This may be the most difficult pencil drawing commission I’ve ever accepted. I’m getting it done anyway.

I showed you this yesterday. To prevent (or at least to mitigate) smearing, I work from top to bottom, left to right. Left-handers can go from right to left. (All of us need to remember to lay a piece of paper over the drawing rather than rest our hands on it while working on it.)

Each time I work on it, I revisit the faces to see if it is possible to get a closer likeness. This isn’t required by the customers, who understand that would be asking the impossible, particularly in the second section.

Not sure how to tie the various parts of the drawing together, so I left gaps for awhile. Then I started fiddling around trying to mesh one segment with the next.

I added some sky so the snow on the mountains shows up better.

Two ideas that have come as I labor through this: (1) The dudes on Tunnel Rock are slightly larger and moved over (from the photo) so they fit better with the segment above. (2) There was a gap beneath the sequoia tree, which I could have filled with a yucca as the photo showed; a better idea was to put Charlie’s bass drum with the name of the band. (Jazzberry Jam is the old name.)

Yeppers, getting it done anyway!