Chad Townsend

Happy Anniversary Mom, Pop! 43 years… incredible. Glad you guy’s met and had Me and Donna. My family loves you to the Moon and Back.

I’d be very Happy to have that many years with Mad.

Well it’s been a long time but, I went and dusted off an old friend that I used to draw and make comics with. This image is an indicator of what I have in store. the pencil piece is a character study…he needs a buddy.

A group of guys from the studio I work at went to Chipotle for lunch Friday. remembering Andrew Wilson’s drawings on Chipotle menu’s, I couldn’t resist snatching a few and giving it a try. I gotta admit…the paper is really good quality. If they made sketchbooks from this stuff I would be all over it.

well here’s what I drew….

Page 5 from the sketchbook. Black Widow.

well here’s page 4 from the book. 21 more pages to go. I am not pleased with this one. However I will share it….warts and all.

While drawing this sketch I felt way out of my comfort zone. It’s not typically how I draw characters. But I think by looking at guys like Bob Layton and Jack Kirby will teach me something, heheheh don’t know what but, there is a lesson here. I can feel it.

Well just finished the sketchbook made from Panda poo (no joke),  and now this weekend I started a really nice sketchbook my Mom in-law gave to me for Christmas. It’s 25 pages leather bound and has these cool plastic sheets between the pages for protecting the other pages.

I set up a couple rules to challenge myself and to change up the way I do things. So I am only going to finish sketches in this book using a brush. That means Ink, washes, water colors, acrylics etc.  here’s the first two.