Hit with Inspiration

I’d watched my DVD copy of the Alec Guinness Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy on Saturday, and got inspired. I watched the second piece, Smiley’s People today, and while doing that also did a pencil portrait of Guinness as George Smiley, with his nemesis, the Russian spymaster Karla (played by Patrick Stewart – though he didn’t have many scenes – and no lines!) behind him.

(I’m also using this post as an occasion to start familiarizing myself with the features of the ComicsPress options.

Here’s the beginning sketch.