Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

No, this has nothing to do with singing, dancing, prancing, or the TV show. I just decided, after spending too much time on the last project, to draw something quickly. And thus I did. It was similar to the last project (The Workstation of The Future), in that I drew a quick outline in Photoshop, then a sketch in Photoshop, then inked in Illustrator, and then colored and shaded back in Photoshop, but this time the whole process took me about an hour to an hour and a half, and it looks cleaner, since I kept the lines in the foreground, and kept the right things in separte layers. Plus, the lines in illustrator are either straight, as they should be (using the pen tool) or curvy, using the brush tool.

As for what it is, someone observing some little flea-circus type thing. I imagine he'd be clapping his hands together and cheerfully saying, "Dance, my little monkey, dance!", but that's just me. Originally, I drew a full body, but it was out of proportion, so I put him in front of a table. And then I had to put something on the table. I thought about a ferris wheel, but it seemed like it would involve too many lines and take too much time, so two towers and a tightrope walker seemed like it would work. Again, I considered a unicycle or similar, but I figured I was just going to draw a little blobby thing so it wouldn't really matter.

So huzzah! An accomplishment for the morning!