#37 - eat at otto's! (09-97) 



. . . and so quickly as we almost look through the christopher sparrow window, we glance away, with hardly a further mention. amazing how i did not linger over my own pain. (i think, on reflection, that i did not want to make myself appear too pathetic. guffaw!)

otto's again. this was sort of a request comic . . . the folks at otto's wanted to see themselves, although not all were pleased, perhaps , at hows they came out, though i told them i couldn't draw, and couldn't draw portraits and people in particular.

nothing really happens here . . . nothing i hadn't done at otto's before (but because i was helping, not because i had no money.) the panelling is kind of interesting, and the wash isn't half bad. that first panel on the first page is poor. i think i was using a nip that was way too big for the task. in those days, of course, i was using dip pens, of various widths, and if one was clogged i might have to use a wider one than i wanted, and it appears that this was one of them. although i like working with india ink, microns, i fear, are the way i am going these days. i don't use an old-style pen--and a wide-headed one at that--unless i'm doing wash.

where the hell is nips keeping his wallet? don't ask. i don't know.





 

Posted: Fri - May 7, 2004 at 08:35 AM             |

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