Did some sketches of outfits that I would like to wear but do not dare. I like the way this one turned out. It’s done with coloured pencils in my sketch book. She could be a comics character; killing villains in secret by sending them black boxes with poison gas or spiders or something. The dress is far too nice to be given to a bad character….
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.
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.
I like to visit the second hand clothes shops. Sometimes I’m lucky like when I find a silk scarf from Moschino, no problems with size there, but usually there’s a lot of clothes that are not old enough or modern enough. So what should we do with all this stuff? That’s what I try to figure out when I do my “Recycled” drawings.
There seem to be a huge surplus of mini skirts. One way to make them a bit more useful would be to add more pockets and make a “wear-bag”.
Had some fun doing these sketches today. I’m planning to draw on T-shirts with textile paint and pens so I wanted to get down some ideas for designs on paper for me and my girls..
I’ll attack these with digital color some other day…
So instead of doing something sensible like updating a comic I have once again fiddled around with a sketch. It is just so rewarding to finish something quickly. So here it is with two backgrounds. 
For the moment I’m very fond of the shape of the small letter a, with serif and a heavy drop to finish the arc 
Something has to be first so why not a not so recent sketch.
I like doing fashion illustrations with a twist. In the “Recycled” case the idea is that the clothes are upcycled second hand or just old fashion worn as is. There has to be a couple of flies circling about…
I’m pleased with the pencildrawing and therefore kept it; promarkers and slight use of colored pencils.
Why does a pair have to match? We seldom do in the real life…
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