Some clarifications, lest anyone think I'm stuck on drawing myself (because I'm not).
That pic of me in the circle at my iMac was done a long time ago and I've used it a bit, here and there.
Here's what's funny: THAT was based on that picture of me eating a hamburger, which I drew about three years ago and printed at work, to put on my chair when I went to lunch.
I still use it, to this day!
So that's all. Just a flipped/slightly tweaked caricature of myself eating a burger and using an iMac. That's all.
The rest of the stuff is DEFINITELY not me.
Regarding the "one eye" thing, people always tell me that!
Combination of two things: I ALWAYS sucked at drawing eyes. They either looked weird or inappropriate or whatever. This was back when I did more pencil/pen and ink realistic stuff. I HATE drawing eyes.
Then when I started using Illustrator about 8 years ago, I would doodle little things and put an eye in and never put another, just because I was "practicing" and it didn't really matter. Plus, it always looked weird to me.
Anyway, over the years I've kinda honed this little "bisected face" style that I always seem to return to when drawing stylized people or characters. The one eye is visible, but the other part of their face is (in my mind, anyway) in shadow, therefore you can't see the other eye.
Between that and how I draw my clouds (notice they're the same?), I guess those are my two "hooks" or whatever.
Also, a few years ago, Ron Chan was doing a style of illustration that was very cubist and minimalist. Many of the figures he drew only had one eye (sometimes none at all!), so that probably influenced me a bit too, to be honest.
Or at the very least, it validated or justified what I was doing.
Thanks again for the compliments and nice remarks.
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That pic of me in the circle at my iMac was done a long time ago and I've used it a bit, here and there.
Here's what's funny: THAT was based on that picture of me eating a hamburger, which I drew about three years ago and printed at work, to put on my chair when I went to lunch.
I still use it, to this day!
So that's all. Just a flipped/slightly tweaked caricature of myself eating a burger and using an iMac. That's all.
The rest of the stuff is DEFINITELY not me.
Regarding the "one eye" thing, people always tell me that!
Combination of two things: I ALWAYS sucked at drawing eyes. They either looked weird or inappropriate or whatever. This was back when I did more pencil/pen and ink realistic stuff. I HATE drawing eyes.
Then when I started using Illustrator about 8 years ago, I would doodle little things and put an eye in and never put another, just because I was "practicing" and it didn't really matter. Plus, it always looked weird to me.
Anyway, over the years I've kinda honed this little "bisected face" style that I always seem to return to when drawing stylized people or characters. The one eye is visible, but the other part of their face is (in my mind, anyway) in shadow, therefore you can't see the other eye.
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Between that and how I draw my clouds (notice they're the same?), I guess those are my two "hooks" or whatever.
Also, a few years ago, Ron Chan was doing a style of illustration that was very cubist and minimalist. Many of the figures he drew only had one eye (sometimes none at all!), so that probably influenced me a bit too, to be honest.
Or at the very least, it validated or justified what I was doing.
Thanks again for the compliments and nice remarks.
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