Donuts!

Burt is a level 1 Donut Artist. His icing penmanship is exemplary and we look forward to big things from him in the future. 

The Making of "Donuts R My Life"...

Here are some process pics from my Donut Cafe picture I posted last week:

First, my reproduction of "Tennis Is My Life" Alf, which is an important factor to visualise and also a good coda to live by.

Second is the rough thumbnail. I drew this about 4 inches high, I always get a better composition if I start small and blow it up to work from.

Next is the actual artwork, mid-way through inking. Inking tends to be my favourite part of the whole job, I treat the page like a little zen garden and work through it carefully, until I muck something up and curse myself for my foolhardy pursuit of a faultless piece of artwork. I am nature's fool.

Finally the finished picture. The colours took a while because of the little details n' donuts but I'm really happy with the end result. Hopefully I'll do more silly picture like this soon.

Donuts R My Life.

There's a story behind this silly nonsense. Back in the extreme 90's I had a small Alf (Alien Life Form) toy, holding a tennis racket and wearing a red waistcoat, emblazoned with the legend "Tennis Is My Life". Whether or not tennis was that important to Alf is a discussion for another day, but the phrase always made me laugh and I kept it snug in my back pocket to use later in the perfect context.

That context obviously is a tree frog that runs a small donut cafe (obviously).

Donuts.

Had fun this afternoon, inking all the donuts in Gordon Bennett's Donut Emporium.