Fathers

This week's theme is "Fathers".....a subject that means something very different to me than it used to, now that I am one.

Things are starting to pile up, and I don't know if I'll get time to do a new piece this week (I'm going to try though)......so, I have to cheat a little here.  The above is the very first drawing I ever did of my first son, Luke.  It was done while in the hospital, the day after he was born, in a sketchbook my wife gave me to draw in....to someday give to him.

Rich Hennemann, 2008
Ink and Watercolor



PS - CONGRATS to our own Kelly Tindall (and the lovely Dr. T) on their new baby girl, Tilly.  Your world has now changed forever, bud........but very much for the better.

Blacksad

Ink, charcoal, graphite, marker on a 9x12 bristol.

Sleep well my friend, and dream of large women

Yes, I know this week's assignment was Blacksad. But I needed to get last week's Princess Bride piece done first.

I'll get to Blacksad as soon as I can.

9x12 - Ink on Bristol

"Go ahead."

"Hit me again."

"It's what you're good at."

Blacksad

The task was to do the job in a discreet and efficient way.
And when I put my mind to it, I can be very discreet, and indeed--

--efficient.

She was impressed with the results.
So much so that she decided to retain my services.


Rich Hennemann, 2011
Ink & Watercolor

The Dread Pirate Roberts

Do you always begin conversations this way?

"I brought you a special present."

"This is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today... I'm going to read it to you."

Pencil on a 9x12 bristol.

This is true love - you think this happens every day?

- We'll never survive.
- Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. 


This week we have perhaps the greatest sketch theme ever......The Princess Bride.  I just wish I had time to do a sketch for this every day.....


Rich Hennemann, 2011
Warm and Cool Gray Copics, Watercolor, Colored Pencils

The Frog Prince

I've been reading Bill Willingham's Fables comic monthly since issue 6, and one of my favorite characters from the book is Flycatcher.  Willingham told a heartbreaking tale of the Frog Prince with James Jean in Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall, and he took center stage for The Good Prince story arc that brought his nobility to the fore.

I was going to design this as a playing card, based on the design of a King, with a broom in place of a sword.  That's why the F is in the corner.  But I couldn't make it work, so I just cut it in half and went with a portrait.

Somebody's been sleeping in my bed...

Pencil & marker on a 9x12 bristol.