Stylin'

I've been experimenting with different styles these days, which also means revisiting some old styles. One common misconception about art is that every artist has one distinct voice, but the truth is that art is never a stagnant thing. It's always moving around and changing. A single piece of art has the possibility of going in a hundred different directions and who knows if the final product is the best incarnation of that idea? I'm constantly struggling with which direction to go in in my art, which probably accounts for the erratic nature of some of the pieces you see on this blog. Sometimes you just want to do it all!

Above is a drawing of a friend of mine from a photo I took over four years ago. If you're curious, here are some drawings I was thinking about when I did this one.

Drawing #1

Drawing #2

Side Order of Fry Guy

For the second installment of colorful creatures from my childhood we have one of McDonald's Fry Guys. Thanks for the suggestion Lannice! I had pretty much forgotten about these dudes, but if you take the McDonald's association away from them they're actually pretty cool little characters. Amorphous googley eyed, glasses wearing pom pom creatures sporting socks and high tops? YES! I'd like to see a movie/tv show/comic strip about a whole society of these guys. And what do they have to do with french fries? Yeah I get it that their hair (fur?) resembles shoestring cut fries, but come on, that's a stretch. And even if that is all there is, that is totally weird. 

I probably won't do any more affiliated mascots after this one, but I'm still taking suggestions for other creatures to draw. My default is to just draw monsters that appeared in the background of Jabba's Palace so if you don't want to see that then let's hear those suggestions!