Spectacles Illustration - IF

Here is my drawing inspired by this week's (Friday 15th March 2013) Illustration Friday theme, 'Eye Glasses'.

I really enjoyed drawing this.  The idea for this came into my mind pretty much as soon as I saw the theme.  I have had to wear glasses since I was around 3 years old I think and I'm pretty sure my little boy is going to end up having to wear them as bad eyesight seems to sprint in my family!  I have to say though, I think glasses have moved on quite a bit since I was little. When I started wearing them in the early 1980's, glasses were hideous!  You basically had no choice of style.  It was the Government-issue, plastic blue-framed National Health Service glasses...or nothing! There is so much choice now and they are much cooler these days. But a new pair of glasses still takes a bit of getting used to.  I remember even when I got the ones I currently wear a couple of years ago, I found my vision went blurry when I turned my head to the side!

Anyway, I took a bit of artistic license on these glasses, they aren't sitting flat on the table as I wanted them to look like they were closing in on this poor little boy, with his back against the wall.  I felt really bad after I had drawn him so I drew another picture straight away of the same little boy at the beach with a smile on his face (will upload later).  Doing these IF illustrations is really useful I think.  I have been hoping to create a little boy character to maybe put into some stories and by doing this and the beach illustration, he has inadvertently materialised! 

 

Materials: Pitt Pen XS, Promarkers (I finally found a use for the green one), and a little bit of chalk pencil for the glass.