Deliciousness.

I present to you my submission to the 2006 RedVines drawing contest. I found out about this contest about a month and a half ago through a scholarship website. Naturally I thought, “I’d better enter this.” Naturally I waited until the day before I had to mail it out to sit down and crank it out.

Yes, I did not spend more than an hour and half sketching it and then drawing it out. I’ll be fair to myself though, I was pretty busy.

I want comments about this drawing, like what you think it means and the drawing itself. Let me tell you somethings I already thought about though, too help filter the comments a bit:

-It’s not a winner: Maybe it might win, but I don’t think so because the drawings biggest problem is that while it’s interesting it’s not clear. What the hell is going on? What the hell does it have to do with RedVines? Who is that man? Is that a dinosaur behind him? What are those tubes coming out the beasts neck? Also, there are a lot of badass illustrators out there and who knows what awesome stuff they submitted.

-It could have been way cooler: If I had made it obvious that this was a robotic monster that feeds on Red Vines, which also happen to be it’s creator’s favorite food.

Pencils, all over paper.

I only did one initial sketch when I should have something like to ten to develop the idea. Looking over my one sketch I’m reminded that the final drawing always seems to lose something that the initial sketch had, even though it picks up cleanliness and finality. For instance in the sketch the monster looks angrier and the bald man’s face has more expression. Man I should have done more sketching that day. In my mind the bald headed man was putting the finishing touches on his robot monster and the RedVines serve as his favorite work time snack. Originally I just thought about drawing a student studying hard while eating RedVines, but that seemed boring when the time came to draw my submission, so I threw in a dinosaur looking monster. I went all hollywood on my concept with the dinosaur thing.
Internet, give me comments.