the burroughs folio: mikey portman

finished the linework.  have to do the brush and fill in blacks but all the fiddly details are done.  and there were a surprising amount of fiddly details.  i gave myself the assignment but i really didn't know what it would entail until the memo landed on my desk, as it were.  i wrote it but i gave myself a WIDE BERTH on how to interpret & depict things.  sometimes that's a bad thing because i wrestled with this illustration an unreasonably long time considering how essentially simple the composition is.  the proportions of the page are awkward, perhaps...  i grow tired of doing the portraits all on this size paper, but i'm nearly through with this damned thing, so i can go on whether i can't go on or not.  it will be liberating to work on other illustrations of different (greater) proportions again.  i never thought of myself as an artist who Works Big but i've grown to truly enjoy having a fuckin' enormous canvas.  everything feels constraining now