SPORTS BEARS
The following “Sports-Bear” illustrations grew out of a gift for a friend’s first child. I enjoyed the result, so I self-assigned to create a few more. They were hand-drawn, in pencil…scanned and digitally painted, using Photoshop.
As a kid I was a “pond rat” hockey player and The Boston Bruins were my heroes. It seemed a natural to create a bench-scene of bruin Bruins.
Another from the “Bruins” series…Poke-check Bear.
Living close to Philly, I had to do a Flyers Bear version.
This was the first Sports Bear I created…it was done for a friend who was having his first kid (a son) and loved the Dallas Cowboys. The final piece for the boy’s wall, had a blimp with his name, up in the sky.