Getting the chance to come out to California and intern as a sketch artist is a dream come true of mine. I get to work with talented, smart and youthful people while soaking in all there is to know about advertising for entertainment (which is the only advertising I ever wanted to know!). Though the dream aspect is amazing it only shines light on the fact this “dream” is based solely on performance and talent. A substantial amount of product is requested of me on a daily basis and like any company I’m having to diversify my supply to keep up with demand. In this case my skills in human anatomy and personal likeness is being pushed to the max. Now I see how legends like John Watkiss are born from this industry ( He even freelanced for my company before!) because it truly does take a mastery of the figure and space. Right now I’m not at an acceptable level with those skills so for the remainder of this internship I’ll be focusing more deeply on true anatomy during my off hour sessions. I have a tendency to make figure drawing that are more “emotional” than representational of form and it’s really crippling my work time performance. In the meantime I also have to make a point to do phone paintings and plein air paintings on a regular basis so I don’t lose my sense of color and light as well as produce new pieces for my own personal portfolio.Long story short, I work a lot but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Here are some phone paintings I did on the company rooftop as well as some figure drawings from sessions around L.A..

Greg Mitchell, Long ways to go