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LATE-NIGHT DOODLING DEPT : 'Just a wind-down sketch before bed. Sweet dreams :-)

NOT MY ART DEPT: So one night long ago, Robert McKinson, the famed Warner Bros. cartoon director, stopped by the Imperial Bowl lounge and (presumably after many drinks) began drawing cartoon characters on placemats. I guess he used this as a conversation starter? Anyway, he was giving them away and that's how my Mother acquired this sketch of Bugs Bunny. She asked that he sign it to my brother and I. We were only 6 and 7at the time and imagined that somehow the real Bugs Bunny had visited my Mother's workplace the night before :-)

I was nineteen and taking my first drawing class. When we were asked to do a value study from photo reference, I naturally reached for an iconic image from my favorite film of the moment: Star Wars' The Empire Strikes Back. Horrible result! 4B pencil on bond paper, 13" x 18"