John Pound Responded to Me!

So I sent this rough to John Pound who just happens to be one of the original and best-known Garbage Pail Kids artists. With John's permission, here is his response:

Hi Dave,

I like how it looks. It has a real nice feel--
Nice idea, name(s), drawing and use of color.

If you are wanting some feedback on painting, a few minor points:
I tend to paint (I use acrylics) with a fairly wide range from light to
shadow, to help sculpt the form. Like within the face flesh colors I
would do light areas, mid-tone areas (like you have), and shadow areas.
And I usually mix some half-step colors to blend those main colors. I
use a reddish-orange-brown for flesh shadows, a warmer color than the
gray-brown you show so far.

However, there is some nice relationship stuff going on between the
shapes and colors you are using, that my approach would tend to break up
into a too-busy patchwork of light and dark shapes.

Best, --John

I thought that was really nice of John to respond, as it is basically his style I'm trying to emulate (read: copy) with the Garbage Pail Kid I'm painting. It's almost like a young filmmaker getting a response from Spielberg, and was quite inspiring to say the least.



As you can see, I've added the hair on the kid, added more shading to the face, and started on the fish.

More tomorrow.