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Illustration Throwback Thursday #11
February 12th, 2015 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Hoo boy. Here’s some humbling stuff that I thought was lost to all eternity until I discovered an archive of my website from 1997. The images aren’t too sharp but here are a bunch of old theme park caricature examples of mine from the early to mid 90’s, awkward lumpy bodies, broken-looking hands and all. There were meant to be examples of the live graphite and airbrush style we used. Hard to believe a few of these are nearly 25 years old:
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I was thinking a few of them were a little off here and there, until I actually read the reasons on the post.
You’re a great inspiration for us sketchers and a great source of learning and refference. It’s comforting to see how the greatest ones evolve like any and all of us.
Keep it up!
I remember these from the nineties. You can pick at yourself for whatever shortcomings. You have accomplished a lot and grown toward perfection since those days, but you still had true grit.