Red & Black

Here are a couple of birds hanging out shooting the breeze: I made this doodle early last year. It was part of a couple of pages of two-color sketches of birds misbehaving. I was just keeping myself occupied while waiting in a bar for someone to arrive. I made more doodles and added the striped jerseys in blue and red.
In the weeks that followed, I became involved in a book proposal for a small French publisher and continued the two-color strategy in my sketches. The story I came up with was about a dog who wants to sing in the Paris Opera.