Bar Moments

I do not think I have commented on your drawing technique yet. I believe you are using soft pencils, but it does almost loke like charcoal drawings. I hope you are spraying them with some kind of fixture so the carbon particles are not smudged when being stored.

But now to the content of this picture: this is a very lively drawing. It gives me a "Cheers" kind of feeling. Kindness and relaxations seems to radiate from the characters, but you can notice the dynamic that still surrounds the area.

I do not think Johnny looks so good in this drawing. If anything - he looks pretty bland. But Louis is coming through very well - even if think his head is a little bit too big, and his shoulders seems to be hunched in a somewhat unnatural way. Or maybe he just generally look too big compared the truck driver. It has all to do with proportions after all.

But having said all this - where I feel you really excells is when you apply lights and contrasts - and tries to convey the mood in the scene being depicted. And this comes through very well in a drawing like this. The first impression is a slightly naivistic approach, but as you study the different elements that this drawing consists of, you discover that each element - either we are talking about bottles, the bar desk or the frame surrounding the Marilyn Monroe portrait on the wall - have its own personality and structure. The drawing looks slighty disarrayed when looked as a whole - but the details brings out the life. This is what artists like Van Gogh used with great success - probably partly because it included elements of what we can call "folk art". And you are able to use some of the same elements in your drawings - so even if you are not van Gogh (yet), then you are definitively on the path to something very interesting.