Work in Progress

[pasithea]

This isn't doen but I likely won't get to work on it the next few days and I thought I'd beg for input on it. Trying sort of an experiment, working in Photoshop with lots of masking layers. Building up with flat colour to start and then layers of texture over the flat colour. Asthetically, I know the breast needs to be rotated slightly to the right and the hips could stand to be fleshed out a little bit. That stuff I'll fix when I paint over it.

I guess what I'm curious about is 'how does it feel for a start?' I'm trying some new (to me) ideas and plan to work with photoshop in ways I have not before.




As a side note, I'm curious about numbers. I've noticed lately that numbers are creeping into my artwork and it's odd, they're arbitrary but they aren't arbitrary. In this drawing for instance, 37 sprang into my head and it was the only number that belonged in the drawing but I have no associations with 37. It's a prime number and that makes it somewhat interesting but beyond that, I have no idea why it was important to the drawing. I think this all began with 4, which was of some importance to me (and, interestingly, is the first non-prime number, and first perfect square > 1)

Now I need to get ready for class and after that. Work tomorrow.


Also, yes, this is a design that I was looking at and going, 'Hmm... Potential costume...'

Comments

[chirik.livejournal.com]

Well, not really much to comment on it specifically, but wow... that doesn't look anything like what I normally think of your work, although I have seen stuff in that style before.

It intriguing.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh. It's not my style. It's sort of fusion cooking.

Letsee. the one thing I really learned from Peggy was how to use a colour guide. I understood colour theory well enough but only up to a point. My livejournal, website update, and this picture are all the result of taking a cue and robbing the colour guide.

The modeled shading is a style I can do with varying degrees of success. The other night, Jon and I were hanging out and I was looking at some Burne Hoggarth drawing books and started picking up on the art deco vibe of it. Jon draws really amazingly detailed modeling, so this part is part admiration for his work and some of Hoggarth's techniques.

The repeated archways, though simple, are stolen from Druillet. What really gives his drawings their incredible sense of space is repeated pattern. Everywhere in it, you see iconic bits repeated over and over at different scales and that gives it incredible depth. The other thing he does is often he uses the text across the image to draw your eye across it in such a way that you either start with things in the near ground or things in the distance and the text draws you to a different dimension in the artwork, tricking your eye into following around the page the way he wants it to and increasing your exploration of the page. I haven't really incorporated that yet although 37 kind of roughly uses it but nowhere near as masterfully as Druillet.

Lastly, I'll be robbing some stuff from Harpold. Not so much literally as conceptually. He uses layers in photoshop to build up supports like doing oil painting and adds in layer upon layer of texture in almost an impasto sort of style. The version of this drawing that's in my head has some texturing effects like that, though not as chunky of colour, but I'll be using it plus the layering ideas for how I build the colour of the drawing.

I'll have to see where this all ends up. If nothing else, its a good experiment.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

Looking forward to seeing the progress. :)

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Coooool.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

This is gorgeous. It seems to have a sort of archaic Gernsback continuum, Ralph 12C41+ vibe to it... I see her standing perfectly still as a slidewalk caries her through the coolly lit arcades on the 90th floor of a hyper-Chrysler building, spotlights gleaming off vast chrome-skinned zeppelins nearby.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Now you're just trying to push my buttons. *^_^*