Happy Birdday, as well, to Mike Kaluta! Oh, and Sean Connery!
This is a drawing I made of Kelly while sitting with a library reference file that I couldn't check out. It's from a portrait of him from the early 60s.
Above and below from Songs of the Pogo
From the back cover of Pogo #11
This is a drawing I made of Kelly while sitting with a library reference file that I couldn't check out. It's from a portrait of him from the early 60s.
I envy your ability to do work of such quality under such constraints.
ReplyDeleteDaniel, I will say it was intimidating. I was traveling on a research trip and stopped in at a small town library. While searching for stuff totally unrelated I came across an 8x10 glossy of this Kelly pose. Their photocopy machine was out of order. I had a sketchpad and charcoals in my briefcase, but I started sketching in pencil. Suddenly I thought i may never see this pic again, so I started over, measuring the proportions carefully and then started in with charcoal. Well, boy did I get dirty looks from the librarian, but she didn't stop me, cuz, like, what law was I breaking? Still, I knew they thought I'd get charcoal dust over everything, so I was SO careful not to smudge anything. When I handed the file back to her, she looked it over minutely, but I passed her scrutiny. Later I added in the whitish highlight. I'm not perfectly satisfied with the result, but like you said, there were constraints. Thanks.
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