I always liked to draw and almost completed a fine art major at Siue
It took me 56 hours to draw this 35" x 56" (SIZE?) with graphite pencil on expensive fancy art paper. It hung in the University Center Gallery for 2 years and was the largest pencil drawing in SIUE Art School history.. I was offered $500 for it once. I shoulda drawn it on a Litho stone and printed a hundred of them. (From a photo by my friend John Wilkes.)
This was part of a series of "Legendary Engines" I sold as t-shirt designs on ebay and on my own retail website. I went for the most iconic engines among the most hard core motorheads: Harley Knucklehead (this one,) Panhead, Shovelhead, Evolution, Indian Chief, Chevy Small Block V-8, and Ford Flathead V-8. I sold over a thousand to folks all over the world.
I called these "Technical Cartoons." This is the legendary Chevy Small Block V-8 first produced in 1955.
REPLACE WITH ... Cartoons??????????? Santa Xmas card art - Band flyer art?
"Whadya want for Mother's Day?"
"Oh just get me a nice photo of you and the boys"
Okay. I borrowed a pro NIKON camera, lights and black flags from my friend and cinematographer (and musician) Jack Twesten. The Beatles parody was a good composition for 4 faces - and a huge hit with Liz and all her friends and family.
Another t-shirt idea I thought would go viral and spin off into postcards and coffee cups and beer mugs, posters, beachtowels and who knows. My drawing wasn't good enough so I had my pro-illustrator friend and former room-mate, Steve Deshetler, do it for a percentage of sales. So far we've both earned $0.00.
When I was a kid I loved Dinosaurs. So I made sure my boys loved dinosaurs, too. We decided Allosaurus was cooler than Tyrannosaurus Rex but there wasn't any good art of them, so I drew this quick and huge cartoon for the wall in their toy room. Huge like 60x40 in.
REPLACE WITH ... Cartoons??????????? Santa Xmas card art - Band flyer art?
I wanted to make a poster for each boy's birthday but it was hard to find the time to get home from work and I was on the road. ALOT. I decided to just make one poster party invitation for each boy's 6th birthday. These are colored pencil on drawing paper. about 11in. x 17. in. Batman was a favorite and he used to pose in the mirror and flex his scrawny limbs as though he had "big muscles."
STAND IN FOR SANTA CARDS AND OTHER BOYS' 6th BIRTHDAY POSTERS
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