Sunday, November 4, 2007

more commissioned artwork

This time, it was Tyrone. No specific version of Tyrone was attached to this request, so I just drew plain old Tyrone. Thomas drew Tyrone first, I guess to show me what he was wanting. His Tyrone can be seen in the top left corner. He then ran off to drive his car in circles around me.

I started off with the head and antlers. When I moved down to the shirt, Thomas pulled his car up beside me and stepped out. He stared down at the driveway and, completely flabbergasted, asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'm...drawing with chalk?"

He thought about this for a moment, eventually replying, "Oh yeah. Because I told you to draw Tyrone. Good job, Em." And off he ran, back to to the car to drive more circles around me.

When I announced that I had finished, he came over to inspect my work. Now, I thought I had done a pretty good job replicating Tyrone from memory. I mean, I'm not an artist, but I thought he was pretty recognizable as a moose-like animal, and I had the stripes on the sweater and no pants. I was pretty proud of it.

Apparently, it wasn't so great. After carefully studying my portrait, Thomas grabbed a piece of chalk and made a few changes. Clearly, I hadn't made Tyrone's antlers long enough. Looking at the picture of the real Tyrone, I see that he was right. Silly nanny. What was I thinking?

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