The Leggy Starlet herself. Had some fun with Copics.
Taking inspiration from Greta’s dusky looks, and Indian art of Kali and Shiva, I put together this figure here. The many arms for many drinks.
Started as a thumbnail sketch then to a full line drawing. I’ll fill in shading and color and background later. I’m going to be adding more henna style details on her hands and feet. All that will come later, time for an Ice-Cream break.
On the heels of the roughs I created for the old Kerrigan piece I have a brand new composition in the works! In case anyone forgot, here’s the old version.
I liked the idea of having this operatic scene with fancy background lighting, but I wasn’t getting the sense of intimacy and private struggle I wanted. So of course I zoomed way in to capture all the details. I painted this directly over the thumbnail I sketched and scanned. I tried to get a proper detailed drawing done on 11×17 illustration board, but the flow somehow eluded me. I was just going back over my old lines never quite getting what I wanted. Maybe I’m not ready to have full sized original clean display ready artwork and for now this has to be my workflow. I was just eager to get things going. This is what I ended up with after Day 1. The dramatic lighting will still get pushed, and the setup has a kind of Pieta feel to it.
Starting to tighten things up, changes some arm positions.
I was kind of stymied on this piece for a bit, the same face from two very different angles is really hard to do with no decent reference. I recruited the lovely Jen F. to assist me in a guerrilla photoshoot. The whole piece pulls together so much better now.
There were quite a few steps after this, but it’s kind of painful for me to see Kerrigan’s face mold like clay. I moved away and kind of came back closer to the previous step shown here. I feel like I’ve finally hit a lot of the subtlety of expression and gesture I had originally imagined.
I’m refining the details, and getting way more specific with the lighting. I saw some illustrations with really tight spot lightning that has a dramatic effect I’m looking for.
I tweaked the shadows and highlights, got some background detail. I think I’m done messing with the mood, now it’s just adding some detail and adjusting the focus.
Mar 122011
Early concept, and my last post for today. It’s a challange to make it visually interesting while keeping it recognizable due to the simplicity of the white costume. Yeah yeah I could do the slave costume, but I feel like that’s too much of a cop out? I’ll keep working it tomorrow.
Here are the (mostly) finished pencils.
Mar 122011
Felicia Day is a geek goddess. I’m hoping to draw upon her cachet here 
Plus she’s effing hilarious. If any of you have missed seeing Legend of Neil, go check out the web series here. She plays the fairy from Legend of Zelda. She has sex with Link to heal back his hearts. Now that’s service!
Just started on the bottom drawing here.
Mar 092011
