Above is a drawing I did while in college - back in around 1987 or so. It shows Walter Payton, one of my all time favorite football players.
While the above drawing may not seem very...uh, good, at least from a technical standpoint, this piece has alot of meaning to me. Besides being one of my very first works in which I used colored pencils on black paper, it offered me a glimpse into the future. I mean, for the first time, I felt that I had the potential to do some great things with this medium. I eventually learned how to draw figures in a photorealistic style and spent the next several years perfecting my drawing techniques but never forgot that this drawing was the turning point.
Again, the drawing is crude; the color blending is very rough, there's not much detail, and there's too much darkness throughout the subject...not a very good composition overall. It's just the fact that, to me, it sparked some real excitement and a vision of what could be...
