Drawings for My Friends

January 22, 2008

Year: 2007
Medium: Pigment liner (.01 and .03 mostly), colored pencil
Format: approximately 6″ x 8″ or 6″ x 9″ each

etails: These are drawings I did for three of my close friends for Christmas/New Years. We had decided to make “admire statements” for each other, implemented in whatever way we chose to do so, instead of spending money. What a a great idea! The idea came from my friend Jamie Varon, and she wrote about it in this post. What I chose to do for my pieces is use a common quote in each of the pieces and incorporate words which I felt described each of their characters (which you may or may not be able to make out in the images below). I had no idea what I was drawing for each going in to them. They just sort of… happened. And I love how they turned out!

I chose this particular quote because each of my friends are experiencing great changes in their lives, and I wanted a way to express that friendship is important, no matter the distance between the friends. Here it is in type, in case you can’t read it in the drawings…

“Even though we’ve changed and we’re all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we’ll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we are not all still friends.” - author unknown