I did two versions of this Hundred Dollar Drawing.
“Sleighriding Buddha” for Nancy
“Contraceptual Art” for Richard
In general, for me, the easier something is to draw, the better the result. This Hundred Dollar Drawing was not easy. I appreciate the two-word challenge though!
“Fake Jews” for Hans
Drawing stuff like this is so fraught. A few weeks ago someone thought this $100 Copyright Troll was racist, because it looked like a racist’s caricature of a Jew (I argued that if you can’t draw evil trolls because racists use them to represent Jews, then the racists won). Some people will say this is drawing racist too, missing that it’s a satire of racism.
“2020” for Linda
First Hundred Dollar Drawing of 2021! There’s a two-word maximum for these (see rules), but you can certainly limit your commission to one word, or, as in this case, no words at all – just a number.
Acrylic Peg Pad
UPDATE: Now available for purchase here!
I asked Theo Gray to make me this 9.25 x 12″ acrylic peg pad (as opposed to peg bar) so I could do some quickie pencil animations on my glass drawing board, which I use as a cheap light table (see photo above).
Instead of the traditional acme animation pegbar, which requires expensive pre-cut animation paper or/and a $500 hole punch, I wanted 3 round pegs that would line up with a standard inexpensive 3-hole punch. I specified clear acrylic, so I could scan drawings through it, so they’d stay in perfect register.
It works great. It’s small, light, and simple. I punch holes in cheap printer paper and off I go. Here’s a thing I made with it, inspired by Preston Blair:
Clearly this could be better, but it’s the fault of the animator, not the peg pad. I need to practice my hand-drawn animatin’ to improve. Now I can!
We can make more of these peg pads if it looks like there’s enough demand to sell 5 to 10 of them. Would you buy one for $20? If so, we’ll make them and put them on the e-store. What say ye?