GLUM COFFEE DRINKERS. NOT.
A while back, Vivian from Chesapeake asked me why the people in my sketches look unrelievedly morose. Why don't I draw the happy people, she asked, implying that it would improve my own mental health to do so. But the truth is that when people are concentrating on something, they just naturally frown. A very good friend of mine pointed out that when I'm sketching I look like I'm pouting. Little do they know that the chances are good that I really am pouting, having discovered how satisfying an emotion it can be. And I'm willing to entertain the possibility that any of the individuals pictured above is actually glum, given the condition of man and whatnot. The thing is, when people are smiling, they're usually bouncing around doing stuff, and they're hard to draw. If all the people above had been smiling, I would have jumped to the conclusion that I had stumbled into a Psychopaths Without Partners meetup, and I would have gotten out of there toot sweet.
Sparky Donatello
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That hedgehog in the header. His nose says Cute but his eyes say Kill.
Hahaha!
Love the cross-hatching as always.
That must be why everyone always used to ask me why I looked so mad in my self portraits. I think your little sketches are great, in fact, they inspired me to take my good marker to my last torturous work meeting. Those were likenesses, not notes I was taking!
New report says more than seven cups of coffee can give you a psychosis, hear things, see things. Even soft caffeine drinks the same.
Great sketches. I think that's how people look in coffee shops, so you keep drawing! If your friend wants you to draw happy faces, tell them to come to the cofee shop and hand out balloons.
It would take a heck of a lot more than a bunch of balloons.