They played off of each other most of the night at the Society of Illustrators. The routine is the same, give the room equal face time, and try not to give one side two backsides of the head. Sometimes you benefit from your place in the room.—Dominick
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Had a great night drawing two wonderful models last Thursday at the Society of Illustrators. Reign Apiim of Palais Apiim looked like a modern day Cleopatra. More to come.—Dominick
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I was happy to have arrived for the drawing session early—or more precisely, the session had started late—two weeks ago. I got a few drawings in before we cleaned up.—Dominick
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Here is a random drawing of an animal (not sure exactly which kind, I’ll have to check my notes) that I made in a sketchbook a few years ago. Black and red marker. ~Despina
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So if I would have been asked, the wild dog on the safari I took this past summer at the Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World, I would have called it a hyena. Two things are important—I have taken this safari a few times in the past and I am surrounded by small things that love animals—I think […]
View post →In my yard there are two planters in the shape of elephants. By the shape of their ears I can tell one is African and the other is Indian. The African elephant takes care of my geranium plant. I like to fill my home and yard with things that remind me of people that […]
View post →Did you know aside from the voice, flutes are the earliest known musical instruments? Every night I play lullaby’s from around the world to soothe my boys to sleep. It always fascinates me how global this instrument is and how magical their sound can be. Above is a study of flutes I found in the American […]
View post →Ink drawing of an african performer. Eddie Peña
View post →I illustrated a few ANANSI Stories a while back. An example of one of the illustrations is in the One Watercolor A Day book. For the title of the book I made some watercolor letters. It seemed to fit in well with the rest of the stories and the illustrations and I enjoy making patterns. […]
View post →I’ve recently been watching African drumming performances and I did my best to capture the intense look on this drummer’s face. Wow. –Despina
View post →A drawing/watercolor I made for a book I wanted to illustrate, Anansi Stories. The Anansi myth is from Africa. Basically Anansi is a trouble maker. He is mainly represented as a spider, but I thought it might be fun to make him human. In this picture/drawing Anansi is collecting up all the common sense in […]
View post →” We may be able to tell the story of departed nations and conquering chieftains who have added pages of tears and blood to the world’s history; but our education is deficient if we are perfectly ignorant how to guide the little feet that are springing up so gladly in our path …” This was […]
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