Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you. Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn’t matter so much. It’s what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips. Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything. The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. Any cleanness I have in my own life is due to my feeling for words. The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.
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“Spaceman Fett” // colored pencil and ink on 11x14” bristol board
A few months ago, my good friend Tom suggested I do some sort of art that crossed over Spaceman Spiff with Boba Fett. We had a good laugh about how neat that would be. Anyway, Tom’s birthday is today and here’s his gift. Shout out to Bill Watterson.
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I completed 66 pieces of art this year. Here they are. And I still have 6 days left to add to the total.
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Sketch Sunday: Iron Man WIP
Sketch by Jimbo Salgado
Y’know when you think you’re pretty competent at something (like drawing) and then someone just absolutely and decisively does something that makes you realize “hmm… maybe I’m not”? Getting a little bit of that, right now.