I'm not the most educated artist and sketching has only recently become a bigger hobby of mine, and it's all thanks to Skottie Young. I had the fortunate opportunity to meet him and Eric Shanower (writer of the Oz books) last October on a photo assignment. Wamego KS was having their annual Oztoberfest and had Skottie and Eric as guests for the festivities. Now having lived in Kansas my entire life I am kinda burnt out on the Wizard of Oz. It seems like the first thing anyone I meet from outside of Kansas does once they find out where I'm from is make some kind of Wizard of Oz reference. So naturally I already had little interest in working this assignment. When I found where I needed to be there were two guys sitting at a table chatting, various Oz books on a table at the side, and an elderly couple looking at the pictures on the wall. Thinking I was in the wrong place I found an employee working there and asked if I was in the right place. She informed me I was and assured me the two gentlemen at the table were who I was there for. In my head I'm thinking "There is nobody here to see these guys, they're obviously uninteresting." If I was going to be sent out of town for some lame shoot (ESPECIALLY AN OZ RELATED ONE!) I was not about to put much effort into my work, so I conceded to shooting quickly and leaving. Once I was about to bounce a couple showed up to see Skottie and Eric, so I figured "Ok, I'll shoot this a little longer because having at least a couple of other people in the my frames will be way better and I can still shoot quickly and roll out." Skottie ended up doing a sketch of the scarecrow for the guy and I was amazed. I was fascinated with how quickly he drew it and how cool it looked. After the couple left I spoke with Skottie and Eric for a little while and they signed a little flyer for me to bring back to my editor and I left. Once I was back in town I looked Skottie up because I was intrigued. Long story short, I was inspired and began doodling in my classes and at work. I wish I could redo my meeting with Skottie now that I know more about who he is. I collected a few of those scrap drawings and am including them below. The first group are all my versions of some of Skottie's drawings.
Dorothy from the Oz books.
Human Torch from fantastic four (cut off because it was drawn on a paper for work.)
Gambit from X-Men.
Tin Man from the Oz books.
The rest are random, most based on pictures I found online but a few of my own ideas.
Assassin's Creed 2.
Boy.
Captain America.
Girl.
Hood.
Spawn.
Wolverine.
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