The energetic Martin Short

After doing John Berry, I have a quick turn-around to get Martin Short done (We go to press with the Sunday features section way early. So I did the roughs for this on Thursday morning with the finish later that afternoon.)
Martin performs live at the Keith-Albee next Friday (Feb 15) as part of the Marshall Artists Series.
The thing about Martin Short is he doesn’t seem to change — either in his youthful appearance to his full-tilt energy. He makes reference in the story that his comedy is like a party in his living room where he jumps atop a piano and entertains. (See first rough - which obviously I do on any scratch piece of paper as you can see the bleed-though on the back of a printout.)
The dancing atop the piano is the visual and sense of energy that I want to convey in this piece. Again Martin’s face is paramount, and all the rest will be secondary. That being said, I do a quick rough of the piano and the dancing body and will spend more time on the face. The second rough is a more flushed out piano as there is less I can fudge on that than the body.