Now we're gettin' back on track as far as the 3x's-a-year postings that recap another set of four panels from the "Baked Alaska" series as appearing in the pages of the Alaska Cannabist magazine (subscribe here).
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A "Grand Slam" is a trophy hunting term that refers to the Grand Slam, and there's a Super Slam and an Alaskan version too. Who cares. Next.
But seriously this points up how much fun I have simply drawing, even if it's dumb and/or I don't like it. Staring down an inky barrel over a looming deadline while drawing blanks is a bleak place to be (one of the many reasons I empathize with Beginning Drawing students and their insecurities). Cue lecturer: "It's called artWORK!"
This is by far and away one of my favorite panels ever done anywhere for anything. The concept was so good it merited extra attention to details - mostly in making a solid composition.
It was a strong enough piece to put on the cover of the calendar this year. As is tradition now I watercolored the original ballpoint pen doodle directly in the sketchbook.
At the opposite end of the spectrum of silliness, this one is one of the relatively rare instances when I just went with it, whether it made any damned sense or not.
It definitely incubated as a concept seeing as how recurring doodles tried to ferret out anything funny.
I'm just gonna hafta leave this one right here in closing. Not in any mic-drop kinda way, it's just that there's no doodle, sketch or process shot: Athenian! Also: stay 'tooned fur some new stickers...
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