Today I am about a third of the way through another pen and ink drawing, this one of my god-daughter, Lily... Although Lily is usually smiling and showing off, I liked her ambiguous expression in this image... Yesterday noon, Lily and her Mom, Sarah, showed up at the studio with a half-hour to kill before their lunch date (one of Sarah's costume design grad students was hired by the Metropolitan Opera, and they were going to have a goodbye luncheon across the street)...

So I asked Lily to model for me and designed this drawing in a half-day, by far my fastest drawing design effort to date! By around six PM I got my drawing machine going and it began following the paths I'd defined, dragging another fine-point pen over a 66 x 45 inch sheet of paper...

Here's a brief (1 minute and about 1mb streaming download) video of the "Lily" drawing in progress -- press the '>' play button to begin...

Here's a tiny version of my source image:

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Here's a shot of the drawing underway:

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Hope you enjoy this one!

-- Mike

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Yesterday (June 13, 2006) I completed a smaller drawing of two children, Ethan and Arianna. Pen and ink, but a denser line pattern -- about 140 hours to complete on 45 x 31 inch Arches 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper. Here is a shot of the drawing plus some details -- click the photos to enlarge...

-- Mike

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