Dustin Pedroia Drawing

I forgot to take a good photo of the Dustin Pedroia drawing on the right before I gave it to my nephew.  This was my Christmas gift to my nephew Ethan.  He's a huge Rex Sox fan, so I found a great action shot of Pedroia diving for a ball, and blew it up and drew it for him. 

When I asked my niece and nephew to hold up their drawings for a photo, I assumed they would have their faces showing.  Things you don't realize when you don't have kids.  18" X 24," Sharpies on paper.

Drawing of My Nephew Playing Baseball

After doing the Bruce Lee and Taxi Driver drawings in the last two posts, I wanted to try a sports-related drawing in this new style.  I had a photo from the newspaper of my nephew Ethan playing baseball on the wall by my computer.  It was pretty small and black & white, but had great action and the ball was right at the bat.  It's really rare to see an action photo that good in a local paper, and it had enough shadows for me to do in my style.  He's a big Boston Red Sox fan, so the words in the back say things like his name and Boston Red Sox.  Doing full body drawings this size, the face never comes out quite as good as I want.  But all in all, it came out pretty cool.  He liked it.