Another athlete courtesy of Sports Illustrated.  In this case, Donovan McNabb doing what he does best: scramble out of trouble.

This sketch started out as just a study of his arm and hand, but I thought I needed to give the disembodied arm a little bit of context; so I sketched out the rest of his body.  Maybe if I do enough drawings of individual parts, I’ll be able to put them together into a cohesive whole someday.  This method was good enough for students during The Renaissance; it should work for me.  Right?

This is what the rest of the page looks like:

Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers! What a great game. I thought the Steelers were going to run away with it, but nice job by the Cardinals to make it close. Like most Americans on Superbowl Sunday, I celebrated by eating and drinking too much.

This sketch was done with a Pilot G2 mechanical pencil (.05 lead; ‘B’ softness I think); mainly because I’m too fattened-up and lazy after all the food and drink today to get out my good pencils.  Ironic, because this sketch probably would have taken less time with a wider lead.  On the upside: no sharpening required.

Now that football season is over, I can officially start the baseball season countdown.. 10 days until spring training. Summer is just around the corner!