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Voice of the Village Jackie Houchin The Sunland-Tujunga Art Association featured painter and muralist Randall Williams at the February “First Thursday Night Demonstration” held at Sunland Park Senior Center. Association President Pat Saurer introduced the artist for a demonstration of pencil and charcoal drawing, but attendees got more than a simple demonstration. Williams is an entertainer as well, and along with teaching drawing techniques he amused his audience with stories about growing up in rural Jacksonville, IL. Williams set up white poster board on a large easel and a table with his box of pencils and charcoal. He brought out his model Joanna Burke and posed her on the stage lying on her side, facing away from the audience. He positioned a photo light on her at an angle that highlighted the smooth curves of her back. Then he picked up his pencil, grinned at his audience and began sketching. As the image slowly emerged on his paper Williams talked about art and technique, joked about his life and career, and displayed various drawings from his own sketchbook as examples. Several people at the meeting The Arts We Celebrate Them All Sunland-Tujunga Art Association hosts sketch artist Creating a cartoonist Alexander R. Erdman, age 13 I have been drawing ever since I can remember. I first drew knights and castles - almost every day. I always had a cartoon style of drawing, but never knew it. Last fall, after I moved to Altadena from my hometown of Carbondale, Colo., I was asked to submit a comic strip to the Voice of the Village. I was attending the Tutoring School in La Crescenta, where Susan Boughton saw my drawings and asked if I’d like to submit to the paper. I immediately started looking around for comics that would interest me and show me what they were like. I’d never paid attention to comics before. Now I’ve discovered a passion! I started looking at bookstores, I talked with my parents, and I went online to search out the different styles. I went backward to comics of the early 20th century and made my way forward into the 1960s and ‘70s. I first found “The Wizard of Id” comic at a Barnes & Noble store. I knew nothing about Brant Parker (cartoonist) and Johnny Hart’s (writer) work. It was different from contemporary comic strips that tend to be more edgy and suggest an aggression that I don’t like drawing. I prefer the old-fashioned days! It feels to me like a gentler and more innocent style. The subject matter is funny with a quick gag at the end. The drawing style is “bubblier” with rounded faces and big eyes and noses. This gives the characters a friendlier and more cartoon-like appearance. An example of the present-day style is “Get Fuzzy” by Darby Conley. brought sketchbooks and pencils, but it was hard not to be caught up in Williams’ stories and antics. Some in the audience just took notes. Williams offered a number of tips on drawing: • Drawing is the basis for everything (the eye-hand connection). • If you want to paint better, draw every day for at least 10 minutes. • Look at things closely. If you see correctly, you’ll draw correctly. • Approach your drawing the same way, every time. • For proper perspective, use a straight arm and your pencil to measure. • Vary the thickness of your lines. • For depth, use all ten steps of gray. • Throw away your eraser, except to use for shading when you’re done. • Incorporate lighting in your art. • Learn to pose people. • Don’t worry about making mistakes; you’ll never finish if you Randall Williams with model, Joanna Burke do. • Draw like a kid - they think they At the 2009 Pasadena Sidewalk Chalk can do anything. Festival he was photographed by National Geographic as he worked; Williams does photo restoration, his layout will be shown sometime in portraits and murals. He also creates June. Williams also teaches art classes extraordinary sidewalk chalk drawings. to LAUSD students and to seniors. It just doesn’t match my sensibility. Even Gary Trudeau tends to be too realistic. He draws detailed backgrounds and folds of the clothing. I like detail, but stripped back so I can focus on the important elements that tell the story. I now have a list of cartoonists that I really admire - comic artists such as Brant Parker, Johnny Hart, Roger Bollen (“Animal Crackers” and “Cat Fish”), Bill Rechin (“Crock” and “Out of Bounds”), Dick Brown (“Hagar the Horrible”) and Billy DeBeck (“Barney Google” and “Snuffy Smith”). My goal is to create a long-running comic series. The last two comics for the Voice of the Village were just a start. Each time I feel that I’m getting better and starting to understanding my own style. With my latest comic, “The Spaghetti Frontier,” I’m excited to begin creating characters I can live with and make them my comic world family clan. This strip, I hope, can go a long way. I have lots of historical material from that time period, the Napoleonic Wars. My dream is to one day become a syndicated comic strip cartoonist in King Features Syndicate. I would never have discovered my talent for cartooning if I hadn’t been offered this chance to show my skills in the Voice of the Village paper. My next goal is to be printed in many papers and magazines as a young artist. However, I want to continue showing my work in this paper. I am thankful to them and look forward to a long relationship. | 15 For more information about Williams, visit his Web site: http:// www.randallwilliamsart.com. The Sunland-Tujunga Art Association provides free art demonstrations on the first Thursday of Continued on page 18
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