Justin Suffers for My Art

I want to thank Justin for all that he went through to give me some great resource photos for a sleazy character in the children’s book I just finished illustrating. Several months ago I picked him up downtown to take him to his place to photograph him as “Colonel Barker.” I had a tire blow-out on 75 North and just barely managed to get the car all the way over from the left lane into the shoulder on the right. We watched the perfect sunlight conditions disappear while we waited for Triple A, mere inches from the traffic zooming by us.

Then, weeks later, he posed outside in front of his house, in 90 degree weather, wearing his own long-sleeved white shirt with cuffs & collar, a tight fitting dress vest and a tight-fitting dress jacket made out of some kind of fleece.

The pics are: One of the photos of Justin in the ill-fitting historical costume, my pencil and paint drawing of his head (age-progressed and made somewhat villainous), and the final illustration. Thanks, Justin!
-Pam