2012 World Series Begins Tonight!
The 2012 World Series starts tonight at AT&T Park with the National League champion San Francisco Giants hosting the American League champion Detroit Tigers! To commemorate the event - here's a drawing I created exactly 20 years ago (yikes!) for Modelo Beer. I actually did a series of 3 sports-related portraits for an American billboard campaign - a baseball player, a boxer, and a soccer player. I used friends to pose for all three and it was a kick to see their images plastered all over the Los Angeles skyline for a while. Obviously, these drawings were blown-up huge...each dot ended up about as big as my fist. I usually work pretty small so I had to keep their eventual usage in mind while I was working. Detail below...