I do draw some pictures from models, photos, or other illustrations… but fantastical things that you can’t find a model for are what occur most often in my stupid head.
I was back in a classroom yesterday as a sub. 6th graders. It did look an awful lot like this, but I was holding another teacher’s giant pencil. This is the ski-jump on Valwood Parkway in Farmer’s Branch. I merely changed the railroad tracks into a stream.I taught all three of these kids when they were thirteen, but one in ’81, one in ’92, and one in ’94. Oh, and not on Mars.No models were used in this picture, though I did know several blue children.Done without a model, unless you believe 3″ tall fairies are a real thing.No werewolf girls posed topless for this picture.This classroom photo was entirely in my stupid old head, not in a school gymnasium full of snow.Even the mountains in the background were drawn directly from my mind’s eye.A lot of what I draw is merely emotional flim-floogery and provides a look inside of me that makes a portrait of me drawn even more naked and vulnerable than if I drew myself nude.
I’m currently in the middle of the flagship novel Catch a Falling Star, having discovered your work with Recipes For Gingerbread Children, then going back to Superchicken and reading in from the beginning.
Wow. That’s a fascinating reader’s journey. And whether fairies are real still has to be verified. The ones that are willing to talk to me all claim to be real, but my wife says I should not believe them.
I have driven on the Valwood Pkwy brifge many times. My wife used to teach in FB. Those are good drawings of what is in your head.My head can’t even make the pictures.
Yes, fortunately I taught in Garland and didn’t have to drive over the Valwood Parkway bridge on my 45-stoplight commute to school. We have driven over it before since we live closer to it than to the school I taught at.
Catch a Falling Star 
3″ tall fairies are not a real thing…? 😮
I’m currently in the middle of the flagship novel Catch a Falling Star, having discovered your work with Recipes For Gingerbread Children, then going back to Superchicken and reading in from the beginning.
Wow. That’s a fascinating reader’s journey. And whether fairies are real still has to be verified. The ones that are willing to talk to me all claim to be real, but my wife says I should not believe them.
I have driven on the Valwood Pkwy brifge many times. My wife used to teach in FB. Those are good drawings of what is in your head.My head can’t even make the pictures.
Yes, fortunately I taught in Garland and didn’t have to drive over the Valwood Parkway bridge on my 45-stoplight commute to school. We have driven over it before since we live closer to it than to the school I taught at.