It took me about 12 hours to draw Oppenheimer. Reading the book, "American Prometheus, J. Robert Oppenheimer", by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, it instilled an emphasis on Oppie's gaze and focus, on the grayness of the period in which he worked, and on the physics of the bombs employed.
I first listened to John Birks “Dizzy’ Gillespie’s recordings as a young jazz drummer and admired how fast he could play the horn. Drawing Dizzy was a great challenge. However, the more determinedly I sketched, the more focused I became and I knew I was approaching what I wanted to portray, which was very satisfying. In many creative endeavors things rarely come easily. A [...]
