Here’s something I did on a whim while I was waiting on the ferry boat to Seattle. My favorite aspects are the woman’s bulbous and yet angular anatomy, the rendering of the cheeseburger, and the pretty simple cat at a strange angle. My least favorite aspects are the dense fern fronds (I had to whack away at the 5-pixel outer line in order to make the element visually work with the other less dense things on the page) and the trailer, which nobody recognizes as a trailer even though I swear I’ve seen that very type of trailer a million times when I live in Alabama.

Here’s something I did back in 2005, but I still like it for the most part. Back then I was using Open Canvas instead of Gimp, and a little Photoshop on the side. These days I only use Gimp.

Proud areas for me are the hands and the contact between the generalized hand and the boot, the twist of the torso, and the paint application. Unfortunate areas include the collar and what it does to the attachment between torso and head, and also the aggressive highlight on that dumb ear. I wish I hadn’t done it like that.

The palette is neat to me; it’s a strange combination of my usually separate rustic, earthy hues and my florescent 90s go go boy colors.