The Boy in a Barn

I am not dead. That cannot be reiterated often enough. But because I am not dead via surgery, putting a pacemaker in my chest and making me into a cyborg, I am now in a painful and very limiting recovery. I am going to have to give up driving a car. I am going to delay moving back to Iowa. But not forever. I want to die there in the land of my birth, where a majority of my ancestors and relatives are buried.

So, unable to do much beyond sleep, watch TV, and draw, I decided to make an art fart that reminded me of home on the farm.

Using my electronic stylus and the Digital Drawing Pad app on my touch-screen phone I worked on the essential figure first, doing considerable editing on the face, especially the eyes.

I roughed in more details so the boy wouldn’t be naked or bald.

.I spent time refining details, my arthritis still showing in the result.

;I then used the AI Mirror app to smooth out details and make the boy less aggravated in the area of his snarling puss. (Look up the word if you think it is being used inappropriately.)

I then used Picsart AI Photo Editor app to put him in a barn and slathered more detail work on it with my stylus.

So, it was something to do while recuperating, and gives me a chance to show you steps in the process of making a Paffooney. (Yes, a made-up word and still not inappropriate.)