This is the first of a series of drawings I hope to do, all of childhood memories I share with my cousins and my brothers...our adventures, our discoveries, and our shenanigans.
For this one, I decided to draw a time we discovered a weird dead tree in my grandparents' neighbor's yard. It had pieces of metal and bottle-caps nailed into the trunk of the tree, in the shape of a face. Weird! There wasn't much of a story behind this one, but for some reason or another, I've always remembered this event very vividly. We always would drive my grandparents' golf carts around the property, so I threw one of those in, too.
The drawing itself was a blast; I did loose silhouettes first, made sure I liked their composition, then did the line drawings over them, preserving the roughness of the original silhouettes underneath. Then for the characters, I drew simple features over the original rough silhouettes and added shadows beneath them. And of course the clouds, those are there for some added atmosphere. Lastly, I added a layer of color and texture to the silhouettes for that sepia tone/texture.
Hope you like!
