I had been wanting to try a surfing drawing, and I wanted to draw a good looking woman. With those two things in mind, I immediately thought of Karina Petroni, a pro surfer that I gave a couple of rides to in my taxi in Huntington Beach years ago. I couldn't find a surfing photo of her that would really work with my scribble style, but I loved this duck dive shot. For all you non-surfers out there, a duck dive is when a surfer dives under an incoming wave (like a duck does) while paddling out. I drew this one on one of my "backing sheets," as I call them. Since I work with Sharpie markers, I always put a sheet of paper under the one I'm drawing so the markers don't bleed through to the fresh sheets underneath. I also test markers to see how fresh they are and if that's the color I need at the time on the edge of my backing sheets, So the pages end up framed in black and little blobs of different colors. I think they look pretty cool, so I keep these backing sheets to draw on later.
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