[Art] Au Naturale - complete!

[moonvoice]

FINISHED! Phew!






01. Composition





02. Large spirals, wrens, fleshing out hair.





03. Pencil is done, ready for inking.





04. Linework with 0.5 Artline Drawing System pigment ink pen.





05. Blacking in solid lines.





06. Spirals.





07. More fleshing out, cross-hatching.





08. Right now I'm happy where the inking is at, finished the gun, the hair, a bit more of the face and background, and the wrens. At this point my camera starts to crap itself at all the detail and goes HO SHIT NO.





09. Watercolour pencils, pre-water.





10. Watercolour pencils, water!





11.





FINAL - without flash.





FINAL - with flash.









If you have any questions, feel free to ask me! :)

Comments

[dibeartach.livejournal.com]

Whaw, it's so cheerfully coloured for such a dark-themed piece. What was the thinking behind the colour choice? It almost welcomes a sick sense of humour - like mine ;-)
They also say that you can tell the skill of an artist by the fine work of drawing (or painting, sculpting, whatever medium) hands. The hand was the bit that stood out for some reason.

xoxox

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The colour scheme is Autumnal to draw a seasonal parallel - Autumn to Winter, or dying to death.

It has a dual meaning, suicide obviously, but also a young tree dropping its leaves in Autumn, sacrificing itself in order to be reborn.

I always knew it was going to be in these darkers. It's actually slightly darker than I originally thought it would turn out. Weird huh? :)

[scarletwildfire.livejournal.com]

oooh I love the explanation, I didn't pick up on the colors being fall-like.