dickdavid - the artwork of richard [dick] david wezensky: December 2019

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Misfit Robots: 2019

This is a series of sketches that I started, where I pay tribute to the old or lost technology of my youth—juxtaposed as somewhat-futuristic looking robots. Clearly, in our universe of shrinking and advancing technology, there is no place for what could have been the next evolution of antiquated tech. It's certainly a fun project, that I enjoy doing. I started off with the printing press, since print is mostly dead, and it grew from there.

See if you can remember the tech that got replaced, and what replaced it.

You can find these and more sketches on my Instagram page.

Monday, December 30, 2019

Time For A New dickdavid Logo

I've started drawing under my online personification, dickdavid. I'm not sure why, but I as I was sharing more on Instagram, I wanted to put a little buffer between me and the work that I was posting. Call it a bit of impostor (imposter) syndrome, or call it an alias, but it's the identity that I've taken as I continue to develop my illustration style.

I decided to build a brand around this identity. To begin, I started with my signature that I put on all of my current pieces.

Then I created a clean version of the mark:

From there, I noticed something interesting with some of the shape relationships. The "K" and the "D" seemed to form the shape of a pencil. I decided to work with that:

From there, I was able to extract a pretty cool icon.

Inktober 2019 Finished

This year, I decided to participate in Inktober, an online drawing challenge conceived by Jake Parker. Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month. The goal of the challenge is to improve your inking skills.
Here is this year's prompt list: