{"id":699,"date":"2009-11-18T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=699"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:06:23","slug":"dating-disaster-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/11\/18\/dating-disaster-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating Disaster Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"restaurant-sketch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sketches seem to be fairly popular (well, I like them) so I’m putting a couple more up today. These are from a series of dating disaster illustrations I did for Boulder Magazine<\/strong><\/em>. I wish I got assignments like this every day. I love drawing uncomfortable situations and fat people. I think if I could draw angst ridden chubbies every day I would be in Hog Heaven!<\/strong><\/p>\n

See the finish here<\/a>, and I blogged about it earlier here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"restaurant-gal\"<\/a>I did the first drawing on some tracing paper. I was probably refining a sketchbook sketch. The drawing of the woman was done separately with a roller ball pen in a sketchbook. I scanned them and married them together and printed them on bristol in light blue. Then I used markers for the finished ink. I used to turn my nose up at markers, but the brush markers and Micron pens are terrific nowadays. It’s also getting hard finding decent bottled ink and brushes.<\/p>\n

Finally, the image was colored in Photoshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sketches seem to be fairly popular (well, I like them) so I’m putting a couple more up today. These are from a series of dating disaster illustrations I did for Boulder Magazine. 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