Bramble Vine Comics

Very often I'll draw from photos in the newspaper or a magazine as an exercise. This one in particular I did just before I started inking another page in my comic book as a way to loosen up. I just picked a random photo out of Time Magazine and found this one of Robert Socolow. He's a professor at Princeton University and the article this photo was used for is about what he and another scientist are coming up with in solving global warming.

Anyway, I like to do a heavy ink portrait like this to get the cartoon juices flowing. I think I was a little too heavy on the left side of the drawing, but oh well.

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