Garish Tourists Touring Garish Las Vegas

One of my all time favorite recreational activities is people watching. I can be thoroughly entertained for hours as I sit and observe the parade of humanity pass before my eyes. My sketchbook and camera are always handy for recording some of the more unusual and entertaining specimens that happen to catch my interest. Above is a quick sketch of a bickering couple I saw trudging down the Las Vegas strip. I'm not sure what they were arguing about, but they were doing it loudly and seemed completely disgusted with each other. He looked like a giant angry owl with his pointed hair and large-framed thick glasses and she was dressed in schlumpy tourist garb, but had obviously spent hours applying heavy makeup and sparkling jewelry.

A few months later, a client was flipping through my sketchbook and spotted the owl man. He screamed "that's it!" and asked me to create a character logo for him to use as his company mascot. So odd.