Trucker, Part II

Thank you very much for the enthusiastic and insightful feedback this week. Several people have pointed out the challenges of the plot here. Yes, how to render 30 years into just a few panels?

This blog continues to serve as my art school. The trucks are especially challenging, but so are the gestures and compositions. For every image posted here there are perhaps 3 unsuccessful ones discarded on the floor. I'm having so much fun doing this post, I'm excited to write the end of the tale this week.


A special thanks to Jay and Beth who helped me rethink and reconfigure the original version.

Trucker, Part I

I am away from Photoshop. Did I misspell wracked? Racked?

I think that in changing my template just now,

I inadvertently erased 10 comments. I am so sorry.

Peek

No need to comment. You'll enjoy this panel in the larger context of the story. Tally-ho. Have a good week.

50

I sketched that first panel on my birthday in March. It took several months to really get the image right. I'm so happy with it.

I am trying now to draw things that seem too hard -- like the bike and the witches shoes in the bookcase drawing. The results set me a bit on edge, but I've decided that imperfection will pave the way to growth. Look for more bikes and shoes in future posts.

Ordinary

I wrote and drew this quickly, just as an experiment.

Outtake. I lost a lot when I added the wild cookie as a backdrop to the drawing. Less is more? So I used Photoshop to restore some of the simplicity.

sparrow

This post took about 14 hours (conceptualize, draw, color, edit). It took 4 years of thought to render into just a few sentences. I'm not sure why I did that strange (ugly) lettering on the last two images. I wanted to convey the prickly, un-scripted feel of the moment.

Thanks to Jim Burns & Co. for the use of this beautiful image. Visit their website.

Time

This is a gift that I made for each parent volunteer in the baking program that I managed this year. Three times a week I worked with a different volunteer in the kitchen. We guided the children through challenges such as measuring, pouring, keeping fingers out of noses, and then of course, breaking eggs.

It seems like these days donating time is more difficult than donating money -- that first drawing shows time terrorizing someone. I'm really grateful for their work.