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Published: 2008-09-29 02:21:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 2302; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 122
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I absolutely love seeing new sketches by in my deviations inbox. His combination of old-school comic style rendering and cartoony stylization makes me happy. I decided to finally crank out a fanwork of one of his many critter ladies. This is Donna Plympton, "adventurer, con artist, and paranormal investigator."Here are the original reference pics:
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Given the relative lack of clothes she has in these, I made up an outfit based loosely on the bondage accessories she has in the one pic. Plus I gave her a modified Walther P-38 (favorite gun of one Lupin III), and a hunting knife, in case she gets bored. Or endangered.
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Oh man, those little scratchy lines are great.
Nice interpretation of the character
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I'm using this new sketchbook I got fairly cheap from a pottery for this new batch of drawings. The paper is very course, so a lot of my mark making has an almost dry-brush feel to it, which is kinda neat. On the other hand, it makes some of the solid fields of black look too faded when I scan them, so there's a trade-off.
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Paper types are such a treat to play around with... yeah, they all have their pros and cons. This stuff seems to be working nicely for you. Well, Photoshop is a godsend for tweaking the scars of a scanner
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Sharp, dynamic, and lively; beautifully constructed and fantastically well inked...
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Thanks! This is more of that Finlay influence trying to culminate in my work, which I'll hopefully start using and understanding better in forthcoming drawings.
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Interesting shape and pose to the figure and face. The way you did the hatching work is interesting too. Good job.
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I trying to work more gray tones into my ink work and create a fuller range of tones and mark making.It still feels awkward at times but I'm working on it.
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Well, the lines do read as gray tones, so it's working. The figure does have a very full, contoured, 3 dimensional look.
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Thanks. It's sorta the kind of thing Virgil Finlay did, using tons of parallel, curvilinear hatch lines to both act as a graytone and describe the form of the figure more clearly. Except he was a ridiculous master of it, and I'm only just starting to use that sort of thing. I'd also like to try and create a more elaborate graytone image using only hatch marks, like Travis Charest is doing these days. He's freakin' insane.
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Thx, I'm happy it came out half-decent. I don't try this angle very often so I knew it was risky.
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