Kal Penn portrait
Apr 20th, 2009 by J. O'Brien
When I started this, Kal Penn was in the news for leaving House to join the Obama administration. The sketch was drawn upside-down using my Jack Unruh inspired semi-blind contour drawing technique, resulting in some distortion. I corrected a few proportion and alignment issues and added color and texture.
Anything Jack inspires is probably going to work out well.
I love how you treated the sketch to make it an illustration–those chandeliers are WONDERFUL.
[...] was an opportunity to reuse my chandelier drawing from House of Hope, also used in my Kal Penn portrait as a background [...]