This is me and this is my friend Steve. You may think you’re looking at one of those pictures where the right and left halves are really mirror images of one another. But no – Steve and I just look a whole lot alike.
When Robbi and Steve were walking around on the streets of Chestertown earlier today, people kept stopping him and asking how I was doing. It was confusing to Steve, who felt less than fully prepared to answer the question. But it was comforting to Robbi to know that if anything happens to me, there is a stunt double available to step in and take my place.
His uncanny resemblance of yours truly notwithstanding, Steve is an illustrator – he and Robbi met in grad school at SCAD (check out his portfolio and consider hiring him to do some of that potential illustration work that’s been lying around waiting to be done HERE). And so, while I was at Dad’s Day at Friendship Montessori School this morning, Steve drew pictures with Kato. Some of their more notable contributions include a jet plane, a windsock, and several farting butts.
Kato drew this Rocket with many airplane wings on his own. But when he was done, he declared that it was not quite complete. Steve to the rescue.
Here’s why it’s good to have a professional illustrator as a drawing buddy. Though he was building on a solid foundation (Kato’s rocket drawing is most excellent), Steve’s contributions added that special something that turned it from a really good drawing of a rocket to a really, really good drawing of a rocket.
It’s that extra really that makes all the difference. That and an MFA, perhaps.