[Art] Dear Little Brother

[moonvoice]

I toyed with the idea of calling it 'deer little brother,' but I thought that would be lame. So I didn't...

Dear Little Brother

Based on the fairytale, 'Little Brother & Little Sister,' told by the Grimm brothers.

The sister holds her brother, wounded in the hunt. She looks out onto the world, defiant but also resigned to a cruel fate; dependent on the bounty of the the wild to survive, and the mercy of others.









Detail of the roe deer. There are like four bazillion colours in that head.




38 x 51cm / 15 x 20 in
Original for sale
Crescent illustrator's board, technical pens, pencil and aquarelle, acrylic and pigment.

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[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Except in the metallic accents, I don't use 'paint' strictly at all. I use watercolour pencils, and then layers of coloured pencil. Everything else is fineliner, and then small amounts of metallic pigment brushed into the spirals at the very end.