This started out as a sketch in the recycled series but the dress does not look as if it’s made of old rags at all. So I played around with the background making it into a foreground instead. It’s drawn with pencils and promarker for the skin and some colors of the dress.
Collage is fun. Is see this motive as an alternative madonna with two girls. What’s the fuss with having one boy about anyway?
It started out as a paper collage where I added a cut out drawn arm. Then I added letters and frame digitally.
I’m glad that I spend it doing this… I like type. I like fashion. Why not combine that into an A dress or maybe a pregnant B? So I sketched this up digitally.
Here’s some images that I find inspirational when I’m about to ink.
Bill Sienkiewicz has a black & white gallery. Here’s his “Vampire”. I love the energy in the strokes.
Another of my absolute favourites is Neville Colvin. On www.comicartfans.com one can look at high resolution scans of several of Colvins panels.
Here’s the link to this particular strip: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=699726&GSub=106509
I especially enjoy the line of Modesty’s nose, the thick lines in her hair as if made with a flat brush and the rythm created by thin parallell lines and flowing thick strokes.
All things are supposed to come in three but not tonight…
I’m going to post this for sale on Etsy. I’ve pencilled and then inked it with Pitts artist pen and Staedtler pigment liner. It’s drawn on a piece of Bristol Graphic Canson 250g/m2 measuring 15 x 21 cm.
I’ve tried to capture the characteristics of the comic. It’s was fun doing. I might do more.
And a detail…
I felt like doing some black and white drawing, so I did a sketch of Meenah to try out her outfit. I like the irregular stripes.
