December 29, 2012

The Morning Sketches of December 29, 2012

Lee had posted a status update on his Facebook account: "rummaging through your pics to sketch, be afraid! be very afraid!"

He had even posted a few respectively on people's walls.

Lee is a bit of a weirdo and he loves to draw, he took out a Crayola marker set and lied on the floor with his frazzled hair and baggy eyes as he put on music and sketched.

his preliminaries were done in light pencil and then coated with color and heavy black outlines.

He spent a lot of time looking through his friend's photos and had no real way of really considering many. Most of his sketches became crumbled trashed before I could get a hold of them. All of them unsigned and not dated. Other than the fact he drew all morning until and shared what he kept.

Lee's work, I'd say, is heavily influenced a lot by the people he admires most his friends, family, and artists such as Jamie Hewlett, Jim Davis, and many Japanese Animators and Comics, as well as American comics such as Marvel and DC.  I don't know much about art, but I have been friends on and off for over a decade and have seen Lee's progress from small comics to various doodles from notebooks and time spent alone that he'd share later at school.

As long as I've known Lee he's always been drawing. However, it wasn't until the past couple years after we started college that he's been more aggressively, or passionately drawing more and more. Things he sees, things he thinks, and obscure and not so obscure things that tickle his fancy as well things that he asks people like me, his friends, or family (especially his "kids" or nephews and nieces ask him to do). As far doing things for people, I've known Lee to go out of his way; but not out of his boundaries. He has trouble mostly due to procrastinating.