Wendell's odds and ends

Simple portrait of an old man doing his shopping. I was working with a new tool, a blow-pen, which spatters ink across the paper. Neat texture, but tough to control. I finished it with a black pen and coloured pencils.

Practicing with textures and shadows.

Big exaggerated gut.

This was a gentleman I'd seen while driving across the country. I thought I might like to render a portrait of him, so I captured his image and the setting in my mind and tried drawing from memory almost two weeks later.

My favourite holiday icon, and his saggy chest.

Portrait of a bearded, pipe-smoking senior. Doodled with a junky blue ball-point pen I was trying to use up.

The work in progress.

Some random characters for the Changeling role-playing game. I was trying to exaggerate the body shapes in this one.

Santa Claus relaxing with a briar after all his work is done for the season.

Two images I'd drawn for a Christmas card to Siyahamba, in December of 1999. They're made with colour pencils on textured watercolour paper.

Santa likes to wrestle during his own off-season.

A broad-looking Santa Claus, with doughy belly.

Another early image, of a fat gent stretching out with a stein of beer. Pen on white paper.

This was an early attempt at anthropomorphic fox artwork. A character sketch from an animation I created for a college class. Circa 1995, pen and coloured pencils.