Gifts You Can Do Without

With Christmas coming up it's important to know proper etiquette upon unwrapping that inevitable, really awful present. In the nick of time, Dave Bamundo called with a quick job to appear in today's Wall Street Journal about the cheesy gifts golfers get.

Working with Dave was fun because he's a consummate gentleman and a sure hand at direction...besides being an inspired illustrator.

I include the sketch detail below in contrast to the final. The guy's first grimace amuses me more because the marks are spontaneous and direct. I'm usually all nerves when copying to the final. I wonder if digital illustrators have this feeling too, though they can take the actual sketch right to final; so I imagine not.