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Topper posts some of my drawings...

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Topper Helmers is a friend of mine, and we used to work together at WDI in the early 1990s. As customary for those days -- as the young man in the studio -- I was prone to doing joke drawings for my coworkers. What ever was happening that was current was usually fodder for me. I loved sending these via interoffice mail -- this made boring interoffice mail fun.

Some of the drawings are just roughs I would use to create some of my designs, and some are just doodles I would give Topper when he showed an interest in a particular sketch. And, some where just inside jokes. (Gosh, I had completely forgotten about most of them till I saw them again.)

My friend Topper has posted some of the drawings I gave him on a web site/auction site. And, if you twist his arm, I'll bet he'd even sell a few. He's a huge collector of art, and he's got some amazing artwork in his collection.

You might be wondering why all the red-head jokes, heh...well, he had a thing for red-heads. Topper also kept pressuring me to do a comic book, so I teased him with this sketch.

Go to Topper's Page to check out these sketches from nearly 20 years ago.

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craig said...

that made my day. awesome

tiffannysketchbook said...

red heads are certainly more awesome to paint. I get terrified when I have to paint a blonde model. Blonde is hard. Dark hair is easier too but cant get that nice vibrancy of red hair. this is a very nice drawing :) I love it when you update.

Ted Blackman said...

Gosh darn-it! That was the height of my joke-drawings-for-co-workers era and we were at different studios. #%!#**#!!

Nice collection. I like the true redhead figure model one. Ewwwww.