Artifacts From The Reagan Era

Here's a piece from 1982, featuring a bunch of characters I drew obsessively, but never supported with a story. You can see Floyd again, seated with the cowboy hat. I'd always wanted to do some sort of travelogue story with a bunch of disparate, oddball folks like these and call it Jeff Pidgeon's Road Movie, but it never moved beyond group shots and logos.

This is one of very few drawings that I actually did in real ink (I did more involved pieces like this for my high school art class). It was a terrific struggle, and I abandoned the practice not much later. I dabbled in watercolors for a short time as well - I used them here, but I think I completely missed the point by trying to use them like markers. There's lots of bad habits here that I unconsciously picked up from copying the comic strips of the time. I hope I've jettisoned at least some of them!