Pencil sketches: when money is tight I turn my hand to getting pencil or simple convention sketches. I use to do this as a kinda prelude for commissioning something a little bigger and seeing which artist I favoured.
Each and every one of the ‘simple’ sketches I own has its unique stamp, you get an insight into how the artist works and the detail and definition you get can be totally different to an inked piece and shouldn’t be regarded with less significance to a complete painting.
Over the next few weeks I shall upload some more but these four pieces are some of my favourites and I shall say why?
Romana Fradon- I really don’t think you can ever own enough Ramona art whatever she draws is fun and a delight. I asked for a Gorilla Grodd and I think she knocked it out the ball park with this.
Dick Giordano- One of the greats, one of the masters… he threw this in as an extra as there was a commissioned piece being ordered and he thought he couldn’t get it done quick enough. I wasn’t going to turn down free art!! So I opted for my favourite Catwoman.
My all-time favourite artist- Alex Toth: I was very lucky to be able to communicate with Alex Toth for a short time. Within that time I was sent a few pieces of art.
The first one is the stamps he liked to draw. I think these are great insight into how his mind worked
This is part of a bigger piece but he included himself on it and was accompanied with a letter pointing this out to me.
Looking at this makes me kinda sad.
From what I gathered I don’t think Mr Toth was very happy towards the end of his life and the housing he was in they would try to stop him sketching… which didn’t please him. And this self-portrait is not of a happy man.
He was happiest behind his drawing board… and they should have respected that.
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