drawing someone of no previously-fixed identity:
With that last one, I like how it shows the influence of comics artist Jim Aparo. And yeah, I do know I couldn't draw like the late, great Aparo on my best day.
But it's fun to try!
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