Babe Ruth Drawing for my Nephew

My nephew Ethan is a cool kid.  He's been totally into baseball since he's been about four, and he's also been a Red Sox fan since then, and now he's thirteen.  Not too many kids stick with the same team all the way through grade school.  Since I'm pretty much always broke, I've been drawing my nephew and niece pictures for Christmas and birthdays since I've been in NC.  They're probably sick of uncle Steve's drawings, but they always act stoked.  I wasn't sure what was left to draw for Ethan's birthday over the summer.  So I went old school and drew him a pic of Babe Ruth, baseball legend, and lefty like Ethan.  I added my poem "Become," to it, figuring he was old enough to maybe appreciate it.  He seemed pretty stoked, although he did mention "The Curse of the Bambino."  Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".

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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.