Gig at Senior Center

Yesterday, I had a gig at Classic Hyatt Residence, a fairly upscale assisted living facility in Yonkers. Doing caricatures of elderly people can go one way or another, as they tend to not be all that excited about their looks. This group, however, was extremely enthusiastic about participating, and they all lined up with their canes and walkers. I was smitten by them, and at the end of the gig, several of them came up to me and said thank you. It is a fortunate thing to gain insight into the variety of ways that one can age. Some people get a vacant look and their eyes glaze over. Others take a renewed interest in color and friends, and find every excuse to laugh at themselves. The attached is a caricature that i reworked from the senior gig. I am trying to learn how to color using photoshop.

Inaugural Comic

Hi Readers. Today, I finished my first two ever comic book pages. These are a long time coming. Thanks to Matt Madden, my fine teacher at School of Visual Arts, I now know how to lay out a page, ink it, and letter it. The road to successful lettering, as it turns out, will be arduous. I never guessed. That is always the detail i paid the least amount of attention to, when in fact, it among the most important facets. Then there is the narrative. Comics are formal to a point, this extended by the content of the story. This little comic, which you may not be able to read so well, is about a neighbor of mine.  According to Stanley, some people "hook you up"  and others....