Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Had a gig come up to do a drawing of a local celerity for a special event.
They wanted swanky "art-prints" to sell & have him autograph, along with his cook-books, and other swag.
Sam asked me to do a nice ink drawing of "Iron Chef Sam Choy!"
He's so nice... I could not say "no".
Rough sketch:
Pencil study…
NOTE: Well, I am NOT a portrait Artist, that takes a special talent to get a
good likeness of someone, AND (very important) make them look nice (not like a scary-cartoon-monster)
So this pencil study is the lst of many pencil studies… like about 5 or 6, or like... 17 or…or 23 attempts.
What it was, WAS… I was up all night trying to get it to look like the beloved "Uncle Sam Choy",
Recognizable, but not in a scary-cartoon-monster-kinda' way.
Sam wouldn't mind,
( he's such a warm hearted guy, he'd just laugh )
No, but I'd get thrown off the island by all his ADORING fans for sure! So, I was "sweating bullets"
over this one pencil drawing…. (whew!) what a night!
Jeepers Creepers!
Ink Drawing - portrait of "Famous Local Chef Sam Choy."
"Tiki-Chef San Choy cookin' at Tiki-Island"
Of course I had to put in a the "Tiki-Culture tikis…everywhere. Like the whole island: every rock , incise it's lava tubes, it's
totally carved with Moai, some finished, some roughed out.. a strange, mystic, volcanically active, geologically unstable,
unpredictable currents, dangerous reefs, spawning waters for many spec ices of vicious fishes, with legends of buried treasured
inside it's ever-changing, always eroding-contours…... a "Coco-Island kinda' place!"
Not heard about the legend of the real life Coco Island?
It's weird!
Here's a link:
http://www.amazon.com/Cocos-Island-treasure-pictorial-narrative/dp/9977540268
or:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sharks/island/legends.html
Larger than Life - Celebrity Chef Sam Choy!
Sam said an artist was going to do a piece of art of him
cooking over the volcano years ago, but, sadly, it never happened.
When I showed him my rough-sketch-idea for what I was going to try,
he was very pleased!
Finally he'd get his art-piece of him cooking' over Lava!
[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2015-09-26 22:23 ]
