Pencil for Hire

There’s this guy in San Francisco, Mike Gray, who calls himself a “Pencil For Hire” in both his site and his personal card. Clever, concise and to the point – since anyone looking to make a living on doodles is a “pencil for hire” anyway…

I’d love to be a pencil for hire too, I guess. If for no other reason that crumpling and tossing sheets of lousy drawings beats typing like crazy at a computer as far as jobs go.

This started as just another quick pencil sketch on my current Moleskine (yes I love those). Then I wanted to add it some color in Photoshop over the line as-is, and voilá. I want to find a palette of limited, vintage, muted colors to use on a series of drawings soon. This is not 100% perfect in that respect but is a good step forward for me.