Sunday, April 24, 2011

The Kool Aid Guy

A birthday card for a friend. I knew I wanted to do the Kool Aid Guy and I knew this was the pose I wanted to use. Unfortunately while this image is ubiquitous on the web (the original has him holding a pitcher of Kool Aid in his right hand), I could find no reference as to who the original artist was. So instead I had to credit the creator of the Kool Aid Guy, Marvin Plotts.

The drawing took about 45 minutes; about 15 minutes for the pencils and about a half hour for the inks....

The rest of it (digital colors, design elements, etc.) took about an hour or so.

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