Waiting For Food

Girl on the left was waiting in front of a taqueria with two guys that could have been her father & husband.  Older lady walked by another restaurant (why can't I remember), and I only saw her for three seconds. 

More stuff on the way.  Can't believe it's Christmas on Sunday.

Look who never got scanned.

These two!  Angry soup eater, and big man at coffee shop having a meeting with an older gentleman (not drawn).

Unhappy at SFO.

I'm not afraid of hamgurgers.  At local cafe.

Cook it. Write about it. Now, draw it.

Food.  I like all kinds of food, but I don't like the word "foodie."  I like making food, and I've been spending time most recently making bread recently because it's simple, and I'm not one to omit food from my diet.  Butter it!

Anecdote: I may or may not be allergic to shark's fin which was in a soup that I had in the Philippines when I was bout seven to nine-years-old (long ago), and the drive back to my uncle's house was memorable.  My neck became warm and slightly itchy.  Soon I was itchy all over.  I got back to his house to discover hives all over my body, and my eyes and areas of my face were swollen.  I was scared, but it was never confirmed that the shark was the cause.  The logic was that it was the only food that night that was new to me, but that's all for another time, and maybe a personal comic down the road.

On to sketches.

Picked up this old issue of Saveur magazine on my bookshelf and just started drawing.  Below is what happened.  Ended with a photo of an older, female server in Greece.  She was probably a looker in her early 20s.  What?

I don't know how many tomatoes I've drawn in my life, but add one to that number.  Pow!

After these first sketches, I needed to stop looking and think to myself what eggplant I was going to represent without thinking too much about the photo ref.  Something I need to do more often. I don't need photos to draw, but I agree with the visual vocabulary idea; it's something that you can improve upon by oberservation, practice, repetition.  In the end, how one portays an object or person, whatever, is up to the artist.  I always imagine what I'd say to a group of young artists who sought advice; I wouldn't be very helpful to them.  Sorry, kids!

Again I had to remind myself about "getting it right." Just draw. Work out a way of laying down brushstrokes because I need the practice.  That's it.

Wonky lines.  Who cares!

Enough blabbering about my own drawings.  Back to drawing!