4 FEBRUARY 2015
ON THIS DAY IN 2006 I submitted this illustration for the ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY assignment: chair. I'm not sure when exactly this illustration was created. I do know "how," however.
There was a time when I was working at the Booklet Factory in those early days, when I would take "a minute" (and it probably wasn't even that long) from my day and dash out a quick scribble. I would use a soft-lead black pencil. The themes were all "office-related." Sometimes they were corny office puns like some thing needs to move like a "hot potato!" (Remember this was the late eighties, early nineties). So, I illustrated some pointed nose guy (all my characters then had these huge pointed noses) in a suit (they were all office-themed, remember and usually male cos "suit and tie" is such a silly costume) running with his huge oversized baked potato. OK. Not really funny. So, I probably threw that one aside.
So, I carried around this memo pad and would take these "minutes" to dash off these office cartoons while I waited for the copier to run or my turn at the water cooler or something. Then I would use my allotted 10 "free B&W xerographic copies" to enlarge these small scribbles to 8.5 x 11. And I'd color them.
Like I did with this one I called "THE CHAIR."
