#2 stretched cat
After that I wanted to do something simpler in felt tip (Faber Pitt brush tip pens). Corbis online image stock (recommended) provided the inspiration. The woman is based on an early promotional photo of Lucille Ball - she was quite a stunner in her youth! My drawing doesn't do her justice. The bloke is probably just some bloke with a cool fedora and a Tommy gun - a male model no doubt! Frankly, he wasn't lantern-jawed enough for my liking...but he cast a mean shadow! Lucy is thinking ''wonderful'', not to my drawing - possibly my drawing! - because she looks so pissed-off. It's a sarcastic ''wonderful''.
#3 meanwhile...
On to #4 this weekend...
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OH! These are wonderful and that's not a sarcastic comment. Love the kitty on the grass. I did one sort of similar a while back (only not with "gwash") of my kitty, also now gone. I should do another similar one only with gouache. I love the texture. :-D
And of course Lucy is great. :-D And the Dick Tracy guy too.
Nice variety! :-D
I'm hoping to make up with variety what I lack in style or theme. thanks Mary!
The bottom one has a very film noir style, lovely work!
Thanks for posting, we had a bit of a drought there.
Cheers!
I can't post because I have no group moleskine in my possession now, having sent my latest one off.
But I was starting to miss you guys!
Thanks for posting, IAN! :-D
Awesome Ian. I love how you included your music influences in the book somehow here as well, adding another dimension and personal touch. The cat, with the economy of space and the green is a beauty!
Green sponging is a wonderful idea, and it came it out really lovely. Me go Boots...
Talking of music Ian, it was good to see Radio Fleas back on air, and Otis Rush was a hell of a way to kick off - a rush to the head.
thanks steve. I may begin to regret noting the musical influences by about christmas! strange enough to think we'll be doing this at christmas.
cheers, johnny. already got next week's lined up. the otis rush I pinched from youtube, some old american TV show (I should have linked to it because it's from a period when everyone looked sharp! ah, but it's easy to find). I was looking for that song after the sunday scribbles prompt and it was good I found that version rather than Led Zep's. youtube has some amazing vids of old shows featuring bluesmen. in fact youtube is a great place to waste time - sometimes you'll find a whole film on there that someone's cut up in ten minute sequences. crazy place!
Great variety of work. I really like that bottom piece. Nice idea with the big shadow.
I love that shadow too! SUPER!
it caused me angst that shadow... for three days it lay on my desk, shadowless, just the outline of where a shadow should be - like a chalk line around a body in a detective show.
I didn't know whether the page could take that amount of ink, whether it would seep through or how it might blend with the ink laid immediately around it. on the fourth day I could bear the absence of it no more!
It's very successful! Did it seep through?
no. but the watercolour did (the next one, no.4) but only slightly you might not notice. with the shadow one, I did two coats letting it dry in between.
cool, thanks for the info! :-D
Nice
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