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The Drawing Board
Interested in illustration? Drawing images that accompany news stories is a privilege that news illustrator Thomas Marsh relishes. Here’s a chance to look over his shoulder and see how he does it.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Finish on David Allan Coe


David Allan Coe, from what photos I found of him, has a very diverse look, which despite the diversity, is consistently textural. What I mean is, he has a lot of things going on from the beads woven into his long scraggly beard to the multiple tattoos up and down his arms. These tattoos, I chose to omit for the most part, aside from a few quick doodley scrawls. With his signature rebel guitar, the basketball and the Easter basket, there needed to be somewhere for your eye to take a rest.