BACK   (Above) At first, I had the missing moc filling the space at the bottom of the center portion. I traded it in for the teddy and blankie, indications that the little cub was off to bed. (Above) Tough to tell, but I first had the teddy in the cub's right "hand" and the blankie in the left, but I didn't particularly like the teddy hitting poor old Dad in the face. I wanted to make sure it appeared that the cub was having fun, and wasn't being kidnapped by those two big bullies (a bully in a frilly apron?). The moc is missin' because the parents are playing with a delighted, squirming child. By having the arms going in approx. opposite directions, it helps get the level of activity across. If I could show how the cub was really moving, the center of the M would be a big blur. I decided to have Dad looking around for the missing moc. [See the indications of waves in the paper of the sketch on the right? Those were made by the drawing that had been done with a rather heavy hand on the other side. All sketches on this web page are from my sketchbook. The top two were on the same page. When I started the process of positioning the Dad, I made it easier by turning over the sketchbook page and, since an M is symmetrical, I just traced the M outline and sketched in the different Dads. So those waves were made by me pressing down as I did all the graphite pencilwork in the sketch directly above it. This also explains the lighter blotches in the top right sketch; the light of the scanner bouncing off the shiny graphite on the ridges of the paper.]
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