As I keep getting older there are some times I feel as if I’m fighting windmills, or maybe they are giants and I’m just looking athem from a slightly different point of view. If I were to attempt to put this into a MINIon badge I’d have to redraw it (every time you redraw something it gets better) the lance/spear and the shield are too wide for the space… I guess I should be glad the old scanner isn’t working- although I have ordered a new on(smaller 🙁 but it should work. You can see in this drawing how much like non-photo blue pencils. I had started drawing one MINIon, didn’t like the way it was going so I drew this one instead.
I was fortunate enough when I first visited Europe (in my late 30’s) to wander through Strasbourg and into the art museum. It was there I saw a drawing that impressed me, and made me laugh. The illustration was for a French edition of Don Quixote in the mid-1800’s, It was by Gustave Doré a local boy who went off into the big city to find fame & fortune, or something like that. the print made such an impression on me, that I hunt it down on the Interwebs every once in a while… Did you know Don Quixote was supposedly 50 when he started on his great quest. More on that in the weeks to come.