As Requested...
As promised, I'm interrupting the story to send you more dogs. Models graciously sent in by Hal Garstein (who suggested the whole idea of soliciting dog photos - Thanks, Hal!), Nomi Seltzer and Gabriel Mendlow. My apologies if the resemblances aren't spot-on. I'm drawing them direct in ink and doing my darndest. I hope they offend neither you nor your fine upstanding pets. More dogs coming soon.
To see how they're being used in the story, click right here to download a PDF of the story so far. This preview includes the image I'll be sending out with the next Not-So-Daily Dog, as a special bonus.
Next up, more pages. Then, yes, more dog pictures! In the meantime, please send me emails or make some comments on the blog. And yes, please keep sending in dog pictures!
Labels: Dogs, illustration
posted by Tom Seltzer at
9:51 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Tom-
I just checked out the new drawings since my last comment. You are a great dog-artist! I don't know if you know this, but there are people out there who will pay big bucks for dog portraits. In fact, a few of the members of my former painting group made their living, or at least their supplementary living, by doing exactly that. You might want to consider it, because you have a gift.
I think you work best when you work fast. There was a guy in the aforementioned painting class, who, by all accounts is a great artist by the name of Danny Schwartz. Sometimes, I would watch him start a painting and his first hour was just amazing. I found myself begging him (silently) not to add another paintstroke. Very often, though, he would go forward and 'finish' it and the life would just drain out of the thing. It's a difficult balance, to be sure. Well, you've got Danny's talent and drawing chops as well as his perfectionistic tendencies. I mention all of this because I think you sometimes struggle against yourself (as most talented artists do) and I just appreciate the good works that your initial ideas yield.
Chowder, bubbellah!
June 28, 2009 5:40 PM
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