Oh, delicious conté crayon, how I have missed you. It’s been years.

My reference for this drawing was a photo I took at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, WI this past October.

Goodness. His eye looks a little low in his cranium as I look at him now. Oh, well…I’ll love him just the same anyway.

Conté crayon on paper

A diver, illustrated from above, is foreshortened, so the viewer can’t see the figures body. All that’s shown is face, hands and feet, the diving board…and a wee little pool below.

This is hasty doodle is the first in my participation in a year-long initiative to produce and share daily drawings. It’s fitting I drew this in Eric Roman Beining’s apartment in Milwaukee, the very fellow artist who challenged me to take this on.

Title: Hesitation
Medium: Graphite on paper