Cartoon shark

[HayTay]

You're improving very quickly Eric. The shark is a good start on the path to developing your freehand skills.

If that shark's smile gets much wider you'll have a fine drawing of a decapitated shark.

Seriously though, good work.

[ontos]

Nice job Eric, I like it.

[iamtheblues]

Nice work, Eric - it made me smile, too.
Saludos,
Bob.

[bcire68]

Thanks for all the kind comments. I have to say that I'm pretty pleased with it myself.

I think that when I get off work tonight, I'm going to try to do a cartoon that I've seen in the book, but not try to reproduce it from the book. In other words, I have an idea of how to draw the cartoon, but I'm going to draw it without any visual reference. So it should be more my own work. I am starting to think about how I would represent a thing in a cartoon-ish manner. Weather or not I can actually represent it is another manner altogether, but I do think it is a big step in my development. Artist's eye and all that.

I'm going to have to start carrying around a pencil and paper so I can doodle more.

Eric

[handrawn]

way to go Eric

If that shark's smile gets much wider you'll have ..

....used a very well established cartoon technique - I believe some call it 'out of bounds' ...

[HayTay]

Right on, handrawn. Though, I prefer to refer to the technique as 'visual hyperbole'.