Street Patrol and cartoonist maxims.

Large-format pictures are tough for me, because there's more chance to go wrong, and show off my shaky drawing chops; need for practice in spotting tones and blacks.

Did this one because of a quote from Art Spiegelman I googled for, and found a version on this page: Never stipple if you can hatch, better yet, use black.

By the way, guys, way to suck the fun out of cartooning! (Still, I'm a one time comics educator, and they have some good lessons. All the same, it does remind me of the cartoon about some pupil getting detention for scribbling math problems in the margins of her cartoon homework.)

Obviously, I don't subscribe to Art's maxim, but am trying to do what I do better.

Below is another resurrected watercolour from the files. I work on these a bit (this was from "copying photographs in order to get a likeness"), but sometimes they strike me as so lame, I put them away (I don't chuck much out, but stick it in the closet). Then a year or so later, I can look at it, and aspects of it don't seem so bad. I enhanced the flesh tones, and like the cartoon details in back.