Fine Tuning

At the beach and in the art process

Today, my drawing is The New Yorker’s Daily Cartoon! I hope you are going to go somewhere that has water, perhaps an ocean, this holiday weekend.

I have a little art behind-the-scenes story about this drawing, if you are interested.

Initially, the sketch was done on my iPad, that’s how I send in my weekly sketches for consideration. This idea is one I resubmitted a few times because I really like it. But when I looked at it last week before resubmitting it, I decided to change the caption. Originally, I used the words “hit” and “scream,” and realized that those words made for unintended tension in the idea. Here is that first submission.

So I rewrote the caption with the intended meaning and tone. Voila! They wanted to buy this version. Every little word counts!

As usual when the magazine wants to publish one of my drawings, I redraw it with crow quill pen, ink and watercolor, scan it and sent the jpeg in. That version is below.