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In this image, I had been trying to nail an "idea" but haven't really succeeded in previous attempts - either the pose sucked or the message was deflated or mistaken. Inspired by the mythic Amazons who, at least according to ancient historians who were known to liberally exaggerate "facts" (or observances, since they likely didn't see it all face to face) to the point of outright fantasy (Heterodotus describing Scythians as dog-headed cannibals, for e.g), had one breast cut off so to better shoot bows. My intention was to illustrate a no-nonsense female warrior; someone who was a fighter first and perhaps had a history of it, fighting cancer long before she picked up a gun.

Just an experiment for a cleaner inking style, with a new inking brush from Ittai Manero. Since I had developed my "hairy, berserker" style of inking post-college, I had come to despise how messy my ink drawings had become: confused details, wobbly lines, shading that didn't reduce well or work with colour, you name it I didn't like it. It also resulted in a lot of back and forth, doing and undoing and because of that, long drawing times. So, over the last few years, I've tried to control my irrepressible "berserker" style and at least tone it down.

Inked in ProCreate 5 over a scanned pencil drawing.

Description

In this image, I had been trying to nail an "idea" but haven't really succeeded in previous attempts - either the pose sucked or the message was deflated or mistaken. Inspired by the mythic Amazons who, at least according to ancient historians who were known to liberally exaggerate "facts" (or observances, since they likely didn't see it all face to face) to the point of outright fantasy (Heterodotus describing Scythians as dog-headed cannibals, for e.g), had one breast cut off so to better shoot bows. My intention was to illustrate a no-nonsense female warrior; someone who was a fighter first and perhaps had a history of it, fighting cancer long before she picked up a gun.

Just an experiment for a cleaner inking style, with a new inking brush from Ittai Manero. Since I had developed my "hairy, berserker" style of inking post-college, I had come to despise how messy my ink drawings had become: confused details, wobbly lines, shading that didn't reduce well or work with colour, you name it I didn't like it. It also resulted in a lot of back and forth, doing and undoing and because of that, long drawing times. So, over the last few years, I've tried to control my irrepressible "berserker" style and at least tone it down.

Inked in ProCreate 5 over a scanned pencil drawing.